Remote Data Lakehouse Field Specialist

Cloudera; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO Policy

Unplugged Days

Flexible WFH Policy

Wellness programs

Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Continued Career Development

Comprehensive Benefits

Volunteer Time

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Cloudera is seeking a Field Specialist, Data Lakehouse to join our global sales engineering team. You will design scalable, cloud-native lakehouse architectures and present business outcomes to technical and executive stakeholders.

In this customer-facing role, you will drive PoCs, solution sizing, and adoption for self-serve BI, open table formats like Iceberg, and AI-ready data analytics across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading data warehousing and BI use cases across industries.
• Experience building enterprise-grade lakehouses on cloud architectures.
• Hands-on with Iceberg, Trino, Hive, and Impala.
• Experience deploying hybrid/multi-cloud data deployments.
• Ability to run PoCs and MVPs for production deployments.
• Experience with data modeling, security, quality, governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements with scalable cloud-native lakehouse architectures.
• Support PoCs, solution sizing, and adoption for BI and AI use cases.
• Troubleshoot complex issues on query performance and concurrency.
• Develop educational materials and share best practices.
• Influence product roadmap with customer feedback.
• Act as Cloudera evangelist at events and in the community.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering for customer success.

Skills

BI/Analytics expertise

Data lakehouse design

Cloud-native architectures

SQL engines & Iceberg

PoCs & MVPs

Data modeling

Data governance

Presentation skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Trino

Apache Hive

Apache Impala

dbt

Snowflake

Google BigQuery

Airflow

Job description

Cloudera is seeking a Field Specialist, Data Lakehouse to join our global sales engineering team. You will design scalable, cloud-native lakehouse architectures and present business outcomes to technical and executive stakeholders.

In this customer-facing role, you will drive PoCs, solution sizing, and adoption for self-serve BI, open table formats like Iceberg, and AI-ready data analytics across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.