Solutions Architect – Streaming & Cloud Platform

International Business Machines Corporation; City of Westminster; Presencial; GBP 75.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

IBM is seeking a Solutions Architect to drive adoption and customer health post-sale for Confluent investments. You will own a portfolio of customers, lead architecture discussions, and guide them on streaming, cloud, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities include health assessments, roadmap alignment, and cross-functional orchestration with Sales, CS, Support, Product, and Engineering. Strong Java/Scala/Python skills and hands-on experience with Kafka and Confluent are required.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Engineering or related field.
• 2–4 years in technical, customer-facing roles such as Solutions Engineering or Enterprise Data Architecture.
• Fluency in English; additional languages are a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as the technical PoC across the post-sales lifecycle and lead architecture discussions.
• Identify underused capabilities and define a prioritized technical roadmap with owners.
• Drive technical health assessments and align recommendations with consumption goals.
• Coordinate across Sales, Customer Success, Support, Product and Engineering to support customer vision.

Conocimientos

Technical Leadership

Kafka

Confluent Platform

Flink

Java/Scala/Python

Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP

Kubernetes

Security: mTLS/OAuth

Data Privacy

Enterprise Architecture

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Herramientas

Apache Kafka

ksqlDB

Schema Registry

Confluent Cloud

Descripción del empleo

IBM is seeking a Solutions Architect to drive adoption and customer health post-sale for Confluent investments. You will own a portfolio of customers, lead architecture discussions, and guide them on streaming, cloud, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities include health assessments, roadmap alignment, and cross-functional orchestration with Sales, CS, Support, Product, and Engineering. Strong Java/Scala/Python skills and hands-on experience with Kafka and Confluent are required.