Big Data Solutions Architect Job Description

Big Data Solutions Architect Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Big Data Solutions Architect to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Defines high-level migration plans to address gaps in current state;
  • Delivers technology architecture artifacts, possibly including reference architectures or concepts of operation;
  • Understands industry trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies;
  • Designs and owns governance, assurance, and standards activities for enterprise technology architecture compliance;
  • Drives digital innovation and develops roadmaps through new technologies and approaches to fulfill strategic business plans;
  • Oversees and facilitates the evaluation, risk assessment, selection, and design of hardware and software technology and product standards;
  • Works with business partners to analyze strategy and trends to define the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions;
  • Communicates and enforces technology standards with business partners;
  • Coaches, mentors, and leads technical subject matters experts to enable and drive consistency across technology architectures;
  • Performs other related duties as assigned;
  • Build analytics tools that utilize big data pipeline to provide actionable insights (HiveMQ, Kafka, Cassandra, S3, Redshift).

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree;
  • Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc;
  • Passion for technology &/or domains;
  • Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc;
  • Utility Knowledge &/or Expertise;
  • Innovations / Patent examples;
  • AWS hands on experience and AWS cloud architect or big data certification a plus;
  • Experience with implementing disruptive technologies in an organization;
  • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases;
  • Experience in a start-up&/or entrepreneurial venture;
  • Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift, Glue;
  • Complex & high volume cloud implementations;
  • Technically multi-faceted (web development, network, distributed databases, big data, mobility, etc.);
  • Bachelor’s or Equivalent Experience;
  • High School Grad / GED.