Senior Kafka & Streaming Solutions Architect

re-zoo-me; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Global Sales is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to join our Customer Success and Professional Services team. You will help customers leverage streaming architectures and applications to achieve business results, working directly with customers to provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise around Apache Kafka and related data platforms.

You will develop best practices, gather critical product feedback, and help customers optimize deployments while building trusted

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing, building, and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions, ideally using Apache Kafka.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple B2B infrastructure software development projects, including driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention.
• Experience operating Linux (RedHat/Debian) and using cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) for high-throughput systems.
• Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting.
• Experience with distributed systems (Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.).
• Strong desire to tackle hard technical problems with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain tricky issues clearly.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% to meet with customers.

Responsibilities

• Helping a customer determine their platform and/or application strategy for moving to real-time, event-based operations.
• Providing feedback to Product and Engineering groups.
• Building tooling to push technical boundaries and improve delivery quality.
• Testing performance and functionality of new components developed by Engineering.
• Writing or editing documentation and knowledge base articles based on customer experiences.
• Honing your skills, building applications, or trying out new product features.
• Participating in community and industry events.

Skills

Big Data & Stream Processing

Apache Kafka

Distributed Systems

Linux & Cloud Platforms

Java & JVM Tuning

Client-facing Communication

Travel up to 20%

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Storm

Cassandra

Job description

IBM Global Sales is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to join our Customer Success and Professional Services team. You will help customers leverage streaming architectures and applications to achieve business results, working directly with customers to provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise around Apache Kafka and related data platforms.

You will develop best practices, gather critical product feedback, and help customers optimize deployments while building trusted