Data Lakehouse Field Specialist (Iceberg) – Pre-Sales Expert

Cloudera; Texas; Remote; USD 146,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO Policy

Unplugged Days

Flexible WFH Policy

Mental & Physical Wellness programs

Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Continued Career Development

Comprehensive Benefits

Paid Volunteer Time

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Cloudera is seeking a Field Specialist - Data Lakehouse (Apache Iceberg) to join our global team. In this pre-sales role you will design scalable cloud-native lakehouse architectures and guide PoCs with BI and AI analytics for enterprise customers.

You will lead engagements, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and influence product direction while travel to customer sites roughly once per month.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and implementing mission-critical data warehousing and BI use cases.
• Hands-on designs for lakehouses on Iceberg and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with SQL engines and open table formats.
• Architecting production data deployments across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Proven PoCs and MVPs that lead to enterprise-grade deployments.
• Data modeling, governance, data quality, and security considerations for trusted data.
• Excellent presentation skills for diverse audiences, from developers to executives.
• Ability to define migration/modernization roadmaps to open data lakehouses.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements by designing scalable, cloud-native lakehouse architectures and business outcomes.
• Support PoCs, solution sizing, and adoption for BI and AI analytics.
• Troubleshoot complex issues related to query performance and data federation; guide escalations.
• Drive internal/external technical enablement and share best practices in data warehousing.
• Influence product roadmap with customer feedback for product/engineering teams.
• Act as a Cloudera evangelist; participate in events and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering to align on customer success.

Skills

Data lakehouse

BI analytics

Executive engagement

PoCs & MVPs

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Trino

Apache Hive

Apache Impala

Snowflake SnowPro Core

Job description

Cloudera is seeking a Field Specialist - Data Lakehouse (Apache Iceberg) to join our global team. In this pre-sales role you will design scalable cloud-native lakehouse architectures and guide PoCs with BI and AI analytics for enterprise customers.

You will lead engagements, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and influence product direction while travel to customer sites roughly once per month.