Solution Architect - Confluent

International Business Machines Corporation; United States; Presencial; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

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.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Apache Kafka

Confluent Platform

Spark

Flink

Kubernetes

Relational Databases

NoSQL Databases

Java

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

Linux

AWS

GCP

Azure

Descripción del empleo

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you'll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact.Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You'll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that's passionate about driving innovation and making a difference.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Solutions Architect (SA), you will help customers leverage streaming architectures and applications to achieve their mission outcomes. In this role, you will:

• Consult directly with customers to provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise that leverages your deep knowledge of and experience in Apache Kafka, the Confluent’s products, and complementary systems such as Spark, Flink, Kubernetes, and relational and NoSQL databases;
• Develop and advocate best practices, gather product feedback, and help customers overcome their operational challenges;
• Build a strong relationship with your customer in a very short space of time, ensuring exemplary delivery standards;
• In partnership with industry leading colleagues, have the opportunity to help customers build a state-of-the-art streaming data infrastructure, and optimize and debug customers' existing deployments.

What You Will Do:

• Guide customers in developing strategies to modernize their data platforms and move toward event-driven architectures through workshops and hands-on collaboration. Such engagements often involve remote preparation, presenting onsite or remotely, investigating (with Engineering and other coworkers) solutions to difficult challenges, and writing a recommendations summary doc
• Provide feedback to the Confluent Product and Engineering groups
• Build tooling for another team or the wider company to help us push our technical boundaries and improve our ability to deliver consistently with high quality
• Test performance and functionality of new components developed by Engineering
• Write or edit documentation and knowledge base articles, including reference architecture materials and design patterns based on customer experiences. Hone your skills, building applications, or trying out new product features
• Participate in community and industry events
• Lead the hands-on implementation of production-ready deployments, guiding customer teams through the entire lifecycle from initial development to a successful production launch.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions, ideally using Apache Kafka
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing multiple B2B infrastructure software development projects, including driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention
• Experience operating Linux (configure, tune, and troubleshoot both RedHat and Debian-based distributions)
• Experience using cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) for running high-throughput systems
• Experience with Java