Senior Architect, Data
About The Position
Credera is a global consulting firm that combines transformational consulting capabilities, deep industry knowledge, AI and technology expertise to deliver valuable customer experiences and accelerated growth across various industries. We continuously evolve our services to meet the needs of future organizations and reflect modern best practices. Our unique global approach provides tailored solutions, transforming the most influential brands and organizations worldwide. Our employees, the lifeblood of our company, are passionate about making an extraordinary impact on our clients, colleagues, and communities. This passion drives how we spend our time, resources, and talents. Our commitment to our people and work has been recognized globally. Please visit our employer awards page: https://www.credera.com/awards-and-recognition. As a Senior Architect in Credera’s Data 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.
Requirements
- You have a minimum of 8+ 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 incorporate the usage of AI tooling, efficiencies, and code assistance tooling in your everyday workflows
- You have a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, Management Information Systems or a related field of study
- Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, client-facing role where delivering solid work products to exceed high expectations is a measure of success
- Contribute in a team-oriented environment
- Prioritize multiple tasks in order to consistently meet deadlines
- Creatively solve problems in an analytical environment
- Adapt to new environments, people, technologies and processes
- Excel in leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Establish strong work relationships with clients and team members
- Generate ideas and understand different points of view
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; Credera will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT, or any other employment-based visa).
Nice To Haves
- Programming languages (e.g. Python, Spark, Java, C++, Scala, etc.)
- SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, DynamoDB, CosmosDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
- Data pipeline and workflow management tools (Airflow, Dagster, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory, etc.)
- Stream-processing systems (e.g. Storm, Spark-Streaming, Pulsar, Flink, etc.)
- Data Warehouse design (Databricks, Snowflake, Delta Lake, Lake formation, Iceberg)
- MLOps platforms (Sagemaker, Azure ML, Vertex.ai, MLFlow)
- Container Orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.)
- Metadata management tools (Collibra, Atlas, DataHub, etc.)
- Experience with the data platform components on one or more of the following cloud service providers: AWS Google Cloud Platform Azure
Responsibilities
- Lead teams in implementing modern data architecture, data engineering pipelines, and advanced analytical solutions
- 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
- Mentor junior project team members
- Participate in design sessions
- Build data structures for an enterprise data lake or statistical models for a machine learning algorithm
- Coach junior resources
- Manage technical backlogs and release management tools
- Seek out new business development opportunities at existing and new clients.
Benefits
- health, mental health, vision, dental, and life insurance, prescriptions, fertility and adoption benefits, community service days, paid parental leave, PTO, 14 paid holidays, matching 401(k), Healthcare & Dependent Flexible Spending Accounts, and disability benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
