Architect - Data Engineering

As an Architect in Credera’s Data Engineering capability group, you will lead teams in implementing modern data architecture, data engineering pipelines, and advanced analytical solutions. Our projects range from designing and implementing the latest data platform approaches (i.e. Lakehouse, DataOps, Data Mesh) using best practices and cloud solutions, building scalable data and ML pipelines, democratizing data through modern governance approaches, and delivering data products using advanced machine learning, visualization, and integration approaches.

You will act as the primary architect and technical lead on projects to scope and estimate work streams, architect and model technical solutions to meet business requirements, serve as a technical expert in client communications, and mentor junior project team members. On a typical day, you might expect to participate in design sessions, build data structures for an enterprise data lake or statistical models for a machine learning algorithm, coach junior resources, and manage technical backlogs and release management tools. Additionally, you will seek out new business development opportunities at existing and new clients.

WHO YOU ARE:

• You have a minimum of 5 years of technical, hands-on experience building, optimizing, and implementing data pipelines and architecture
• Experience leading teams to wrangle, explore, and analyze data to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
• You are a highly driven professional and enjoy serving in a fast-paced, dynamic client-facing role where delivering solutions to exceed high expectations is a measure of success
• You have a passion for leading teams and providing both formal and informal mentorship
• You have strong communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to engage customers at a business level in addition to a technical level
• You have a deep understanding of data governance and data privacy best practices
• You have a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, Management Information Systems or a related field of study 
• The ideal candidate will have recent technical knowledge of the following:
  
  • SQL and relational databases (e.g. Snowflake, MySQL, SQL Server)
  • Data Lake design (Delta Lake, Lakeformation, Iceberg)
  • NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, CosmosDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.) 
  • Data pipeline and workflow management tools (Airflow, Dagster, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory, etc.)
  • Metadata management tools (Collibra, Atlas, DataHub, etc.) 
  • Stream-processing systems (e.g. Storm, Spark-Streaming, Pulsar, Flink, etc.)
  • MLOps platforms (Sagemaker, Azure ML, Vertex.ai, MLFlow) 
  • Programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.)
  • Container Orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.)
• Experience with the data platform components on one or more of the following cloud service providers:
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Azure

WHO WE ARE:

• Credera is a full-service management consulting, user experience, and technology solutions firm, with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to emerging industry leaders
• Credera has received a number of state and national awards! Please check out our employer awards at: https://www.credera.com/awards-and-recognition
• Our data capabilities help our clients gain competitive advantage by transforming raw data into insights that enable actionable decision making. Our business-driven approach to envisioning and implementing innovative solutions helps organizations tackle their market, increase customer engagement and grow revenue profitably via advanced technology. Our data capabilities serve our clients across a broad spectrum of areas, specializing in Data Strategy, Modern Data Architecture, Data Visualization, Business Insights, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. 

HOW WE WORK:

• We work in small (typically 2-8 person) project teams that collaborate closely with clients to solve their toughest challenges
• We employ principles of agile development to achieve high velocity and quality of delivery
• We offer several channels for collaboration that make it easy to reach out to leaders within the practice
• We adhere to Credera’s core values of integrity, excellence, professionalism, and humility at all times

Travel: Like what you hear but you're worried about high travel?  Know that our goal is to keep travel to a minimum and most projects do not require travel.  An average would be 0% up to 30%.

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