APAC Senior Real-Time Data & AI Solutions Architect

risingwave; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

RisingWave is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead APAC customer engagements from discovery through production rollout. You will design low-latency, scalable architectures that connect RisingWave with Kafka/Pulsar, cloud platforms, and data systems, while guiding onboarding and migrations.

You will work closely with Product and Engineering to translate field patterns into roadmap input and reference architectures, traveling for customer engagements as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, Technical Consulting, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
• Hands-on experience with streaming, distributed data systems, event-driven architecture, or modern data infrastructure. Experience with Kafka or Pulsar and a stream-processing framework is especially useful.
• Strong SQL and working proficiency in at least one of Python, Java, Go, or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture workshops, technical discovery, solution design, PoCs/PoVs, benchmarks, security reviews, RFPs, and executive readouts.
• Design scalable, low-latency architectures connecting RisingWave with Kafka or Pulsar, operational databases, cloud platforms, data warehouses, lakehouses, and serving systems.
• Translate latency, throughput, resilience, compliance, and cost requirements into a clear architecture and success plan.
• Communicate with equal credibility in an engineering deep dive and a CTO or business stakeholder conversation.
• Guide technical onboarding and production rollout, including deployment architecture, migration and cutover planning, capacity modeling, and performance tuning.
• Advise on streaming SQL, data modeling, CDC, schema evolution, partitioning, observability, and operational readiness.
• Troubleshoot complex pipelines end to end and coordinate with Product and Engineering when deeper product expertise is needed.
• Remain the customer’s technical advocate as workloads expand and new use cases emerge.

Skills

Streaming systems

SQL proficiency

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

English communication

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

Debezium

Kafka Connect

Iceberg

Job description

RisingWave is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead APAC customer engagements from discovery through production rollout. You will design low-latency, scalable architectures that connect RisingWave with Kafka/Pulsar, cloud platforms, and data systems, while guiding onboarding and migrations.

You will work closely with Product and Engineering to translate field patterns into roadmap input and reference architectures, traveling for customer engagements as needed.