Certification Manager

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · AMER, EMEA · Support Services

This role is for a Certification Manager at ClickHouse, a cloud company specializing in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The manager will own and expand the certification program, developing performance-based exams for technical audiences, creating job task analyses, grading exams, and building a community around certified professionals. The role requires experience in developing technical certification exams, SQL knowledge, and technical breadth in areas like DBMS and distributed systems. While the company deals with AI workloads, this specific role focuses on the certification of users and professionals related to their core database technology, not on building or researching AI models themselves.

What you'd actually do

  1. Developing performance-based, hands-on ClickHouse certification exams on ClickHouse use cases like real-time analytics, observability and data warehousing
  2. Working with company SME's to create job task analyses for exams
  3. Grading and maintaining all certification exams, including writing grading scripts
  4. Developing quizzes for our course-completion badges
  5. Writing and deploying quizzes for ClickHouse credentials

Skills

Required

  • Experience developing certification exams and quizzes for a highly technical audience
  • SQL
  • Technical breadth and depth in DBMS, OLAP, Cloud/SaaS platforms, distributed systems software engineering, and big data
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability
  • Ability to learn new technologies quickly and effectively
  • Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of experience in certification in the technical software industry
  • Experience with curriculum development or instruction for databases and/or distributed systems
  • Experience with ClickHouse database
  • Experience with one or more Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Experience building software certification exams
  • Ability to work cross-functionally amongst engineering, support, product and development teams
  • Technical degree (e.g. Computer Science or related field)

What the JD emphasized

  • Proven experience developing certification exams and quizzes for a highly technical audience like software engineers and database developers
  • Experience with SQL
  • Technical breadth and depth in relevant subjects such as DBMS, OLAP, Cloud/SaaS platforms, distributed systems software engineering, and big data