Lead Solutions Architect

Transamerica • Cedar Rapids, IA

10h • Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Solutions Architect designs, architects, and supports the systems, services, and applications used to collect, store, process, and analyze data, enabling data-driven decisions and outcomes across the organization. The role works with architects, data scientists, analytics teams, and business product owners in an agile environment to build and support enterprise data infrastructure and tools in cloud and on-premises settings. It develops scalable data solutions and pipeline frameworks, data APIs, and delivery services, and recommends tools, frameworks, applications, and enterprise data-management practices. The position may also manage or coach staff.

The position is based in an office environment and involves occasional travel of less than 10%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering, MIS, or equivalent experience.
• Five years of collective experience applying architecture, enterprise roadmaps, analytics, cloud, IT strategies, innovation, SAFe, TOGAF, and data integration concepts and methodologies.
• Well versed in defining, recommending, promoting, and enforcing program and project solutions.
• Expertise using SQL for data profiling, analysis, and extraction.
• Familiarity with data science techniques and frameworks.
• Three years of experience in architecting, building, and administering complex architectures and technologies, including real-time streaming analytics architectures in on-premises and cloud environments.
• Three years of experience architecting, building, and administering large-scale distributed applications.
• Three years of Linux operations and development, including CLI, basic commands, and shell scripting with PowerShell or Bash.
• Three years of experience architecting scalable containerized applications with a container orchestration framework.
• Three years of experience executing DevOps methodologies and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
• Attention to detail and results orientation, with a strong customer focus.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Technical communication skills.
• Prioritization skills to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to work in a team environment.

Nice To Haves

• Leadership capability to communicate effectively with all levels of management.
• Experience with advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations.
• Experience with data analysis and data visualization tools.
• Understanding of big data and real-time streaming analytics processing architectures and ecosystems.
• Experience with data lakes and data warehousing architecture and implementation, including MPP and data streams; hands-on experience with source-to-target mappings and developing ETL code.
• Software development experience in relevant programming languages such as Spark, Java, Python, Scala, Node.js, or SQL.
• Thorough knowledge of OpenAPI Specification, REST, API design, security, and implementation.
• Technology or platform certifications, such as AWS or Microsoft.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects, data scientists, analytics teams, and business product owners in an agile environment.
• Architect, build, and support cloud and on-premises enterprise data infrastructure and tools.
• Design robust, reusable, scalable data solutions and pipeline frameworks that automate ingestion, processing, and delivery of structured and unstructured batch and real-time streaming data.
• Lead development of data APIs and data delivery services for operational processes, analytical models, and machine learning applications.
• Recommend selection and integration of data-related tools, frameworks, and applications to expand platform capabilities.
• Recommend and implement enterprise data-management best practices, including for master data, reference data, metadata, data quality, and lineage.
• Keep current with advances in the field and learn new technologies to support the environment and project deliverables.
• May manage or coach staff.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• Bonus for eligible employees.
• Pension plan.
• 401(k) match.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Disability insurance.
• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Employee discounts.
• Career training and development opportunities.
• Paid time off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
• Ten paid holidays per year.
• Be Well Company holistic wellness program, including wellness coaching and reward dollars.
• Fifteen days of paid parental leave per calendar year for eligible employees with at least one year of service at the time of a birth, adoption placement, or foster care placement.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Back-up care program.
• PTO for volunteer hours.
• Employee matching gifts program.
• Employee Resource Groups.
• Inclusion and diversity programs.
• Employee recognition program.
• Referral bonus programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior