Sales Engineer collaborating with partners to ensure technical success and drive adoption of Cloudera’s analytics platform. Engaging throughout the sales cycle and providing technical expertise to partners and customers.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with the sales team to support partners throughout the sales cycle, ensuring a technical win and a smooth deal closure through in-depth technical engagement.
Provide robust technical enablement to partners, equipping them with the tools and best practices to effectively represent Cloudera’s Data Platform (CDP) across Hybrid and Multi-cloud environments.
Act as the primary technical lead within the sales team, presenting Cloudera’s architecture (including Data Hub, Data Warehouse, and Operational DB) to solve customers’ critical business challenges.
Prepare and deliver high-impact technical demonstrations and lead the technical execution of Proof of Concepts (POCs) for Cloudera's core data services.
Architect joint solutions that integrate partner AI, ML, and generative AI capabilities with Cloudera’s governed data lakehouse, leveraging Cloudera-recommended patterns to ensure enterprise-grade security, governance, scalability, and performance across hybrid and on-prem deployments.
Proactively identify and resolve technical hurdles—ranging from data ingestion and governance to infrastructure orchestration—that may impede the adoption of Cloudera’s products.
Support the technical requirements of existing customers while identifying new use cases to expand the footprint and impact of Cloudera’s technology.
Gather and align customer and partner requirements with Cloudera’s product management and engineering teams to influence the roadmap for future product versions.
Requirements
Extensive experience performing customer-facing activities as part of a pre-sales, sales engineering, or professional services team, preferably within a partner-centric model.
In-depth knowledge of Linux environments, Java, and SQL, including expertise in query optimization and complex data model design.
A thorough understanding of distributed systems, big data architectures (Hadoop/Spark), and the Cloudera ecosystem (CDP) is essential.
A solid understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and containerized environments is required to support CDP Private Cloud and Public Cloud deployments.
Deep understanding of AI/ML fundamentals, extensive hands-on experience with ML frameworks, and proven expertise across the full ML lifecycle (MLOps), including the delivery of scalable AI solutions on enterprise data platforms.
Demonstrable ability to create and deliver compelling technical presentations and live product demos to a wide range of audiences, from engineers to C-level executives.
Excellent communication skills combined with a deep willingness to learn, adapt, and stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving data and AI landscape.
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