Cloud Data Architect

Do you want the opportunity to leverage your skills to make a direct impact on the world’s leading life sciences, consumer products, and retail companies? Join Clarkston Consulting as a Cloud Data Architect to help deliver creative business solutions to our market-leading clients as a part of our team of experienced professionals.

We are looking for motivated, self-driven leaders who are energized by team results and interested in joining a firm that values its culture and people as its biggest strengths. Together, we can help find the answers to our clients most challenging business problems.

What You’ll Do

Clarkston gives you the opportunity to deliver great solutions, become recognized as an industry expert, and help build a great practice.

As a Cloud Data Architect at Clarkston, you will:

• Design and develop platforms for scalable solutions
• Design, prototype, and develop Big Data Platforms utilizing Azure or AWS
• Work with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, and vendors
• Showcase advanced analytical and conceptual skills to create original concepts/theories for various projects
• Provide forward thinking technical expertise in current and emerging technologies, trends, and practices
• Anticipate internal and/or external business challenges including regulatory; recommend process, product or service enhancements
• Design/drive architectural strategies with business and strategic goals
• Translate business goals and objectives into IT capabilities and develop technical solutions

How You’ll Grow

At Clarkston, we feel that we provide the greatest value to our clients through a combination of our industry expertise, business process knowledge, and consulting excellence.

Beyond your day-to-day responsibilities, throughout your career at Clarkston you will:

• Have the support and mentorship of your Clarkston colleagues and leaders
• Own your career – you'll be able to take charge of your career journey with diverse opportunities to lead and expand your skillset both at the client site and within the firm
• Have the opportunity to make a real and positive impact not only the clients you work with, but on the firm as well

Requirements

What We’re Looking For:

The Cloud Data Architect will help support our client(s) by serving in a lead capacity on client initiatives, mentoring more junior data architects and data engineers in Clarkston’s analytics team, assisting in defining client solutions, and support managing the delivery of those solutions.

An ideal candidate as a Cloud Data Architect would have the following qualifications and experience:

• Experience with data management solutions using data lake platform tools and technologies
• Experience with data architecture, specifically in support of data warehousing, business intelligence, master data management, and reference data management
• Familiarity with delivering Data as a Service (DaaS) concepts from enterprise repositories using REST APIs
• Familiarity with Azure or AWS-based data and data management tools, such as Azure SQL Azure Data Catalog, Azure Service Fabric, and microservices
• Familiarity with data integration points for TOGAF (or other recognized architecture framework)
• Working knowledge of development or operations framework methodologies, including Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), etc.
• Familiarity with developing data catalogues, and integrating with existing enterprise architecture
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and process automation
• Experience in using various data modeling techniques and their appropriate usage in data integration
• Experience in working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, and vendors
• Significant experience in performing analysis of business processes and functions
• Significant experience in work as an engineer or technical subject matter expert in two or more of the following areas: infrastructure; data; application; and/or security related technology
• Effective skill creating system diagrams for review by both technical and non-technical audiences
• Advanced analytical and conceptual skills to create original concepts/theories for various projects
• Develop and apply architectural governance based on business and information technology strategies
• Effective skill applying innovative approaches to solve technical design issue
• Anticipate internal and/or external business challenges including regulatory; recommend process, product or service enhancements
• Provide forward thinking technical expertise i