Cloud Architect; Data Lake​/Data Bricks SME

Location:

Raleigh, NC

Duration:
Long Term (18 months+ extension)

Hourly Rate:
Depends on Experience (DOE)

Work Authorization: US Citizen or Green Card holder. Non‑US citizens must have lawful permanent residency or work visas.

Cloud Architect (Data Lake / Databricks) SME

Our client seeks a Cloud architecture expert to support Delta Lake storage, big data and machine learning analytics (e.g., Apache Spark). As a technical expert, you advise on state‑of‑the‑art software/hardware solutions, multi‑capacity hardware, multi‑OS environments, database management systems, specialized software, data communications facilities and protocols including Value Added Networks, 4th generation technologies and complex software tools or packages. As a business expert, you work with senior client officials to identify enterprise improvement goals, assess organizational and process effectiveness and implement change strategies.

• Minimum 15 years of IT architecture / systems experience.
• 10 years of experience designing technical and business solutions, mentoring and training client staff, and overseeing implementation.
• Highly diverse technical and industry experience related to systems needs, development, process analysis, design, and reengineering.
• Possesses skills and experience related to business management, systems engineering, operations research and management engineering.
• Assist with deployment, configuration and management of Azure Cloud environment.
• Assist with migration efforts of existing ETL jobs into Azure/Databricks cloud environment.
• Assist ETL staff with cloud best practices, efficiency optimization and knowledge sharing.
• Assist with operationalizing deployments and cloud services for ETL operations, including automation, documentation and knowledge articles.
• Provide written and oral presentations to high‑level client CIO management on status of efforts.

• Strong skills and experience in cloud operations support in Azure.
• Strong experience supporting large‑scale / enterprise‑level cloud environments.
• Strong experience supporting cloud services (compute, network, databases, etc.).
• Experience using Databricks or other Spark‑based platforms.
• Knowledge / experience with Sqoop, Oozie, Flume.
• Fluency in scripting languages:
  Python, Perl, Ruby (or equivalent).
• Ability to troubleshoot cloud resource problems and perform complex system tests.
• Ability to automate solutions to repetitive problems / tasks.
• Experience with Git integration in continuous deployment.
• Experience with Dev Ops monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in always‑up / always‑available environments.
• Documentation skills for internal procedures and services.
• Strong communication skills with team members.

• SAS
• Python
• C++
• Hadoop
• SQL (Database / Coding)
• Apache Spark
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Visualization tools (Tableau)
• Demonstrated experience with unstructured data.
• Creative thinking and detail orientation.

• Strong understanding of cloud networking at scale.
• Ability to break down complex networking concepts and present concisely.
• Shell scripting experience.
• Power Shell.

• Monitoring (Infrastructure and Application‑specific)
• Troubleshooting
• Incident Alerting and Avoidance
• Dashboard Development
• Settings and Configuration
• Security
• Testing of platform/applications
• Preparing audit compliance reports

ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship / immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters.

Nor will ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract.