About the Role:

Join Confluent's globally recognized Executive Advisory team and help shape the future of real-time data and organizational transformation for some of the world's leading enterprises. As an Executive Advisor, you will work with C-level executives and technical leaders in major organizations—guiding them to adopt, scale, and maximize value from data streaming platforms.

What You Will Do:

• Lead strategic advisory engagements with major enterprise customers (e.g. global banks, retailers, manufacturers, telecoms, healthcare, technology firms), supporting digital transformation through real-time data streaming.

• Partner directly with executive stakeholders to develop strategic visions, organizational structures, and technology roadmaps for enterprise adoption of event streaming.

• Design and deliver tailored customer workshops, playbacks, and executive reviews—benchmarking capabilities, facilitating transformation, and documenting pathways to measurable business outcomes.

• Author, adapt, and share practical frameworks and industry best practices on data streaming—covering ways of working, governance models, platform adoption, and data product lifecycle.

• Drive the development of Centers of Excellence (CoEs) for event streaming, enabling organizations to scale from pilot projects to platform-wide adoption, aligning both top-down executive buy-in and grassroots enablement.

• Produce and present thought leadership content: blueprints, assessment tools, strategic guides, and public presentations to shape the market’s understanding of Data Streaming Organizations.

• Act as a trusted sponsor and advisor to align Confluent resources for customer success, and facilitate their journey to become real-time, data-driven enterprises.

• Mentor internal talent and support team-wide capability building

What You Will Bring:

• Demonstrated experience in an executive advisory, enterprise architecture, technology consulting, or senior solutions role, ideally with exposure to large-scale, real-time or data-centric transformations.

• Proven ability to engage, influence, and advise C-level and technical stakeholders at major organizations.

• Experience designing operating models, ways of working, and governance for technology platforms such as data streaming, cloud, analytics, or enterprise integration.

• Thought leadership—experience producing technical frameworks, playbooks, or industry-leading content; strong presentation and facilitation skills.

• Strategic mindset with hands-on technical acumen; able to synthesize best practices and deliver practical solutions in complex, ambiguous environments.

• Passion for organizational change, platform adoption, and creating market impact through both strategic and operational initiatives.

What Gives You an Edge:

• Knowledge of Apache Kafka and/or other streaming technologies

• Proficiency in other languages

• Experience designing strategic big data, stream processing, and/or other distributed systems for Fortune 1000 companies

• Experience working with global teams