Big Data Solutions Architect
Mission Cloud
- Los Angeles, CA
- $121,575-158,400 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Facilitate design sessions with clients and Mission Cloud team to create the strategy, architecture, and implementation plan for data engineering projects
- Design end-to-end modern data platforms for analytics and AI use cases for multiple clients simultaneously
- Communicate the proposed solution to clients so they understand the benefits, translating the technical elements into business language
- Develop strategic roadmaps and project plans based on customer goals
- Work with Big Data Engineers and Architects to break down complex development plans into LOE estimates, design documents and project plans
- Oversee the implementation customer roadmaps in coordination with Big Data Engineers; ensure project tasks are completed on time, high quality, and progress toward the project goals
- Design data ingestion, data storage, data modeling, data virtualization, self-service data preparation and analytics pipelines
- Develop customer solutions for data privacy and security
- Create workload orchestration using common tools like Jenkins, Airflow and MLFlow
- Be the technical liaison between customers and engineering teams; communicate complex technical concepts in easy-to-understand non-technical language
- Work with Project Managers to set customer expectations, drive alignment, and coordinate timelines
- Support pre-sales engineers in proposal design and positioning, including helping define an approach to solving a prospect's technical challenges and helping the business development team estimate and plan projects
- Mentor Big Data Engineers and more junior consultants
- Support Data Science & Engineering process improvement initiatives
- Support Data Science & Engineering recruiting efforts by participating on interview panels
- Proven experience designing and implementing creative data solutions leveraging the latest in Big Data frameworks, especially from AWS
- Experience architecting solutions for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional sources such as structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data using SQL, NoSQL and data pipelines for real-time, streaming, batch and on-demand workloads
- Working knowledge of analytics/data management strategy formulation, architectural blueprinting, and business case development
- SQL, Database, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing and Development skills
- Working knowledge of AWS services like S3, Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue, and Quicksight
- Working knowledge of Dashboarding and Reporting Tools used in the Industry (Tableau, Qlik, etc.)
- Ability to lead teams, train, and mentor more junior team members
- Ability to work with implementation of data security, encryption, PII/PSI legislation, identity and access management across sources and environments
- AWS Data Analytics Specialty Certification (required within 6 months of hire)
- AWS Solution Architect - Professional Certification (required within 6 months of hire)
- Additional AWS Specialty Certification within the Data Analytics, Development or Machine learning space (required within 1 year of hire)
- Access to health, vision and dental insurance with options 100% covered by Mission Cloud for employee and their dependents
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare & Dependent Care)
- Generous Paid Time Off (FlexPTO, parental leave, volunteering time off)
- Reproductive health benefits
- Pet insurance
- 401k matching program
- Life insurance paid by Mission Cloud
- Monthly flex stipend
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Home office expense benefit
- An internal department dedicated to helping team members on their career path
- Inclusive work environment with several Employee Resource Groups