Consultant Pivotal

Job Location: Paris (Bezons), France

At Pivotal, our mission is to enable customers to build a new class of applications, leveraging big and fast data, and do all of this with the power of cloud-independence. Uniting selected technology, people and programs from EMC and VMware, the following leading products and services are now part of Pivotal: Greenplum (DB and HD), Cloud Foundry, Spring, GemFire/SQLFire, RabbitMQ, Cetas, tc Server, Pivotal Labs and Data Science Labs.

The Professional Services team is looking for a hands-on Grid/Data-Caching/High Performance Computing Architect for France. The candidate will be part of EMEA South Consulting team and will cover mainly the French market. The successful candidate should have a strong background developing high performance Java applications. Work includes distributed locking/leasing algorithms, data partitioning, querying and indexing, filtered views, asynchronous persistence, C++ interoperability, shared memory management, reliable multicast, and other distributed algorithms.

Job Summary

· Determine product gaps for client engagements and participate in the specification, design, implementation, testing, UAT and PROD migration and support, validation and support of necessary features

· Work onsite on one or multiple client sites in conjunction with Pivotal product consulting services engagements. Estimated travel for on-site work is 75% or greater

· Where business needs and pre-sales requirements dictate, consultants may be called upon to (alone or with a team) execute client Proof of Concepts (POC) evaluations and product benchmarks. Estimated travel for on-site client POC efforts is 25%-50% where applicable

· Work in conjunction with Field Engineering and/or Product Engineering and Technical Support to resolve customer issues in pre-sales and POC engagements

· Participate in improving existing features and product performance

Qualifications required:

· Any prior experience with GemFire, Coherence or Gigaspaces (Terradata, Scale-Out or similar products also desirable) is a definite plus

· Strong Java development skills with 5+ years concurrent programming, testing, and profiling experience

· C# programming experience is required, C++ development experience is highly desired as well
-5+ years’ experience working directly with customers to design, develop, and support customized software products

· Proven ability to design, model, implement, and test high performance software for mission critical applications

· Candidate should have a good understanding of distributed computing concepts and networking principles

· A broad knowledge of Java technologies (XML, Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, JDBC, JMS, JMX, etc.) is very desirable

· Customer-focused history of designing, delivering, and supporting software solutions to real world problems

· Proven ability to master new technology and application domains (e.g. Financial, scientific, and industrial)

· Bachelor or equivalent in Computer Science or Mathematics, with coursework in Distributed Systems

· Able to multitask and meet aggressive deadlines

· Ability to do technical presentations internally or at a customer site Analytical ability, problem solving skills and decision making skills

· Customer focused and results driven

· Good command of spoken and written English

Job ID: 114454BR

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