As a full spectrum AWS integrator, we assist hundreds of companies to realize
the value, efficiency, and productivity of the cloud. We take customers on their
journey to enable, operate, and innovate using cloud technologies – from
migration strategy to operational excellence and immersive transformation.
If you like a challenge, you’ll love it here, because we’re solving complex
business problems every day, building and promoting great technology solutions
that impact our customers’ success. The best part is, we’re committed to you and
your growth, both professionally and personally.
Overview
As a Big Data Architect, you are passionate about data and technology solutions,
are driven to learn about them and keep up with market evolution. You will play
an active role in delivering modern data solutions for clients including data
ingestion/data pipeline design and implementation, data warehouse & data lake
architectures, cognitive computing and cloud services. You are enthusiastic
about all things data, have strong problem-solving and analytical skills, are
tech savvy and have a solid understanding of software development.
If you get a thrill working with cutting-edge technology and love to help solve
customers’ problems, we’d love to hear from you. It’s time to rethink the
possible. Are you ready?
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What you’ll be doing:
- Lead, define and implement end-to-end modern data platforms in support of
analytics and AI use cases
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, data architects, ETL developers &
engineers, data scientists, and information designers to lead identification
and definition of required data structures, formats, pipelines, metadata, and
workload orchestration capabilities
- Address aspects such as data privacy & security, data ingestion & processing,
data storage & compute, analytical & operational consumption, data modeling,
data virtualization, self-service data preparation & analytics, AI
enablement, and API integrations
- Be the technical liaison between customers and engineering teams
- Directly collaborate with the sales team to formulate and execute a sales
strategy to facilitate the adoption of AWS and big data technologies and help
build offerings
- Be an AWS evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWS
and AWS’s Data services
- Traveling up to 50% of the time
Qualifications & Experience:
- 5+ years experience leading engagements from design to implementation of
creative data solutions leveraging the latest in Big Data frameworks,
supporting on-premise, cloud (Ideally AWS) and hybrid architectures to enable
use cases in analytics and AI
- 5+ years experience architecting solutions for optimal extraction,
transformation and loading of data from a wide variety of traditional and
non-traditional sources such as structured, unstructured, and semi-structured
using SQL, NoSQL and data pipelines for real-time, streaming, batch and
on-demand workloads
- 3+ years experience with analytics/data management strategy formulation,
architectural blueprinting, business case development and effort estimation
of disruptor based analytics
- 3+ years working in the cloud or multi-server complex environments.
Experience with AWS a requirement.
- Ability to simplify complex technical concepts into an easy-to-understand
non-technical language in order to facilitate, communicate and interact with
executives and business stakeholders
- Experience with Agile development methods in data-oriented projects
Strong candidates will also have some of the following capabilities:
- Strong SQL, Database, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing and Development skills
- Strong programming / scripting experience using various languages such as
Java, .NET, Python, Scala, Javascript, etc.
- Experience in Cloud Big Data & Analytics Services on the cloud (AWS preferred
ie. S3, Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue, Quicksigh,, etc.)
- Experience with Dashboarding and Reporting Tools used in the Industry
(Tableau, Qlik, etc.)
- Experience with industry ETL tools (Informatica, Talend, SSIS, etc.)
- Have strong people management skills: leading teams, training, onboarding,
offboarding, etc.
- Certifications in architecture, data engineering and development from AWS
(Preferred)
- Subject matter data expertise in Financial Services (Banking, Insurance),
Consumer Products (Retail), Energy & Resources, Life Sciences (Healthcare)
and Government (Transport, Higher Ed, Social Services) industries
- Experience with implementation of data security, encryption, PII/PSI
legislation, identity and access management across sources and environments
- Knowledge of software configuration management environments and tools such as
JIRA, Git, Jenkins, TFS, Shell, powershell, Bitbucket, etc.
Educational Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in quantitative areas such as Computer Science,
Information Management, Big Data & Analytics, or a related field is desired
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About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the
world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to
deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers
based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and
managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best
place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we
attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace
technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
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goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring
our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique
perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and
communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know
that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to
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information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status,
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