Senior Solutions Engineer

Job description

**Your Role and Responsibilities:** \\* Help advance new & innovative data streaming use-cases from conception to go-live \\* Execute on and lead technical proof of concepts \\* Conduct discovery & whiteboard Sessions to develop new use-cases \\* Provide thought Leadership by delivering technical talks and workshops \\* Guide customers with hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of their Confluent deployment \\* Analyze customer consumption trends and identify optimization opportunities \\* Work closely with product and engineering teams, and serve as a key product advocate across the customer, partner and Industry ecosystem \\* Forge strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a dependable partner for them **Required Education:** Bachelor's Degree **Preferred education** Master's Degree **Required Technical and Professional Expertise:** \\* 5+ years of Sales/Pre-Sales/Solutions Engineering or similar customer facing experience in the software sales or implementation space \\* Experience with event-driven architecture, data integration & processing techniques, database & data warehouse technologies, or related fields \\* First-Hand exposure to cloud architecture, migrations, deployment & application development \\* Experience with DevOps/Automation, GitOps or Kubernetes \\* Ability to read & write Java, Python or SQL \\* Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical problems \\* Exceptional presentation and communications capabilities. Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise architects and up to C-level executives **Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:** \\* Technical certifications - cloud developer/architect, data engineering & integration \\* Familiarity with solution or value Selling \\* A challenger mindset and an ability to positively influence peoples opinions ****Years of Experience:**** 10 - 18