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Confluent is searching for a Senior Customer Success Technical Architect (CSTA) to act as a trusted technical advisor and advocate to work with our customers. The primary objective of this role is to ensure the success, retention & expansion of our customers by providing technical guidance, including best practices, for the Confluent product suite. You will partner with others in Customer Solutions as well as cross-functional divisions such as Sales, Product Management and Engineering to help our customers accelerate time to value, maximize product consumption and achieve their overall business objectives. The CSTA role is both deeply technical and commercial in nature. You will leverage a technical background (e.g. AppDev, SysAdmin, Distributed Computing) to advise customers on their architectures, including patterns & strategies for operating and maturing their Confluent subscription. You will also utilize relationship management skills & industry experience to guide the customer on how they can best achieve their business goals and value-based outcomes via their Confluent investment.
Job Responsibility:
Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent. You will be the technical voice of the customer
Identify customer technical objections and develop strategies to address those blockers to adoption
Proactively support customers through technical lifecycle activities such as architecture planning, cluster & security design, monitoring & automation
review & provide guidance on upgrade or migration plans, platform & application hardening ideas and high availability design
Guide customers up the data streaming maturity curve through recommendations on advanced technical topics (e.g. data mesh, stream processing, utilization optimization & performance tuning)
Develop and present periodic customer reviews, including analysis of technical health and operational performance, to Confluent senior management
Document and transfer knowledge to customers and internal teams
Leverage knowledge of your customer environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products
When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Technical Support Engineers and Core Engineering
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, mathematics, or equivalent degree or experience
Demonstrated success in a technical Field role for a product / SaaS company with enterprise customers
Passion for working on complex technical problems, with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies
self-starter who loves a fast-paced environment
Excellent interpersonal & communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions to a variety of personas
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customers at a time while paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention
Collaborative spirit, outstanding consulting & relationship management skills and ability to rapidly switch context
Hands on knowledge of one or more key cloud vendors (AWS, GCP and Azure)
Solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g. VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos, etc.)
Experience prototyping and analyzing code for client solutions in multiple languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, etc.)
Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting
Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat & Debian based distributions
Ability to learn new technologies quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!
Nice to have:
Confluent Developer or Administrator certifications
Experience with Apache Kafka & Apache Flink
Experience helping customers build distributed systems or streaming solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside technologies such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc