Big Data Solution Architect

Big Data Solution Architect Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Big Data Solution Architect to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Create and present solution architecture documents with deep technical details;
  • Design data analytics solutions by utilising the big data technology stack;
  • Lead implementation of the solutions from establishing project requirements and goals to solution “go-live”;
  • Create and follow personal education plan in the technology stack and solution architecture;
  • Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends and best practices;
  • Work closely with business in identifying solution requirements and key case-studies/scenarios for future solutions;
  • Conduct solution architecture review/audit, calculate and present ROI;
  • Get involved in engaging new clients to further drive EPAM business in the big data space.

Requirements:

  • Experience working within a consulting business and pre-sales experience would be highly attractive;
  • Knowledge of Agile development methodology, Scrum in particular;
  • NoSQL databases: Cassandra/HBase/Accumulo/Kudu;
  • Experience delivering data analytics projects and architecture guidelines;
  • Strong ‘hands-on’ experience as a Big Data Architect with a solid design/development background with Java, Scala, or Python;
  • Experience in direct customer communications and pre-selling business-consulting engagements to clients within large enterprise environments;
  • Experience in big data solutions on premises and on the cloud (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud);
  • Production project experience in at least one of the big data technologies;
  • Batch processing: Hadoop and MapReduce/Spark/Hive.