Senior Streaming Data Architect

International Business Machines Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Global Sales seeks a Solutions Architect to help clients deploy streaming data platforms using Apache Kafka, Confluent, Spark, Flink, and Kubernetes. You will partner with customers to design, deploy, and optimize modern data architectures that drive digital transformation.

In this role, you will guide workshops, provide engineering feedback, and lead hands-on implementations from design through production launch, collaborating across teams and geographies.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating in-production big data and streaming architectures, preferably with Kafka.
• Proven track record managing multiple B2B software projects, delivering value and adoption.
• Experience operating Linux environments and cloud providers for high-throughput systems.

Responsibilities

• Consult directly with customers to provide software architecture and operations expertise.
• Develop best practices, gather feedback, and help customers overcome challenges.
• Lead hands-on deployment of production-ready streaming data platforms.

Skills

Apache Kafka

Confluent Platform

Spark

Flink

Kubernetes

Relational Databases

NoSQL Databases

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Linux

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

IBM Global Sales seeks a Solutions Architect to help clients deploy streaming data platforms using Apache Kafka, Confluent, Spark, Flink, and Kubernetes. You will partner with customers to design, deploy, and optimize modern data architectures that drive digital transformation.

In this role, you will guide workshops, provide engineering feedback, and lead hands-on implementations from design through production launch, collaborating across teams and geographies.