Senior Solutions Engineer (Data Streaming)

Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain; hybrid work arrangement. Some travel may be required based on business demand.

Company

IBM Global Sales delivers technology and consulting solutions that help enterprise clients address complex business challenges through digital transformation.

What you will do

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to developers, architects, engineering leaders, CIOs, CTOs, and other senior stakeholders.
• Lead discovery, architecture discussions, workshops, demonstrations, evaluations, and technical storytelling.
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure data streaming architectures using event-driven patterns, APIs, cloud technologies, and modern data platforms.
• Identify workloads and use cases, define technical success criteria, and guide projects from scope and design through implementation and production.
• Partner with Account Executives, Customer Success, Technical Architects, Product, Engineering, Support, IBM, and specialists to advance customer outcomes and consumption.
• Maintain visibility into opportunities, risks, blockers, technical strategy, and expansion opportunities within assigned accounts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Strong experience in Solutions Engineering, Pre-Sales, Solution Architecture, Software Engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
• Strong knowledge of data streaming, distributed systems, and modern data architectures.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures, real-time data pipelines, integration patterns, APIs, and cloud technologies.
• Experience designing or advising on complex enterprise architectures.
• Strong discovery, communication, presentation, and technical storytelling skills, with the ability to connect technical requirements to business outcomes.
• Credibility with developers and architects and effective communication with CIOs, CTOs, and other senior stakeholders.
• Commercial mindset and understanding of how technical activity translates into customer value and consumption.
• Curiosity, ownership, and a collaborative approach to solving customer problems.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or other streaming technologies.
• Software engineering or hands-on architecture experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of databases, data warehouses, data lakes, analytics, and AI architectures.
• Experience in a consumption- or usage-based software business.
• Experience working with large, complex enterprise customers.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in Madrid with a regular daytime shift.
• Professional, collaborative environment focused on innovation, learning, trust, personal responsibility, and continuous development.
• Global organization operating across more than 175 countries.
• Regular employment position; the role is commissionable or sales-incentive based.
• Equal-opportunity employment and commitment to fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.