at Cloudera Government Solution in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Business Area: Sales Engineering
Seniority Level:Mid-Senior level
Job Description:
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
Actively participate within the Cloudera community
Create and deliver customer-centric solution designs
Present roadmap, vision, proposed architectures and business outcomes to technical teams
Responsible for defining technical selling approach for accounts
Regularly participate in account penetration / success strategy planning, working with sales counterparts and solutions engineering management
Understand the core differentiators across the competitive landscape
Understand the technology ecosystem
Transform customer feedback into actionable product roadmap items
A share of evangelism activities (blogs, meetups, industry events)
Mentor associates, participate in creation and maintenance of enablement materials across the team
Participate in contribution to internal and external knowledge repositories
We're excited about you if you have:
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 (able 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)
You are on good terms with Infrastructure (Hardware, Storage, Network), Java/.NET, and SQL . You have an interest in Data Science and understand the difference between Data Engineering and Applied Science
You have strong Linux skills
Demonstrated Strong Written and verbal Communication skills
Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills
You may also have:
Demonstrated knowledge of Big Data Ecosystem (HDFS & YARN, Spark, Impala, KUDU, Solr etc ), can talk to the benefits of a centralized architecture for both data management and data access
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.)
What you can expect from us:
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
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Cloudera is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.