Senior Solutions Engineer

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