Cloudera - Wichita, KS
posted 5 months ago
About the position
At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world's largest enterprises. Cloudera is seeking a Solutions Engineer to come join our team. You will utilize your strong technical, business competencies and customer service skills to provide the highest level of business and technical consultation to sales teams, prospects and customers to support sales goals. As a Solutions Engineer, you will provide advice in customer use cases discovery and requirements workshops. You will actively participate within the Cloudera community, create and deliver customer-centric solution designs, and present roadmap, vision, proposed architectures, and business outcomes to technical teams. You will be responsible for defining the technical selling approach for accounts and regularly participate in account penetration and success strategy planning, working with sales counterparts and solutions engineering management. Understanding the core differentiators across the competitive landscape and the technology ecosystem is crucial. You will transform customer feedback into actionable product roadmap items and share in evangelism activities such as blogs, meetups, and industry events. Additionally, you will mentor associates and participate in the creation and maintenance of enablement materials across the team, as well as contribute to internal and external knowledge repositories.
Responsibilities
- Provide advice in customer use cases discovery and requirements workshops
- Actively participate within the Cloudera community
- Create and deliver customer-centric solution designs
- Present roadmap, vision, proposed architectures and business outcomes to technical teams
- Define technical selling approach for accounts
- Participate in account penetration and success strategy planning
- Understand the core differentiators across the competitive landscape
- Transform customer feedback into actionable product roadmap items
- Engage in evangelism activities such as blogs, meetups, and industry events
- Mentor associates and participate in creation and maintenance of enablement materials
- Contribute to internal and external knowledge repositories
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in a Technical Field
- 3-5+ years of professional work experience in a similar position
- Enterprise Software and Big Data experience
- Demonstrated understanding of the challenges in operations, Security and Data Governance within the enterprise
- Solution Architecture/Engineering experience as a field of practice
- Ability to listen to customer requirements, whiteboard and propose solution architecture, and get hands-on with the tech to design, build, and demonstrate real business value
- Familiarity with Infrastructure (Hardware, Storage, Network), Java/.NET, and SQL
- Interest in Data Science and understanding of the difference between Data Engineering and Applied Science
- Strong Linux skills
- Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills
Nice-to-haves
- Demonstrated knowledge of Big Data Ecosystem (HDFS & YARN, Spark, Impala, KUDU, Solr etc.)
- Streaming experience (Nifi, Kafka, Flink, Spark, etc.)
- NoSQL experience (HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
- EDW experience - Teradata, Netezza, GreenPlum, Exadata
- Data Science and ML experience - (R, Python, Deep Learning Frameworks etc.)
- Integration Products experience (Talend, DataStage, Informatica BDM, Qlik, Tableau, Zoomdata, IBM, Oracle, etc.)
Benefits
- Generous PTO Policy
- Support work life balance with Unplugged Days
- Flexible WFH Policy
- Mental & Physical Wellness programs
- Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
- Access to Continued Career Development
- Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
- Paid Volunteer Time
- Employee Resource Groups
