Solution Architect

DataStax

(Santa Clara, California)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About DataStax

DataStax delivers Apache Cassandra in a database platform purpose built for the performance and availability demands of IOT, web, and mobile applications.

Responsibilities

Provide empirical based guidance that leads to the successful development, configuration and delivery of large-scale, distributed solutions built on the DataStax Enterprise platform, Apache Cassandra, SOLR, and Spark
Provide technical thought leadership for customer engagements, internal initiatives, and product development
Delivering public and private training for customers and partners
Providing feedback to the Product Management team
Participating in the Cassandra community by attendance in community events and the delivery of DataStax content as required
Ability to thrive in large, complex client engagements, working across teams, organizing and leading implementations in these types of environments
Ability to craft solutions in hosted in on-premise, cloud or hybrid environments.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for people with a passion for helping to make customers and partners successful as a Solution Architect. This individual will have a deep understanding of both the traditional RDBMS and Open Source technologies with the ability to interface with both a developer audience as well as a non-technical audience.

- 3+ years customer facing experience
- 7+ years in an application development or consulting role
- Proven track record within a software vendor or turn-key hardware and software vendor
- Strong communication and presentation skill
- Ability to present complex solutions concisely 1:1 and to a large audience
- 7+ years experience in both traditional RDBMS and NoSQL databases including Data Modeling
Direct exposure to Cassandra, Hadoop and Solr preferable but not required
- 7+ years of experience administering, configuring, or delivering solutions on Linux, Java and/or Python
Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting
- Strong software development skills with the ability to communicate well to the developer community
- Comfortable talking up and down the IT chain of command including the IT Director and CIO level
- Good knowledge of datacenter architecture particularly multi-datacenter and global deployments
- Organized and analytical, able to thrive under pressure whilst leveraging strong time management skills
- Creative and adaptive approach with an ability to remove obstacles and accelerate the sales cycle
- Software Development and Engineering work experience required
- Ability to travel up to 60% of the time is required.

3+ years customer facing experience
7+ years in an application development or consulting role
Proven track record within a software vendor or turn-key hardware and software vendor
Strong communication and presentation skill
Ability to present complex solutions concisely 1:1 and to a large audience
7+ years experience in both traditional RDBMS and NoSQL databases including Data Modeling Direct exposure to Cassandra, Hadoop and Solr preferable but not required
7+ years of experience administering, configuring, or delivering solutions on Linux, Java and/or Python Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting
Strong software development skills with the ability to communicate well to the developer community
Comfortable talking up and down the IT chain of command including the IT Director and CIO level
Good knowledge of datacenter architecture particularly multi-datacenter and global deployments
Organized and analytical, able to thrive under pressure whilst leveraging strong time management skills
Creative and adaptive approach with an ability to remove obstacles and accelerate the sales cycle
Software Development and Engineering work experience required
Ability to travel up to 60% of the time is required.