Confluent

Senior Solutions Architect

Confluent

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Colorado, Maryland, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $181,800 - $213,700 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AnsibleApacheAWSAzureCloudJavaKafkaKubernetesLinuxNoSQLOpenShiftTerraform

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 5+ years as a Solutions Architect or similar work experience
  • Must have an active Secret level or above Department of Defense clearance.
  • Deep 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 Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting
  • Experience with modern distributed data systems, such as cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks), container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift), and other NoSQL or stream processing technologies.
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD tools, particularly Terraform for cloud automation and Ansible for on-premise deployments.
  • Proficiency in Java
  • Excellent communication and consulting skills, with an ability to clearly and concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions
  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time to meet with customers.
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Hard skills
Big Datastream processingenterprise data integrationApache KafkaLinuxcloud providersJava Virtual Machinecloud data platformsInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD
Soft skills
communicationconsultingproblem-solvingcustomer satisfactionproject managementleadershipcollaborationpresentationdocumentationcommunity engagement
Certifications
Secret level Department of Defense clearance