Senior Consultant (Canada - Remote)

at  GridGain Systems

ABOUT THE ROLE

GridGain is seeking a Senior Consultant to help its customers in architecting and designing solutions to real-world, complex business requirements. You will apply your strong analytical and problem-solving skills to tackle transactional and analytical challenges that come in working with massive amounts of constantly changing data. With customer success and satisfaction as your driver, you will delight customers by utilizing your deep experience in solution design and architecture best practices while helping them optimally deploy and implement the GridGain platform.
Location: This is a remote position. Candidates may be based anywhere in Canada and should be willing to travel to customer sites occasionally.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Provide advisory services and help GridGain customers architect the right solution to their business use-cases by building and utilizing your deep understanding of big data and in-memory computing technologies.
• Architect, implement and configure the GridGain platform on customer sites to support the required performance, scale, reliability and availability.
• Apply your deep hands-on Java development and database programming experience to identify and debug performance bottlenecks at the JVM level or data model and query level to achieve desired performance throughput.
• Utilizing your hands-on technical skills, help customers get to the root cause of unexpected platform behavior and debug/resolve complex technical issues.
• Build a mutually trustworthy relationship with GridGain customers based on deep understanding of their business drivers, strategic goals, technical challenges and your desire and ability to provide the optimal technical advice and guidance.
• Leverage your experience and proximity with customers and work closely with Product Management, Engineering and Customer Support staff to identify, document and help resolve technical issues and product feature/functionality gaps.
• Support and help grow the open-source community through your participation in meet-ups, design/code camps and technical speaking engagements.
• Be available during business hours to meet deadlines and client needs, coordinate with co-workers, attend conference calls and/or face-to-face meetings, and handle day-to-day operations necessary for the position