Senior Solutions Engineer: Data Streaming & Cloud

IBM; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Confluent is seeking a Solutions Engineer to drive early-stage evaluation and enable ongoing value realization for customers. You will partner with Account Executives as the technical advisor, surface stated or implicit business needs, and design technical solutions to meet them.

You may lead discovery, architecture discussions, and customer enablement activities. You will collaborate with customers to scale adoption of Confluent's technology, shaping solutions and removing technical blockers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Solutions Engineering or similar work experience.
• Experience with Event-Driven architecture, Data Integration & Processing Techniques, Database & Data Warehouse technologies.
• First-Hand exposure to Cloud Architecture, Migrations, Deployment & Application Development.
• Experience with Automation, GitOps and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Java, Python or SQL.
• Technical certifications - Cloud Developer/Architect, Data Engineering & Integration.
• Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems.
• Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities.
• Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives.

Responsibilities

• Help advance new & innovative Data Streaming use-cases from conception to Go-Live.
• Lead Technical Proofs of Concept and ensure customer value realization.
• Conduct Discovery & Whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases.
• Provide Thought Leadership by delivering Technical Talks and Workshops.
• Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their deployment.
• Analyze Customer Consumption trends and identify Optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to advocate for customers across ecosystems.
• Build strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and act as a dependable partner.

Skills

Event-Driven architecture

Data Integration

Data Processing Techniques

Database & Data Warehouse

Cloud Architecture

Migrations

Deployment

Application Development

Automation

GitOps

Kubernetes

Java

Python

SQL

Self-starter

Presentation & Communications

Tools

GitOps Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Confluent is seeking a Solutions Engineer to drive early-stage evaluation and enable ongoing value realization for customers. You will partner with Account Executives as the technical advisor, surface stated or implicit business needs, and design technical solutions to meet them.

You may lead discovery, architecture discussions, and customer enablement activities. You will collaborate with customers to scale adoption of Confluent's technology, shaping solutions and removing technical blockers