Elastic Consulting Architect - Public Sector

About the Role

Elastic is seeking a Consulting Architect to join our Public Sector team. This role focuses on delivery and leading high-level stakeholder relationships across Government, aligning Elastic’s strategic objectives with customer needs. You will work within a distributed team to solve complex data challenges and drive the success of our mission-critical deployments.

Note: This role requires a current UK Security Clearance.

What You Will Be Doing

• Strategic Engagement: Lead strategic roadmaps and quarterly sessions with senior stakeholders.
• Technical Delivery: Design, develop, and integrate Elastic products, APIs, and platform architectures.
• Customer Advocacy: Pivot between hands-on delivery and high-level strategic consulting.
• Data Optimization: Perform data modeling, query development, cluster tuning, and scaling for large-scale analytics.
• Collaboration: Work with Engineering, Product, and Sales teams to scope opportunities and identify feature enhancements.
• Knowledge Sharing: Develop demos, proof-of-concepts, and provide technical guidance to customers.

What You Bring Along

• Clearance: Must hold or be willing to undergo UK Security Clearance.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years in professional services/consulting and 2 years in Software Engineering, DevOps, or System Administration.
• Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch and/or Lucene.
• Distributed Systems: Strong background in large-scale architecture and development.
• Communication: Proven ability to act as a technical instructor and public speaker for enterprise audiences.
• Stack Knowledge: Proficiency in Linux, Java, and database technologies.
• Travel: Ability to travel for onsite customer engagements as required.

Why Elastic?

• Competitive pay based on role value.
• Flexible schedules and remote-first work environment.
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family.
• Generous vacation policy and volunteer time off (up to 40 hours/year).
• Financial matching for charitable donations.
• Minimum 16 weeks of parental leave.