Remote Data Lakehouse Field Specialist (Iceberg)

Cloudera; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO Policy

Flexible WFH Policy

Wellness programs

Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Career Development

Comprehensive Benefits

Volunteer Time

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Cloudera seeks a Field Specialist - Data Lakehouse (Apache Iceberg) in the Sales Engineering group. You will lead customer engagements, design scalable cloud-native lakehouse architectures, and influence product direction while working with BI and AI-ready analytics across enterprise clients.

The role requires deep technical expertise, strong presentation and collaboration skills, and willingness to travel about once per month to customer sites and Cloudera hubs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading pre-sales or technical consulting in data warehousing and AI platforms.
• Proven ability to design lakehouse architectures with Iceberg on cloud.
• Strong presentation skills for diverse audiences including executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements by designing and presenting scalable, cloud-native lakehouse architectures and business outcomes to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Provide deep domain expertise throughout the sales cycle, supporting PoCs, solution sizing, and adoption for new and existing customers focusing on self-serve BI, open table formats (Iceberg), and AI-ready data analytics.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to query performance, concurrent workload management, and data federation, providing guidance and leading escalations.
• Drive internal and external technical enablement by exploring new analytical engines, developing educational materials, and sharing best practices around modern data warehousing.
• Influence product roadmap by translating customer feedback and region-specific requirements into actionable insights for our product and engineering teams.
• Act as a Cloudera evangelist, participating in community activities, speaking at events, and contributing to knowledge sharing around the open data lakehouse paradigm.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (Sales, Product, Engineering) to align on customer success and product vision.
• Travel: Ability to travel to customer sites and Cloudera hubs approximately once per month.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Data Lakehouse

Apache Iceberg

SQL engines

Cloud architectures

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Job description

Cloudera seeks a Field Specialist - Data Lakehouse (Apache Iceberg) in the Sales Engineering group. You will lead customer engagements, design scalable cloud-native lakehouse architectures, and influence product direction while working with BI and AI-ready analytics across enterprise clients.

The role requires deep technical expertise, strong presentation and collaboration skills, and willingness to travel about once per month to customer sites and Cloudera hubs.