Principal Responsibilities
- Lead joint solution/offering architecture discussions with partner architects and support development
- Drive holistic solutions for data platforms, analytics, built cost summaries, value propositions as part of cloud modernization, data portfolio rationalization
- Provide leadership for the transformation of customer requirements into visions, strategies, and roadmaps to implement data platforms, multi-cloud, and cloud data warehouse
- Contribute to the cloud community by developing assets, thought leadership, etc.
Key Qualifications:
- Bachelors’ Degree and a minimum of 10+ years of professional IT experience
- Proven experience in successfully building and defending solution architecture with different levels of technical partners -Enterprise Architects, Technical Leads, etc.
Technical Qualifications:
- Required cloud competencies:
- AWS Certified Solution Architect
- Experience in architecting data warehouse solutions for 10+ years
- Strong experience (8+ years) implementing Cloud and infrastructure components for AWS (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end to end Cloud architectures and designs
- Knowledge of PaaS services relating to Data, Analytics and end-point API interfaces - EMR/Dataproc/Databricks etc
- Ability to compare and contrast between best of technologies by layer -e.g, stream processing, messaging, search, etc
- Knowledge of other partner technologies, which are alternative to native services like Snowflake, Cloudera, Talend, Informatica, Confluent, etc.
- Holistic knowledge of solution architecture, including:
- Data layers and purpose
- Serverless compute
- Processing run time -ETL vs Spark run time, etc.
- Security controls around authentication, authorizations, encryption, and certificates
- Ability to recommend the migration tools and design data migration strategy
- Metadata and data catalogs
- Ability to compare and contrast across technologies in any layer objectively with evaluation criteria and considerations
- Experience Optimizations including increasing Operational efficiencies on AWS while reducing overall DevOps costs
- Can clearly articulate Enterprise Standards & Operational Governance mechanisms that can be built-in for each layer of AWS Cloud data and analytics (Ingestion, Transformation, Consumption, Governance, Business touchpoints)
- Knowledge of DevOps, infrastructure, and security standards
- Technical knowledge on EC2, IAM, S3, VPC, Lambda, Glue
- Security architecture design
- Create Architectural standards and policy documents to socialize and align cross-functional teams
- Help delivery team to create business friendly touchpoints/UI/Experience with the new AWS platform
- Good knowledge and experience in Lifesciences (Commercial, Managed Markets domains).
- Excellent communication skills
- Expertise in preparing presentations, executive readouts