Senior Data Architect

Responsibilities

To handle program and ensure the integration and implementation of program element as per agree schedule with quality deliverables; Own and lead the pre-sales activities – Solutioning, Project Plans, Team levelling, build RFP responses using Powerpoint or MS Word and present to clients; Lead the solution and design across multiple Projects/Programs including the overall solution architecture, Data Architecture, Integration Architecture, Reporting Architecture; Work closely with the customer’s architects, business, and technical stakeholders to build trust and establish credibility; Provide points of view on customer direction to lead and guide towards the best outcome; Understand client technical problems, articulate, and detail the understanding and provide solutions related to AWS Cloud and Big Data Domains; Study existing technology landscape and understand current application workloads and Identify Improvements or suggest transformation Opportunities; Design and Architect solutions keeping key architectural principles like scalability, operational completion, and elasticity in mind; Be hands-on and be able to understand technical issues and fix as needed. Build client relationships; Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation. Build bill of materials, including required Cloud Services (such as EC2, S3 etc.); Partner with the account teams, delivery teams, product engineering and professional services sales executives to deliver business growth and customer success/ROI; Proactively engage & communicate to align expectations of internal and external customers; Operate in a fast-paced environment where you will be responsible for driving key strategic opportunities with our top customers in partnership with the sales and delivery teams; Build and maintain customer relationships through proactive and value add pre-sales engagements; Plan and lead workshops to uncover needs, identify customer business objectives and challenges to be solved; Lead in creating and presenting holistic services responses and proposals including services scope, staffing and roadmaps to deliver against customers objectives; Lead presales, solutioning and estimations; Build POC and Business case preparation etc. for the prospects/customers; Develop solution in highly fast paced environment and provide hands on mentorship to other team members; Design and build reusable solution frameworks, components, and data migration solutions; Head complex ETL requirements and design; Implement an ETL based solution fulfilling stringent performance requirements; Collaborate with product development teams and senior designers to develop architectural requirements to ensure client satisfaction with product; Conduct impact assessment and figure out size of effort based on requirements; Develop full SDLC project plans to implement ETL solution and identify resource requirements; Perform as active, leading role in shaping and enhancing overall ETL architecture; Identify, recommend and implement ETL process, standards and architecture improvements; Assist and verify design of solution and production of all design phase deliverables; Manage build phase and quality assure code to ensure fulfilling requirements and adhering to ETL architecture; Resolve difficult design and develop issues; Identify bugs when developers are not able to do so.

Requirements

Engineering Degree or equivalent; 15+ years of work experience in the Data and Analytics space; Hands on experience on Multiple ETL/BI tools Talend/SSIS/Abinitio/Informatica; Hands on experience on Cloud Technologies like AWS, Databricks, Airflow etc.

Nice to have

Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; Good analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to handle team and client discussions; 10-15 years of experience working in a top-tier consulting or consulting within a technology company / product vendor; Experience working in senior technical roles such as enterprise architect, solution architect, solution lead; Exceptional communication skills - compelling, clear and concise; High degree of intellectual curiosity and ability to learn and apply new concepts and technologies to solve business problems; Ability to clearly articulate technical solutions in language and depth relevant to different stakeholders: customers technical teams and as well business and marketing stakeholders; Team player who can collaborate with multiple stakeholders to meet tight deadlines to arrive at solution and services proposals and initial responses; Willingness to travel up to 10-15% of the time; Technical degree with advanced degree preferred.