SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT (PROFESSIONAL SERVICES)
Company: Confluent
Location: Springfield
Posted on: September 28, 2024
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Job Description:
With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of
continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital
world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day -
we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure
- data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to
create experiences and use the power of data in ways that
profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose
and drives us to do better every day.One Confluent. One team. One
Data Streaming Platform.Data Connects Us.About the Role:We are
looking for a Solutions Architect to join our Customer Success
team. As a Solutions Architect (SA), you will play a crucial role
in helping customers leverage streaming architectures and
applications to achieve their business goals. In this role, you
will interact directly with customers to provide software
architecture, design, and operations expertise that leverages your
deep knowledge of and experience in Apache Flink, Kafka Streams,
the Confluent platform, and complementary systems such as Spark,
Hadoop, Storm, relational and NoSQL databases. You will develop and
advocate best practices, gather and validate critical product
feedback, and help customers overcome their operational
challenges.Throughout all these interactions, you will build a
strong relationship with your customer in a short space of time,
ensuring exemplary delivery standards. You will also have the
opportunity to help customers build state-of-the-art streaming data
infrastructure, in partnership with colleagues who are widely
recognized as industry leaders, as well as optimizing and debugging
customers' existing deployments.What You Will Do:Assistist
customers in defining their platform and application strategy to
transition to a more real-time, event-driven business model. This
involves remote preparation, conducting onsite or remote workshops
for the customer's architects, developers, and operations teams,
collaborating with Engineering and other colleagues to address
complex challenges, and writing a recommendations summary
document.Provide feedback to the Confluent Product and Engineering
groups.Develop tools for other teams or the broader company to
extend our technical capabilities and enhance our ability to
consistently deliver high-quality results.Write or editing
documentation and knowledge base articles, including reference
architecture materials and design patterns based on customer
experiences.Hone your skills, building applications, and trying out
new product features.Participate in community and industry
events.What You Will Bring:Enthusiasm for solving challenging
technical problems and a proven track record of doing so
independently with minimal daily supervision.Significant experience
with Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, the Confluent platform and/or
other stream processing solutions.Experience using cloud providers
(Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) for running
high-throughput systems.Experience operating Linux (configure,
tune, and troubleshoot both Red Hat and Debian-based
distributions).Experience with distributed systems (Kafka, Hadoop,
Cassandra, etc.).Proficiency in Java. Experience with Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting.Excellent communication
skills, with an ability to clearly and concisely explain tricky
issues and complex solutions.Ability to quickly learn new
technologies.Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the
time to meet with customers.Come As You AreAt Confluent, equality
is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an
inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds,
perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are,
the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment
decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without
regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other
classification protected by applicable law.At Confluent, we are
committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in
line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider
several factors when determining compensation, including work
history, education, professional experience, and location. This
position has an annual estimated salary of $153,900 - $180,855, an
annual bonus, and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may
vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work
location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee
benefits. To learn more about our benefits click HERE
(https://confluentbenefits.com/) .Click HERE
(https://www.confluent.io/legal/confluent-candidate-privacy-notice/)
to review our Candidate Privacy Notice which describes how and when
Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and
shares certain personal information of California job applicants
and prospective employees.#LI-Remote
Keywords: Confluent, Peoria , SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT (PROFESSIONAL SERVICES), Other , Springfield, Illinois
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