Senior Field Specialist – Data Lakehouse

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About the role

  • Data Lakehouse Specialist helping Cloudera customers modernize cloud-native analytics platforms. Designing lakehouse architectures, supporting sales engagements, and enabling BI and AI-ready data use cases.

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer engagements by designing and presenting scalable, cloud-native lakehouse architectures and business outcomes
  • Provide domain expertise throughout the sales cycle, supporting PoCs, solution sizing, and customer adoption
  • Focus on self-serve BI, open table formats, and AI-ready data analytics
  • Troubleshoot complex issues involving query performance, concurrent workload management, and data federation
  • Lead technical escalations and provide guidance
  • Drive internal and external technical enablement
  • Explore analytical engines, develop educational materials, and share data warehousing best practices
  • Translate customer feedback and region-specific requirements into product and engineering insights
  • Participate in community activities, speak at events, and contribute to knowledge sharing
  • Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams
  • Travel to customer sites and Cloudera hubs approximately once per month

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading and implementing mission-critical data warehousing and BI use cases
  • Proven experience designing, building, and deploying enterprise-grade data lakehouses and big data analytics platforms on cloud-native architectures
  • Hands-on expertise with Apache Iceberg, Trino, Apache Hive, and Apache Impala
  • Strong background architecting production data deployments across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
  • Expertise in massive-scale BI, ad-hoc analytics, and building an AI-ready data foundation
  • Demonstrated ability to run PoCs and MVPs leading to enterprise-grade production deployments
  • Experience ensuring high-concurrency query performance and cost optimization
  • Experience designing data-intensive architectures, including data modeling, security, data quality, and governance
  • Exceptional presentation skills with technical and executive audiences
  • Ability to analyze customer data warehouse workloads and define technical migration or modernization roadmaps
  • Prior pre-sales or technical consulting experience is a bonus
  • Experience with Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, or Teradata is a bonus
  • Experience with dbt, Star Schema, or Data Vault is a bonus
  • Experience with open-source software and development practices is a bonus
  • Familiarity with Cloudera Data Warehouse, Cloudera Machine Learning, and Shared Data Experience is a bonus
  • Relevant technical certifications are a bonus
  • Working knowledge of Apache Spark and Airflow is a bonus
  • This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

Benefits

  • Generous PTO Policy
  • Unplugged Days supporting work-life balance
  • Flexible WFH Policy
  • Mental & Physical Wellness programs
  • Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
  • Access to Continued Career Development
  • Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
  • Paid Volunteer Time
  • Employee Resource Groups

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AirflowAmazon RedshiftApacheBigQueryCloudSparkVault

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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