Data/Information Architect

Mandatory Skills: Azure Databricks, Azure data lake, Ansible, SQL, Terraform, Kafka , Azure CLI, Databricks CLI, PowerShell and/or Bash. What Could Set You Apart

• Must have designed the E2E architecture of unified data platform covering all the aspects of data lifecycle starting from Data Ingestion, Transformation, operations, and consumption.
• Experience in handling the key activities for the Enterprise Architecture practice for a specific sector.
• Managing and mentoring architecture talent in the respective sector
• Should have delivered architecture initiatives and showcased clear business efficiency in line with business strategies. Should have taken end-end responsibility & accountability in terms of architecture.
• Should have delivered architecture roadmaps and develop delivery blueprints for the technology design.
• Excellent communication skills and customer management skills
• Should be able to deliver architectural initiatives in the space of digital, cloud, open-source technologies. Should have performed a similar role & capacity for large transformational engagements.
• Hands on development Design and Develop applications using Databricks. Experience with Azure, AWS, or other cloud technologies
• In depth understanding of Spark Architecture including Spark Core, Spark SQL, Data Frames, Spark Streaming, RDD caching, Spark MLib.
• Good to have any programming language experience with Python/ SQL or Spark/Scala.
• Strong understanding of Data Modeling and defining conceptual logical and physical data models.
• To be successful in this role, this individual must be familiar with data integration, data modeling, data warehousing, big data technologies, and should be the subject matter expert.
• Maintains close awareness of new and emerging technologies and their potential application for service offerings and products.
• Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for cloud-centric solutions based on industry standards using IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities.
• Experience building and supporting mission-critical technology components with DR capabilities.
• Experience with multi-tier system and service design & development for large enterprises
• Exposure to infrastructure and application security technologies and approaches
• Familiarity with requirements gathering techniques.

Required Qualifications

• Must have excellent coding skills either Python or Scala, preferably Python.
• Must have at least 10+ years of experience in architecture, design, implementation, and analytics solutions with total of 12+ years in Data Engineering domain.
• Must have designed and implemented at least 2-3 projects end-to-end in Databricks.
• Must have at least 3+ years of experience in databricks which consists of various components as below.
• Delta lake
• dbConnect
• db API 2.0
• SQL Endpoint Photon engine
• Unity Catalog
• Databricks workflows orchestration
• Security management
• Platform governance
• Data Security
• Must have followed various architectural principles to design best suited per problem.
• Must be well versed with Databricks Lakehouse concept and its implementation in enterprise environments.
• Must have strong understanding of Data warehousing and various governance and security standards around Databricks.
• Must have knowledge of cluster optimization and its integration with various cloud services.
• Must have good understanding to create complex data pipelines.
• Must be strong in SQL and spark-sql.
• Must have strong performance optimization skills to improve efficiency and reduce cost.
• Must have worked on designing both Batch and streaming data pipeline.
• Must have extensive knowledge of Spark and Hive data processing framework.
• Must have worked on any cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) and most common services like ADLS/S3, ADF/Lambda, Cloud databases.
• Must be strong in writing unit test case and integration test.
• Must have strong communication skills and have worked with cross-platform teams.
• Must have great attitude towards learning new skills and upskilling the existing skills.
• Responsible for setting best practices around Databricks CI/CD.
• Must understand composable architecture to take full advantage of Databricks capabilities.
• Experience with machine learning tools such as mlFlow, Databricks AI/ML, Azure ML, AWS sagemaker, etc.
• Experience in distilling complex technical challenges to actionable decisions for stakeholders and guiding project teams by building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary.
• Experience coordinating the intersection of complex system dependencies and interactions.
• Experience in solution delivery using common methodologies especially SAFe Agile but also Waterfall, Iterative, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Good to have Rest API knowledge.
• Good to have understanding around cost distribution.
• Good to have knowledge on migration project to build Unified data platform.
• Good to have knowledge of DBT.
• Experience around DevSecOps including docker and Kubernetes.
• Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries, and tools
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash etc.
• Experience with data ingestion technologies such as Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Pentaho, Alteryx.
• Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI.
• Demonstrated knowledge of relevant industry trends and standards

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