Senior Solutions Consultant, Data Observability and AI Platform

Location: Kitchener, on-site. The role may require travel of up to 50% of the time to meet with customers and support work across different time zones.

Company

hirify.global develops enterprise data platforms and data observability products for hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.

What you will do

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of customer deployments across xDP (xLake), ODP (Open Data Platform), and ADOC (hirify.global Data Observability Cloud).
• Design, deploy, configure, and optimize distributed data platforms for complex enterprise environments.
• Work with infrastructure, security, and database teams to design secure and scalable architectures.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure problems and support production readiness.
• Translate technical trade-offs into clear recommendations for engineers and senior customer stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of customer-facing technical consulting, enterprise product implementation, data platform architecture, and complex migration experience.
• Prior FDE, professional-services, or consulting experience in enterprise settings.
• Hands-on experience implementing distributed data platforms, hybrid infrastructure, and data observability tools, including the ability to independently deliver deployments across ODP, xDP, and ADOC.
• Understanding of data observability, data quality, pipeline monitoring, data reliability, metadata management, and data governance.
• Kubernetes experience and the ability to solve complex problems with little daily supervision.
• Hands-on programming experience in Python, Java, or Scala, plus shell scripting.
• Practical enterprise security experience with Kerberos, SSL/TLS, LDAP/AD, and Apache Ranger.
• Familiarity with several of Spark, Kafka, NiFi, Trino, Ozone, and MLflow, rather than all of them.
• Experience delivering into regulated, secured, or air-gapped environments.
• Experience managing Cloudera CDH/CDP or Hortonworks HDP distributions.
• Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical trade-offs to engineers and senior stakeholders, with the autonomy to drive complex work independently.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and willingness to work across different time zones.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture with full ownership of real, high-impact problems from day one.
• On-site, full-time position in Kitchener with customer-facing responsibilities.
• Travel of up to 50% may be required.