The Teradata Developer Experience team is growing and looking for a passionate and skilled Principal Developer Advocate whose main goal will be to empower developers to build on Teradata and be the voice of the Teradata developer community. As a developer advocate, you'll help create and grow the developer community. You will engage with developers from all customer segments/partners and create compelling resources such as demos, code samples, documentation, how-to guides, and blog posts.
Through the Teradata Developer Experience team, you will shape how solutions get built for our customers -- the largest enterprises on the planet -- and hardest data problems in existence. You will be focused on helping developers be successful with Teradata and enabling our teams to better serve them.
Responsibilities:
- Drive awareness and motivate developers to build applications/integrations on Teradata.
- Be hands-on. Create and share content and technical resources that will enable partners and their developers to become successful, such as blogs, demos, API mocks, code samples, documentation, how-to guides, and tutorials.
- Participate, monitor, manage and grow online developer communities such as Stackoverflow, GitHub, private forums, etc.
- Participate in internal and external technical analytics and data communities, building strong relationships with engineers, architects, product managers and partners.
- Provide technical expertise in developing partner strategy based on the gap analyses.
- Review, test, and provide feedback on partner integrations, and define and help implement processes that will improve the developer experience.
- Establish KPIs to measure success and impact of the Developer Experience team.
- Communicate developer requirements and provide input to product management on feature enhancements and future product direction as it relates to developer tools and integration needs.
- Work with partner alliance and product management team to investigate technical integration options for identified partners that leverage Vantage’s ability to differentiate.
- Follow technology and market trends and be able to formulate a point of view on their impact to the Vantage platform and partner portfolio
Qualifications:
Required:
- Passionate about data, analytics, APIs and developer experience
- Experience in developer education, developer relations, and technical writing
- Experience writing blogs, code samples, demos, or tutorials with modern development technologies such as Java, C#, Python, Ruby, etc.
- Experience with common developer and API tools such as SDKs, IDEs, API Design, OAS, Postman, etc.
- Experience managing code repositories such as GitHub.
- 5+ years strong technical understanding of analytic data warehousing, data platforms and the deployment ecosystem.
- 10+ years strong technical understanding of design patterns for developing and deploying analytics
- 5+ years In-depth technical understanding of API design and related tooling.
- Experience of working within cross-functional teams (developer relations, product management, marketing support, technical sales, etc.)
- Hands on experience with analytic tools
- Familiarity with analytic ecosystem including data ingestion, data management, model development (e.g. ML/DL frameworks, data science platforms, AutoML), model deployment (e.g. analytic ops, collaboration tools, model monitoring).
- Strong written and communication skills with the ability to explain technical details to technical and non-technical audiences
Nice to have:
- 5+ years strong technical expertise in Teradata Vantage features and capabilities
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