Senior Solutions Engineer
Company: Confluent
Location: Schiller Park
Posted on: June 24, 2025
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Job Description:
Solutions Engineers at Confluent drive not only the early-stage
evaluation within the sales process, but also play a crucial role
in enabling ongoing value-realization for customers, all while
helping them move up the adoption maturity curve. In this role
you’ll partner with Account Executives to be the key technical
advisor in service of the customer. You’ll be instrumental in
surfacing the customers’ stated or implicit Business Needs, and
coming up with Technical Designs to best meet these needs. You may
find yourself at times facilitating art of the possible discussions
and storytelling to inspire customers in adopting new patterns with
confidence, and at other times driving creative solutioning to help
get past difficult technical roadblock, Overall, we look upon
Solutions Engineers to be a key cog within the Customer Success
Team that help foster an environment of sustained success for the
customer and incremental adoption of Confluent’s Technology. What
You Will Do: • Help advance new & innovative Data Streaming
use-cases from conception to Go-Live • Execute on and lead
Technical Proofs of Concept • Conduct Discovery & Whiteboard
Sessions to develop new use-cases • Provide Thought Leadership by
delivering Technical Talks and Workshops • Guide customers with
hands-on help and best practice to drive operational maturity of
their Confluent Deployment • Analyze Customer Consumption trends
and identify Optimization opportunities • Work closely with Product
and Engineering teams, and serve as a key Product advocate across
the Customer, Partner and Industry ecosystem • Forge strong
relationships with key customer stakeholders and serve as a
dependable partner for them What You Will Bring: • 5 years of
Solutions Engineering or similar work experience • Experience with
Event-Driven architecture, Data Integration & Processing
Techniques, Database & Data Warehouse technologies • First-Hand
exposure to Cloud Architecture, Migrations, Deployment &
Application Development • Experience with Automation, GitOps and
Kubernetes • Proficiency in Java, Python or SQL • Technical
certifications - Cloud Developer/Architect, Data Engineering &
Integration • Clear, consistent demonstration of self-starter
behavior, a desire to learn new things and tackle hard technical
problems • Exceptional presentation and communications
capabilities. • Confidence presenting to a highly skilled and
experienced audience, ranging from developers to enterprise
architects and up to C-level executives
Keywords: Confluent, Rockford , Senior Solutions Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Schiller Park, Illinois
