Description

What makes us Qlik?

A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for 13 years in a row, Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster.

We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources, and our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities.

The Technical Architect Role

Qlik is searching for a Technical Architect with broad and deep knowledge of Windows, Linux, cloud services, security, and automation, along with strong communication skills and consulting services experience.

In this role, you will work with senior IT stakeholders alongside enterprise architects at our largest customers to undertake discovery, design and hands-on implementation of solutions that are secure, reliable, and scalable to tens of thousands of users.

You will support and advise Qlik’s customers in deploying Qlik Cloud and Client-managed products and helping them integrate these with their existing technology platforms and processes. To do so you need to be comfortable with the concepts of “dev-ops” methodologies, APIs, scripting, and security.

We seek out and reward ambitious people who learn quickly, enjoy exploring new technology, and like to work with other talented people on diverse teams. You must be willing to travel and to engage with a variety of customers remotely and on-site across the US.

What makes this role interesting?

• Thrive in a client-centric environment with a focus on the most challenging enterprise accounts.
• Keep pace with a constantly evolving cloud-first technology stack and champion this both internally and externally.
• Guide large enterprise customers to align with Qlik product strategy and to adopt best practices.
• Collaborate with global sales and product teams to deliver best-in-class solutions.
• Assist customers with high expectations while leading them to new levels of success.

Here’s how you’ll be making an impact:

• Deliver and lead consultative engagements in-person and remotely for key clients.
• Lead the analysis, architecture, design, and development of large-scale solutions on Qlik Cloud or for Qlik’s Client-managed products with enterprise clients.
• Document and present complex architectures to client technical teams.
• Solve complex client technical issues, support with version upgrades, migrations, and cutovers, and provide coaching to client technical staff on the Qlik platform.

We’re looking for a teammate with:

• Minimum of 5 to 10 years of experience managing internal and/or external clients in the delivery of large infrastructure solutions, including server, storage and network infrastructure planning.
• Understanding of Windows Server architecture – W2019, W2022, IIS and Active Directory.
• Hands on experience designing and deploying complex solutions in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or other cloud providers.
• Familiar with one or more server-side scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash).
• Experience developing automation solutions that use APIs.
• Understanding of application layer protocols, such as HTTP/S, TCP/IP, UDP and Web sockets.
• Demonstrated abilities with SSO-related software such as Azure AD, ADFS, SiteMinder, OpenSSO, Auth0, Okta or other SAML & OpenID Connect providers.
• Understanding of Web application security and concepts, such as Ticketing, header injection, XSS, SSL, HTTPS, Kerberos, certificates, Active Directory, LDAP, reverse proxies and firewalls.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong client-facing consultative skills, able to act as a customer advocate.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision or as part of a team.
• Able to multi-task and refocus based on changing priorities.
• Able to take ownership of projects and to show initiative.
• Familiar with auto-deployment of Windows and Linux-based software.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform and WS CloudFormation.
• Experience with deployment and configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
• Experience with Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery or other cloud data warehouses.
• Knowledge of clustering, fail-over and disaster recovery products and concepts such as MS Clustering Services, Load Balancing, Routers, LUNS, SAN and NAS.
• Familiarity with server hardware selection, design and troubleshooting.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree

The location for this role is:

• Remote East Coast or Central USA time zone
• Travel up to 20% depending on customer requirement
  

Apply now and help change how the world transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights and turns complex data challenges into new opportunities!

More about Qlik and who we are:

Find out more about life at Qlik on social: Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and X/Twitter, and to see all other opportunities to join us and our values, check out our Careers Page.

What else do we offer?

• Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs
• Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness
• Flexible, diverse, and international work environment

Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra “change the world” day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage participation in our Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $128,000 – $136,000 USD per year. This position is eligible for a commission within a range of $32,000 – $34,000 USD subject to meeting targets set forth in a sales compensation plan. Final compensation offered by Qlik will be based on factors such as the candidate’s location, job-related skills, education, experience, and other business and organizational needs. Qlik offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Qlik is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to fostering a workplace that is diverse, equitable and inclusive.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy and related medical conditions, genetic information, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. For United States applicants and employees, go to the US Department of Labor’s website to review the Equal Employment Opportunity Posters, including the “Know Your Rights” and “Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination” posters.

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Qlik is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Qlik via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Qlik. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Qlik as a result of the referral or through other means.