Elastic Consulting Architect - Public Sector

The role

This role focuses on delivery and leading stakeholder relationships at high levels of Government to align Elastic to strategic objectives. You will design, develop, and integrate Elastic products, APIs, and platform architecture in mission-critical environments.

What you will do

• Build customer relationships and provide strong advocacy and communication.
• Pivot from delivery to strategic engagements with customers.
• Support customer goals and strategic requirements with the wider Elastic organisation.
• Own the strategic roadmap with customers including quarterly strategic sessions.
• Design, develop, and integrate Elastic products, APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning.
• Develop demos and proof-of-concepts for the Elastic Stack.
• Perform data modelling, query development, optimisation, cluster tuning, and scaling.
• Solve challenging data problems for customers.
• Work with engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements.
• Engage with the Sales team to scope opportunities and assess technical risks.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or DevOps Engineer.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience working as a Consultant delivering professional services engagements.
• Currently holding current UK security clearance, or has previously held security clearance, or is willing to undergo security clearance.
• Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology.
• Ability to work directly with customers to gather, prioritise, plan and execute solutions.
• Understanding and passion for open-source technology.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective.
• Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain.
• Understanding of Linux, Java and databases.

Nice to have

• Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification.
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline.
• Strong knowledge of Java and Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with distributed systems.
• Experience and interest in delivering and/or developing product training.
• Experience contributing to an open-source project or documentation.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• 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.
• Match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Before you apply

• Must be a current holder of Security clearance or willing to undergo security clearance.
• An export license may be required for individuals located in or who are nationals of Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia, including the Ukrainian territories annexed to Russia.

About the company

Elastic is the Search AI Company that enables finding answers in real time using all data at scale. The Elastic Search AI Platform is used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500.