Consulting Architect

Summary

Join us at Elastic, the Search AI Company, to work as an Elastic Consulting Architect, delivering solutions and expertise to drive customer business value from our products.

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years working as a Consultant on client-facing engagements preferably on Elastic Security (ELK Stack)
• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Experience working to deliver and execute on professional services engagements
• Experience as a public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions
• Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene
• Excel at working directly with customers to capture, prioritize, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
• Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge and proficiency in at least one programming language
• Strong hands-on experience with large distributed systems and application infrastructure from an architecture and development perspective
• Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain

Responsibilities

• Deliver Elastic solutions and elastic stack expertise to drive customer business value from our products
• Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments workshops
• Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
• Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
• Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack and Solutions
• Elastic solutions adaption and acceleration along with data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
• Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered optimally and on time while meeting the business objectives
• Working closely ELK engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions, and product defects. Facilitate feedback from field back to the product
• Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concern

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave