Cloud Data Platform Engineer; Enterprise Data Services

Job Title:

Cloud Data Platform Architect (Contract) - Job#5952

Location:

Remote

The Cloud Data Platform Architect will play a critical role in designing, building, and evolving enterprise-scale data platforms and analytics systems. This role partners across engineering, analytics, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable, high-performance cloud data solutions that support advanced analytics, reporting, and operational intelligence. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, strong architectural vision, and the ability to translate business needs into robust data platforms.

• Understand technology vision and strategic direction of business needs
• Understand our current data model and infrastructure, proactively identify gaps, areas for improvement, and prescribe architectural recommendations with a focus on performance and accessibility.
• Partner across engineering teams to design, build, and support the next generation of our analytics systems.
• Partner with business and analytics teams to understand specific requirements for data systems to support both development and deployment of data workloads ranging from Tableau reports to ad hoc analyses.
• Own and develop architecture supporting the translation of analytical questions into effective reports that drive business action.
• Automate and optimize existing data processing workloads by recognizing patterns of data and technology usage and implementing solutions.
• Solid grasp of the intersection between analytics and engineering while maintaining a proactive approach to assure solutions demonstrate high levels of performance, privacy, security, scalability, and reliability upon deployment.
• Provide guidance to partners on effective use of the database management systems (DBMS) platform through collaboration, documentation, and associated standard methodologies.
• Design and build end to end automation to support and maintain software currency.
• Create automation services for builds using Terraform, Python, and OS shell scripts.
• Develop validation and certification process through automation tools.
• Design integrated solutions in alignment with design patterns, blueprints, guidelines, and standard methodologies for products.
• Participate in developing solutions by incorporating cloud native and 3rd party vendor products.
• Participate in research and perform POCs (proofs of concept) with emerging technologies and adopt industry best practices in the data space for advancing the cloud data platform.
• Develop data streaming, migration and replication solutions.
• Demonstrate leadership, collaboration, exceptional communication, negotiation, strategic and influencing skills to gain consensus and produce the best solutions.

• Demonstrates mutual respect, embraces diversity, and acts with authenticity
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience; advance degree preferred
• 7+ years of experience in designing and building large-scale solutions in an enterprise setting in both
• 3+ years in designing and building solutions in the cloud
• Expertise in building and managing Cloud databases such as AWS RDS, Dynamo
  
  DB, Document
  
  DB or analogous architectures
• Expertise in building Cloud Database Management Systems in Databricks Lakehouse or analogous architectures
• Expertise in Cloud Data Warehouses in Redshift, Big Query or analogous architectures a plus
• Deep SQL expertise, data modeling, and experience with data governance in relational databases
• Experience with the practical application of data warehousing concepts, methodologies, and frameworks using traditional (Vertica, Teradata, etc.) and current (Spark
  
  SQL, Hadoop, Kafka) distributed technologies
• Refined skills using one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, bash, etc.)
• Experience using ETL/ELT tools and technologies such as Talend, Informatica a plus
• Embrace data platform thinking, design and develop data pipelines keeping security, scale, uptime and reliability in mind
• Expertise in relational and dimensional data modeling
• UNIX admin and general server administration experience required
• Presto, Hive,…