Principal Big Data Architect
KION GroupAbout the role
What we offer:
What We Offer:
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer
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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $94,000.00 - $198,000.00 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge and skills.
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Tasks and Qualifications:
This is What You Will do in This Role:
- Design and develop the overall big data architecture, ensuring it aligns with the company's strategic objectives and business requirements.
- Lead all data platform initiatives: Data Lake Strategy, Data Governance, Data Security and Compliance, Data Platform Cloud Infrastructure, MLOps and Master Data Management.
- Develop data models and data integration patterns for various data sources, enabling seamless data flow across the enterprise.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team, ensuring best practices and standards are followed in big data projects.
What We are Looking For:
- 5+ years of industry experience architecting and designing holistic Big Data Platforms
- Expertise in Big Data Platform architecture with a focus on scalability, performance, and cost to serve.
- Expert level hand-on experience in cloud technologies in GCP, AWS or Azure (preferably GCP)
- Expertise in architecting, designing, and building end to end data platforms in the GCP environment using BigQuery and other services while adhering to best practices guidelines such as open standards, cost, performance, time to market and minimize vendor lock.
- Hands-on experience in architecting and designing solutions using Big Data table formats like Apache Iceberg, Apache Druid or Apache Delta Lake
- Proficient in setting up and defining observability tools and metrics, including Grafana, Splunk, Datadog.
- Expert level understanding and experience designing cloud Data models.
- Working knowledge of Python, Java, Pyspark, Airflow.
- Expertise in enterprise data management policies and principles with a focus on data lineage and data cataloging strategy
- Deep expertise of architectural patterns for real-time and batch data processing at large scale.
- Ability to draft proposals of cost vs. use/benefit of proposed architectural changes.
- Expert level understanding and use of software and data engineering design principles and best practices
- Understanding of modern SDLC processes (Agile, CI, CD, etc.) and how architecture fits
- The ability to think strategically and align design and architecture patterns to drive current needs as well as future growth
- The ability to tailor technical communications to any level (Exec to Jr. Software Engineers)
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent.
- Applicants must be authorized to work f
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