Solution Architect, Aiven
OEM
+ Equity
Open source cloud data management platform
Open for applications
Open source cloud data management platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Aiven aims to be the world’s leading cloud data platform – by making developer’s lives better.
Role
Who you are
- This critical role requires a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, database technologies, and solution architecture principles, combined with exceptional communication and collaboration skills
What the job involves
- We're seeking a highly skilled and customer-focused Solution Architect (SA) - OEM to be the technical expert and champion for our strategic OEM partners
- You will be responsible for guiding our OEM partners in designing, implementing, and optimizing solutions from Aiven Data Platform, ensuring they achieve their business objectives and deliver exceptional value to their customers. You will be a trusted advisor, helping partners navigate the complexities of the Aiven platform and architect solutions that are scalable, secure, and cost-effective
- Technical Expertise & Solution Design
- Platform Mastery: Develop and maintain expert-level knowledge of the Aiven Data Platform, including all services, features, and capabilities
- Solution Architecture: Collaborate with OEM partners to design and architect robust, scalable, and secure solutions to meet their specific business and technical requirements. This includes continuous evolution of services’ implementation to meet partners current and future needs
- Use Case Enablement: Guide partners in building architectures that effectively support their customers' diverse use cases, providing best practices and tailored recommendations
- Optimization & Rightsizing: Proactively analyze partner deployments, identify opportunities for optimization and rightsizing, and provide recommendations to ensure optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability
- Technical Guidance: Provide expert technical guidance and support to OEM partners throughout the entire solution lifecycle, from initial design to implementation and ongoing operation
- Partner Enablement & Integration
- Integration Expertise: Assist partners in seamlessly integrating Aiven's services into their existing infrastructure and workflows, providing guidance on APIs, SDKs, and best practices
- Consumption Enablement: Help partners understand and effectively consume Aiven's services, maximizing their utilization and value
- Positioning & Messaging: Collaborate with partners to develop clear and compelling messaging that effectively positions their Aiven-powered solutions to their customers
- Technical Training & Workshops: Conduct technical training sessions and workshops for OEM partner teams, enabling them to effectively build, manage, and support solutions on the Aiven platform
- Documentation & Best Practices: Contribute to the development of technical documentation, best practices guides, and other resources to support OEM partner success
- Collaboration & Communication
- Internal Liaison: Serve as a technical liaison between OEM partners and Aiven's internal teams (Product, Engineering, Support), ensuring clear communication and efficient resolution of technical issues
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Sales, Technical Account Managers (TAMs), and other internal stakeholders to provide technical expertise and support throughout the partner lifecycle
- Relationship Building: Build strong, trust-based relationships with key technical stakeholders within OEM partner organizations, specifically engineering teams
- Feedback Loop: Actively solicit and gather feedback from partners on Aiven's platform, services, and documentation, sharing this feedback with internal teams to drive continuous improvement
Our take
Cloud computing presents massive implications for the way businesses use data, with cloud-based databases ensuring high uptime, frictionless scalability, and simple software integrations. However, achieving this requires setting up cloud databases in the first place, an obstacle that can be incredibly tough and prevent companies from migrating to cloud-based data infrastructure altogether.
Aiven provides an open-source cloud data management platform, allowing users to easily set up cloud databases, access cloud tool integrations, automate data infrastructural management, and control data security within a single platform. The platform integrates directly into open source data services such as Apache Kafka and OpenSearch, supports multi-cloud deployments, and includes built-in compliance, encryption, and end-to-end security features. In 2023, it added AI-powered data optimisation capabilities via its integration of EverSQL's engine into its products.
Whilst various companies are tackling the difficulties of setting up cloud databases, Aiven has smartly taken more of an all-in-one approach, tackling everything from the building and managing of databases to software integrations, multi-cloud hosting, and security. The company claims that its cloud data solutions can massively reduce the amount of time, money, and resources that businesses must spend to migrate to cloud-based data infrastructure.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$210m
SERIES D
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $420m
Company benefits
- Stock options for permanent employees
- Training/language courses & Aiven library
- Flexible work/life balance
- Private health and dental care
- Proper equipment to do your job
- Office snacks
Company HQ
Kamppi, Helsinki
Leadership
Oskari Saarenmaa
(CEO)Senior Software Engineer and Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2002 to 2011.CEO and Software Architect of Ohmu Ltd. from 2010 to 2016.
Heikki Nousiainen
(CTO)Experience as Information Security Specialist for TietoEnator. Lead Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2008 to 2015.
Hannu Valtonen
(CPO)Experience as Senior Software Engineer and Lead Architect for F-Secure Corporation. Software Architect and Partner of Ohmu Ltd. since 2010.
Mika Eloranta
(Chief Architect)Experience as Lead Software Engineer and Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 1998 to 2011. Software Architect and Partner of Ohmu Ltd. from 2010 to 2016.
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