Senior Consultant (canada - Remote)

Senior Consultant

Location: Canada (this is a remote role but candidates must be physically located in Canada)

ABOUT GRIDGAIN

We live in a world that increasingly expects instant gratification. To remain competitive, enterprises must process and analyze extraordinary amounts of information in milliseconds.

GridGain's Unified Real-Time Data platform enables a simplified and optimized data architecture for enterprises that require extreme speed, massive scale, and high availability from their data ecosystem. It seamlessly combines streaming data in-motion and historical data at-rest with compute functionality to help companies handle complex analytical, streaming, and transactional data workloads at ultra-low latencies.

GridGain is trusted by companies like Citi, Barclays, American Airlines, AutoZone, and UPS to manage mission-critical data operations across their businesses.

GridGain is growing! Join the team and play a critical role in a fast-paced Silicon Valley startup that's changing the definition of "real time," and the world's expectations for high-speed data processing, computation, and analytics.

ABOUT THE ROLE

GridGain is seeking a Senior Consultant to help its customers in architecting and designing solutions to real-world, complex business requirements. You will apply your strong analytical and problem-solving skills to tackle transactional and analytical challenges that come in working with massive amounts of constantly changing data. With customer success and satisfaction as your driver, you will delight customers by utilizing your deep experience in solution design and architecture best practices while helping them optimally deploy and implement the GridGain platform.

Location: This is a remote position. Candidates may be based anywhere in Canada and should be willing to travel to customer sites occasionally. 

  

What you'll be doing:

• Provide advisory services and help GridGain customers architect the right solution to their business use-cases by building and utilizing your deep understanding of big data and in-memory computing technologies.
• Architect, implement and configure the GridGain platform on customer sites to support the required performance, scale, reliability and availability.
• Apply your deep hands-on Java development and database programming experience to identify and debug performance bottlenecks at the JVM level or data model and query level to achieve desired performance throughput.
• Utilizing your hands-on technical skills, help customers get to the root cause of unexpected platform behavior and debug/resolve complex technical issues.
• Build a mutually trustworthy relationship with GridGain customers based on deep understanding of their business drivers, strategic goals, technical challenges and your desire and ability to provide the optimal technical advice and guidance.
• Leverage your experience and proximity with customers and work closely with Product Management, Engineering and Customer Support staff to identify, document and help resolve technical issues and product feature/functionality gaps.
• Support and help grow the open-source community through your participation in meet-ups, design/code camps and technical speaking engagements.
• Be available during business hours to meet deadlines and client needs, coordinate with co-workers, attend conference calls and/or face-to-face meetings, and handle day-to-day operations necessary for the position

What we're looking for:

• Deep hands-on experience writing complex, distributed, multi-threaded JEE applications
• Experience architecting and implementing highly scalable, highly transactional, multi-datacenter and secure applications
• Hands-on experience in working with various RDBMS, NoSQL, NewSQL technologies, including but not limited to Apache Ignite, Apache Spark, Hadoop, MongoDB and 3rd party platforms like DataStax, DataSynapse, etc.
• Solid understanding of web services, micro-services architecture, messaging platforms and technologies
• Experience with DevOps tools and methodologies as well as various security protocols, design patterns and technologies
• Familiarity with cloud-based architectures and deployments in AWS, Azure or other public/private cloud infrastructures
• Development experience in Agile and waterfall methodologies
• Solid problem solving, analytical abilities, consulting and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of business and in a global and regional team environment
• Strong customer focus and relationship management skills
• Self-organized and able to thrive under pressure

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, national origin or disability.