Senior Data Engineering & Streaming Specialist (Pre-Sales)

Cloudera; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudera is seeking a Senior Field Specialist in Data Engineering & Streaming (Pre-Sales) to design and present cloud-native data architectures for enterprise customers in the US. You will lead technical engagements, support PoCs and MVPs, and help shape product direction while ensuring AI-ready data pipelines across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

The role emphasizes strong presentation skills, customer engagement, and collaboration with Sales, Product, and Engineering to drive customer

Qualifications

• Experience leading mission-critical data use cases across industries.
• Design and deploy enterprise-grade data pipelines and real-time streaming.
• Hands-on with Spark, Airflow, NiFi, Flink, and Kafka.
• Experience in hybrid/multi-cloud deployments, data prep, CDC, and large-scale ingestion.
• Proven PoCs/MVPs delivering enterprise-grade deployments.
• Ability to architect AI-ready data foundations with governance and security.
• Excellent presentation skills for diverse audiences.
• Ability to map migration/modernization roadmaps to customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements designing scalable cloud-native data architectures.
• Provide domain expertise across PoCs, sizing, and adoption for streaming and AI readiness.
• Troubleshoot complex data pipeline issues and guide escalations.
• Create educational materials and share best practices for cloud-native streaming.
• Influence product roadmap with customer feedback and regional requirements.
• Act as a Cloudera evangelist at events and community activities.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering to align on customer success.

Skills

Data engineering

Real-time streaming

PoCs/MVPs

Pre-sales

Cloud-native

Data governance

Presentation skills

Cross-functional

CDC

AI readiness

Tools

Apache Spark

Airflow

Apache NiFi

Apache Flink

Apache Kafka

Confluent

Databricks

AWS EMR/Glue

Job description

Cloudera is seeking a Senior Field Specialist in Data Engineering & Streaming (Pre-Sales) to design and present cloud-native data architectures for enterprise customers in the US. You will lead technical engagements, support PoCs and MVPs, and help shape product direction while ensuring AI-ready data pipelines across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

The role emphasizes strong presentation skills, customer engagement, and collaboration with Sales, Product, and Engineering to drive customer