Consulting Architect, Public Sector

Consulting Architect, Public Sector - UK

Join Elastic, the Search AI Company, to apply the role of Consulting Architect for the Public Sector in the UK.

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter.

By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

Elastic has seen significant growth in its work within the Public Sector over the last few years. This role will focus on delivery and lead stakeholder relationships at the highest levels of Government to help align Elastic to their strategic objectives.

You will work with a tremendous services, engineering, and sales team and wear many hats. This is a critical role, where Consultants can make an immediate impact on the success of Elastic and its customers.

Given the opportunity and the organisations you will be working with, you must be a current holder of Security clearance.

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• Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills
• The ability to pivot easily from delivery to strategic engagements with customers
• Work with the wider Elastic organization to support the customer’s goals, strategic requirements, and their journey with Elastic
• Ownership of the strategic roadmap with the customer, including quarterly strategic sessions with senior and key stakeholders across one or more customers with common goals
• Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission‑critical environments
• Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
• Development of demos and proof‑of‑concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack
• Data modelling, query development and optimisation, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
• Solving customers’ most challenging data problems
• Work closely with Elastic engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions
• Engage with Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns

• Hands‑on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or Dev Ops Engineer
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working as a Consultant, delivering and executing professional services engagements
• Currently holding UK security clearance
• Experience as a technical instructor or public speaker to large audiences on enterprise infrastructure software technology to engineers, developers, and other technical positions
• Excel at gathering, prioritising, planning and executing solutions to customer business requirements related to our technologies
• Understanding and passion for open‑source technology and proficiency in at least one programming language
• Hands‑on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective
• Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
• Work will require a high percentage of onsite work with customers and travel as a result of this requirement
• Understanding of Linux, Java, and databases

• Deep understanding of Elasticsearch and Lucene, including Elastic Certified Engineer certification
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
• Strong knowledge of Java and Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with distributed systems
• Experience and interest in delivering or developing product training
• Experience contributing to an open‑source project or documentation

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your…