Consulting Architect, Public Sector - Netherlands

Distributed Locations: The Netherlands Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role:

Elastic has seen significant growth in its work within the Public Sector over the last few years. This role will focus on delivery but also to lead the stakeholder relationships at the highest levels of Government and to work with them to help align Elastic to their strategic objectives. You will have the opportunity to work with a tremendous services, engineering and sales team and wear many hats. This is a critical role, as Consultants have an amazing chance to make an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and our customers. Given the opportunity and the organisations that you will be working with, you must be a current holder of Security clearance.

What You Will Be Doing:

Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
The ability to easily pivot from delivery to strategic engagements with customers
To work with the wider Elastic organisation to support the customer’s goals, their strategic requirements and their journey with Elastic.
Ownership of the strategic roadmap with the customer including quarterly strategic sessions with senior and key stakeholders either in one or a number of customers with common goals.
Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments
Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack
Data modelling, query development and optimisation, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
Solving our customers’ most challenging data problems
Working closely with the Elastic engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions.
Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions or concerns

What You Bring:

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 working to deliver and execute on professional services engagements
Currently holding security clearance
Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers developers and other technical positions
Excel at working directly with customers to gather prioritise plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
Understanding and passion for open-source technology knowledge proficient in at least one programming language
Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture development perspective
Knowledge of information retrieval or analytics domain
The nature of work requires high percentage onsite work with customers expected travel due this requirement
Understanding Linux Java databases

Bonus Points:

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

Additional Information - We Take Care Of Our People:

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Competitive pay based work here not previous salary
Health coverage family many locations
Ability craft calendar flexible locations schedules many roles
Generous number vacation days each year
Increase impact We match up $2000 (or local currency equivalent) financial donations service
Up to 40 hours each year use toward volunteer projects love
Embracing parenthood minimum16 weeks parental leave

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