Senior Streaming Solutions Architect (Kafka/Confluent)

International Business Machines Corporation; United States; Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

IBM in the United States is seeking a Solutions Architect (Confluent) to help customers design and operate production-grade streaming data platforms. You’ll leverage Apache Kafka, Confluent tooling, Kubernetes, and cloud services to modernize data architectures and enable event-driven solutions.

You'll guide customers through architecture, optimization, and deployment, collaborate with engineering and product teams, and travel up to 25% as needed to drive successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions, ideally using Apache Kafka
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple B2B infrastructure software projects, including driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention
• Experience operating Linux (RedHat and Debian-based)
• Experience using cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) for high-throughput systems
• Experience with JVM tuning and troubleshooting
• Experience with modern distributed data systems and container orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift)
• Hands-on experience with IaC and CI/CD tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• Proficiency in Java
• Excellent communication and consulting skills; ability to explain tricky issues clearly
• Willingness to travel up to 25%

Responsibilities

• Consult directly with customers to provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise for streaming architectures
• Develop and advocate best practices, gather product feedback, and help customers overcome challenges
• Build strong customer relationships and ensure exemplary delivery standards
• Lead hands-on implementation of production-ready deployments and lifecycle from development to production

Skills

Big Data design

Kafka/Confluent

Linux administration

Cloud providers

Java proficiency

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

JVM tuning

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

IBM in the United States is seeking a Solutions Architect (Confluent) to help customers design and operate production-grade streaming data platforms. You’ll leverage Apache Kafka, Confluent tooling, Kubernetes, and cloud services to modernize data architectures and enable event-driven solutions.

You'll guide customers through architecture, optimization, and deployment, collaborate with engineering and product teams, and travel up to 25% as needed to drive successful outcomes.