Staff Solution Sales Engineer – Data Streaming & Cloud

IBM; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Global Sales is seeking a Staff Solutions Engineer who partners with Account Executives to translate customer needs into scalable data streaming solutions. You will guide technical design, run PoCs, and help customers move from concepts to Go-Live while aligning with industry best practices.

You’ll work across LATAM and enterprise accounts, deliver workshops, and advocate for product enhancements, with a focus on cloud architectures, data integration, and deployment maturity.

Qualifications

• Portuguese language proficiency and bilingual capabilities.
• Extensive experience as a Solutions Engineer or similar role.
• Experience with Event-Driven architecture, data integration/processing, and data warehousing technologies.
• Exposure to cloud architecture, migrations, deployment, and application development.
• Experience with automation, GitOps and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, or SQL.
• Technical certifications in cloud/ data integration areas.
• Demonstrated self-starting behavior and eagerness to tackle hard technical problems.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Confidence presenting to developers, enterprise architects, and executives.
• Experience working with LATAM markets.

Responsibilities

• Advance new data streaming use-cases from concept to Go-Live and lead technical proofs of concept.
• Conduct discovery and whiteboard sessions to develop new use-cases; deliver talks and workshops.
• Guide customers with hands-on help and best practices to mature deployment operations.
• Analyze customer consumption trends and identify optimization opportunities; collaborate with product and engineering teams.
• Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner.

Skills

Portuguese Speaking

Solutions Engineering

Event-Driven Architecture

Data Integration

Data Warehousing

Cloud Architecture

Migrations

Deployment

Application Development

Automation

GitOps

Kubernetes

Java

Python

SQL

Cloud Certifications

Self-starter

Presentation Skills

Executive Communication

LATAM Experience

Tools

Kubernetes

GitOps

Cloud Certifications

Job description

IBM Global Sales is seeking a Staff Solutions Engineer who partners with Account Executives to translate customer needs into scalable data streaming solutions. You will guide technical design, run PoCs, and help customers move from concepts to Go-Live while aligning with industry best practices.

You’ll work across LATAM and enterprise accounts, deliver workshops, and advocate for product enhancements, with a focus on cloud architectures, data integration, and deployment maturity.