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.

As a Senior Solution Engineering Manager you will:

Manage and lead a team of world class SE's

Become intimately acquainted with customers’ business requirements, technical needs, systems, environment and service history within your region, enabling you to manage the presentation of your team's targeted business solutions

Present roadmap, vision, proposed architectures and business outcomes to all levels – developers, architects, CTO, CIO

Glue together Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Engineering and Support

Liaise with the RSD on a regular basis and provide input on the forecast plan

Transform customer feedback into actionable product roadmap items

A share of evangelism activities (Cloudera Community Connection, blogs, meetups, industry events)

We’re excited about you if you have:

You have experience building, leading and managing teams

You are passionate about fostering team culture, creating an environment for team communication, collaboration and innovation

You can identify upcoming talent and help develop them into rock star contributors to take their career to the next level

You have Enterprise Software and Big Data experience (you know your Pig from your Hive and your Spark) and comfortable with native Cloud Service Provider architectures and are certified in one or more

Data Lake to you is more than ‘dump your data here’, you understand the problems of Operations, Security and Data Governance within the enterprise

You are on good terms with Infrastructure (Hardware, Storage, Network), Java/.NET/python, and SQL

You have an interest in Data Science and understand the difference between Data Engineering and Data Science

You’re passionate about what you’re doing and ignite people around you

You know your way around OSS and can prove/show it

Four year degree (Bachelor's) from accredited university required

Ability to travel domestically and internationally

You may also have:

You already know and love core Apache Hadoop (HDFS & YARN) and can talk to the benefits of how centralized architectures for both data management and data access have evolved to separate storage and compute, and the deployment factors from public, hybrid to private

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)

Streaming experience (Nifi, Kafka, Storm, Spark, Solr, Flink etc.)

NoSQL experience (HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.) Maybe you can even debate one option over another?

EDW experience – the Teradatas, Netezzas, GreenPlum/HAWQ, Exadatas of the world

Integration Products experience (Tibco, MuleSoft, IBM, Oracle, Spring Integration, etc.)

Cloudera Certified - Admin and/or Develope

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

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.

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