Senior Customer Success Technical Architect

Description
Position at Confluent Australia Pty Limited
Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favourite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That's the power of data in motion in action-giving organisations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we're building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organisation. With Confluent, organisations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.
We're looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energised to roll up their sleeves and help realise Confluent's enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow-whether you're just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you'll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.
About the Role:
The Senior Customer Success Technical Architect serves as the technical champion for our enterprise customers. In this role, you will function as the primary point of contact for all technical, product and support questions on a day-to-day basis and will coordinate with the various Confluent teams to ensure that resources are leveraged efficiently to make your customers successful. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build broad experience with Kafka, the Confluent Platform and work with a variety of organizations ranging from new start-ups to large enterprise customers. Throughout all of these interactions, you will build strong relationships with customers, ensure exemplary delivery standards, and have a lot of fun helping our customers build state-of-the-art streaming data infrastructure alongside colleagues who are widely recognised as leaders in this space.
What You Will Do:

• Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent - you will be the voice of the customer and will have to coordinate between Confluent Sales, Product, Services, Support and Training teams to drive Customer Success
• Developing and presenting periodical customer reviews to Confluent senior management
• When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Support Engineers and Core Engineering
• Leverage knowledge of your customers environments to assist Support Engineers and Professional Services teams in better serving your customers
• Leverage knowledge of your customers environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products
• Complete analysis and present periodic reviews of operational performance to customer leadership
• Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, detailed pre-launch planning
• Help to educate your accounts on best practices for using Confluent platform
• When necessary, recommend proactive measures to help customers avoid issues and to ensure Customer Success (e.g. professional services engagements, training sessions, on-site visits, etc.)

What You Will Bring:

• Demonstrated success in Customer Success, Customer Support or Professional Services function for a product/SaaS company with enterprise customers
• Strong desire to tackle hard technical problems and proven ability do so with little or no direct daily supervision
• Ability to learn new technology quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions
• Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting
• Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat & Debian based distributions
• Exceptional interpersonal communications capabilities demonstrated through a history of successful B2B infrastructure software development projects
• Project management experience, as you will need to be able to coordinate across various Confluent teams to ensure success for your accounts
• Bachelor level degree in Computer Science or an engineering, mathematics, or another quantitative field
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity in a fast-paced, deadline oriented start-up environment
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects at a time while paying strict attention to detail and deliver results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention
• Previous experience helping customers build solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside Hadoop, relational and NoSQL databases, message queues, and related products
• Prior experience working for a technology start-up
• Proficiency in Java and distributed systems
• Flexibility to travel up to 25% of the time to meet with your accounts
• You are based in Canberra with an active NV2 (or higher) security clearance

Come As You Are
At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.