Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IBM is a global technology and consulting company that helps clients address complex business challenges through innovation and digital transformation. The Senior Solution Sales Engineer will serve as a technical advisor for Confluent, advancing data streaming use cases, leading proofs of concept, guiding customer deployments, and supporting ongoing technology adoption.
Responsibilities
- Help advance new & innovative Data Streaming use-cases from conception to Go-Live
- Execute on and lead Technical Proofs of Concept
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years of Solutions Engineering or similar work experience
- Experience with Event-Driven architecture, Data Integration & Processing Techniques, Database & Data Warehouse technologies
- First-Hand exposure to Cloud Architecture, Migrations, Deployment & Application Development
- Experience with Automation, GitOps and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in Java, Python or SQL
- Technical certifications - Cloud Developer/Architect, Data Engineering & Integration
- 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
- Up to 20% or 1 day a week
- IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- World-class onboarding
- Continuous learning
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- 401(k)
- Cash balance pension plan
- IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial counseling
- Life insurance
- Short & long-term disability coverage
- Opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- 12 holidays
- Minimum 56 hours sick time
- 120 hours vacation
- 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy
- Other Paid Care Leave programs
- Paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform
- Opportunities to grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups
- Giving & volunteer opportunities
- Discounts on retail products, services & experiences
- Eligibility for participation in an IBM Sales Incentive plan, with actual incentive opportunity based on performance and the eligible Target Incentive
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