[Hiring] Principal Sales Engineer @Rocket Companies

Role Description

As a Presales Solutions Consultant, you will play a key role in demonstrating how Vertica can simplify complex data challenges, optimize workloads, and meet the performance, governance, and sovereignty requirements of enterprises across South Korea.

• Establish trusted technical relationships with customers across your assigned Korea territory, working in tandem with Account Executives to deliver successful customer outcomes.
• Act as a technical expert in large-scale analytics, showcasing how Vertica’s architecture, performance model, and hybrid capabilities solve customers’ most demanding workloads.
• Lead solution design, POCs, demos, performance analysis, and cost optimization to support adoption of Vertica.
• Produce reference architecture, best-practice guides, workshops, and technical enablement materials for both customers and internal teams.
• Represent Vertica within the regional community by hosting technical sessions, meetups, hands-on labs, and industry-focused discussions.
• Develop deep expertise as a technical or industry specialist (e.g., Financial Services, Telco, Public Sector, Retail/CPG, Manufacturing, or Data Platform Modernization).
• Experience for the other players in the market (Teradata, Oracle, Netezza, Snowflake, Databricks or Hadoop).

Qualifications

• Strong experience engaging customers in technical sales or solution architecture roles, ideally in analytics, data platforms, or hybrid cloud solutions.
• Ability to context-switch between business value conversations and deep technical discussions.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale SQL analytics, data modelling, workload optimization, and POC delivery.
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Java, Scala, Bash, etc.).
• Practical experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including network, object storage, security, and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Excellent documentation skills: architecture diagrams, POC reports, cost analysis, migration blueprints.
• Ability to work independently across a geographically distributed team (APAC).
• Full working rights in South Korea; English fluency required.

Requirements

• Own technical discovery, requirements analysis, scoping, solution design, and POC execution.
• Present architecture options clearly across audiences—from CTO/CIO stakeholders to data engineers and architects.
• Optimize analytical workloads through projection design, partitioning, resource management, Eon Mode scaling, and cost/performance tuning.
• Design and validate migration strategies from legacy EDWs, cloud data warehouses, and Hadoop/Spark-based environments.
• Integrate Vertica with Kafka, Spark, DBT, Airflow, ETL, and BI/AI ecosystems.
• Architect hybrid or multi-cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP), including networking, object storage (S3/GCS/ADLS), and Kubernetes-based operations via Vertica DB Operator.
• Advise on RBAC, encryption, auditing, masking/tokenization, private networking, and data governance controls.
• Support customers navigating Korean data sovereignty requirements, including APRA CPS-234, government frameworks, and regulated industry best practice.
• Deliver workshops, hands-on labs, performance deep dives, and industry-aligned solution briefs.
• Support partner ecosystem enablement across SI, CSP, and ISV relationships.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Wellness programs.
• Learning and certification support.
• Benefits aligned with the Korean market.