Sr. Consultant - Central - (Springfield, IL)

JOB SUMMARY: Cloudera is seeking an experienced Sr. Consultant to join our team in the Central region. This key role has 2 major responsibilities: 1st to work directly with our customers and partners to optimize their plans and objectives for architecting, designing and deploying Apache Hadoop environments, and, secondly, to assist in building or designing reference configurations to enable our customers and influence our product. The Sr. Consultant will facilitate the communication flow between Cloudera teams and the customer. For these strategically important roles, we are seeking outstanding talent to join our team. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Work directly with customer s technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements * Analyze complex distributed production deployments, and make recommendations to optimize performance * Able to document and present complex architectures for the customers technical teams