Senior Data Lakehouse Architect (Iceberg) — Remote

Cloudera; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 154,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Unplugged Days

Flexible WFH

Wellness programs

Phone reimbursement

Career development

Benefits package

Volunteer time

Employee groups

Job summary

Cloudera is seeking a Field Specialist - Data Lakehouse to join our global team. In this pre-sales role, you’ll leverage deep technical expertise to empower customers, influence product direction, and drive BI and AI-ready analytics use cases at scale.

You will lead engagements by designing scalable lakehouse architectures, supporting PoCs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and implementing mission-critical data warehousing and BI use cases across industries.
• Experience designing scalable, cloud-native lakehouse architectures and delivering business outcomes.
• Hands-on expertise with SQL engines, open table formats, and big data warehousing technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements by designing scalable, cloud-native lakehouse architectures and presenting business outcomes to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Provide deep domain expertise throughout the sales cycle, supporting PoCs, solution sizing, and adoption for self-serve BI and AI-ready analytics.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to query performance and data federation; guide escalations.
• Drive internal and external technical enablement by developing educational materials and sharing best practices for modern data warehousing.
• Influence product roadmap by translating customer feedback into actionable insights for product and engineering teams.
• Act as a Cloudera evangelist, participating in community activities and events, and contributing to knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering to align on customer success and product vision.
• Travel: ability to travel to customer sites and Cloudera hubs approximately once per month.

Skills

Data lakehouse

PoCs

Cloud architectures

SQL engines

Apache Iceberg

Trino

Hive

Impala

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Trino

Apache Hive

Apache Impala

Job description

Cloudera is seeking a Field Specialist - Data Lakehouse to join our global team. In this pre-sales role, you’ll leverage deep technical expertise to empower customers, influence product direction, and drive BI and AI-ready analytics use cases at scale.

You will lead engagements by designing scalable lakehouse architectures, supporting PoCs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.