We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.
It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.
One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are looking for a Solutions Architect to join our Professional Services team. As a Senior Solutions Architect (SA), you will help customers leverage streaming architectures and applications to achieve their business outcomes. In this role, you will engage directly with customers to provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise that leverages your deep knowledge of and experience in Apache Kafka, the Confluent platform, and complementary systems.
Join our dynamic, fast-growing Professional Services team and help us accelerate the delivery of streaming data for the enterprise. As the ideal candidate, you will work closely with multiple teams inside the organization and within our partner ecosystem to drive consistency, provide best practices, and accelerate the realization of business value for our customers through adoption of Confluent data in motion capabilities.
You will develop and advocate best practices, gather and validate critical product feedback, and help customers overcome their operational challenges. Throughout all these interactions, you will build a strong relationship with your customer in a very short space of time, quickly gaining “trusted advisor” status ensuring exemplary delivery standards. You will also have the opportunity to help customers build state-of-the-art streaming data infrastructure, in partnership with colleagues who are widely recognized as industry leaders. In addition you will help optimize and provide guidance and direction on next steps and streaming adoption roadmaps for customer’s existing deployments.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Understand our customers business drivers and strategy and create the vision and roadmap to establish a Confluent Data Streaming Platform within their environment
• Design an executable data streaming strategy that encompasses how our customers can drive value from their data through a unified Data Streaming Platform and an appropriate operating model (ways of working)
• Help our customers determine their platform and/or application strategy for moving to a real-time, event-based business.
• Present onsite or remote workshops for the customer’s architects, developers, and operations teams
• Investigate solutions to difficult challenges
• Write and present recommendations, architecture decisions, design documentation for customers
• Be a thought leader on Data Streaming best practices, incorporating both the technological and the organisation, process and wider governance aspects.
• Support the practice in presales activities, including requirements gathering, estimates, and compelling professional services/delivery proposals
• Creating reusable assets to help develop the practice and push our technical, process, operational boundaries and improve our ability to deliver consistently with high quality