Data Architect Fully Remote Working - München, Deutschland - Rackspace

Beschreibung

As a Data Architect for Data,you are passionate about data and technology solutions and are driven to learn about them and keep up with market evolution.

You will play an active role in delivering modern data solutions for clients including data ingestion/data pipeline design and implementation, data warehouse & data lake architectures, cognitive computing and cloud services.

You are enthusiastic about all things data, have strong problem-solving and analytical skills, are tech savvy and have a solid understanding of software development.

In this role you will be helping to grow the Rackspace data practice. You will be the expert in the region and support the delivery of our data projects on Azure.

With a large Azure data team of over 150 people in the region it is also an opportunity to mentor and shape the data practice during our growth phase.

More generally, Data Architect are the cornerstone of our delivery success, overseeing our most strategic accounts.

They are empowered to make key delivery decisions and work closely with technical resources as well as our Engagement/Project Managers to ensure our customers experience successful outcomes.

The Data Architect needs to understand client's business and technology requirements within their domain, identify gaps, areas of opportunity, and design future state improvements and lead the team of data engineers and data analysts to deliver these with high quality and customer satisfaction
5+ years' experience leading engagements from design to implementation of creative data solutions leveraging the latest in Spark based modern data platforms on public cloud
~ At least 2 full lifecycle data platform deployments on Azure using first party services for Data and Analytics.
~ Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks,
~ Strong Spark, SQL, Data Modeling, Data lakehouse concepts.
~ Programming / scripting experience using python and scala.
~5+ years' 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 using SQL, NoSQL and data pipelines for real-time, streaming, batch and on-demand workloads
~3+ years' experience with analytics/data management strategy formulation, architectural blueprinting and effort estimation of analytics
~Ability to deal with ambiguity by making the appropriate decisions considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions.
~ Experience with Agile development methods in data-oriented projects
~ Experience with Dashboarding and Reporting Tools used in the industry (Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, etc.)
~ Certifications in architecture, data engineering and development from Azure is preferred
~ Knowledge of software configuration management environments and tools such as JIRA, Git, Jenkins, TFS, Shell, PowerShell, Bitbucket.

Data Specialisation
Lead, define and implement end-to-end modern data platforms on public cloud using 1st party services in support of analytics and AI use cases
Collaborate with enterprise architects, data architects, ETL developers & engineers, data scientists, and information designers to lead identification and definition of required data structures, formats, pipelines, metadata, and workload orchestration capabilities
Address aspects such as data privacy & security, data ingestion & processing, data storage & compute, analytical & operational consumption, data modeling, data virtualization, self-service data preparation & analytics, AI enablement, and API integrations
Be the technical liaison between customers and engineering teams
Be a big data evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of cloud and data services
Develop deep relationships with clients and act as the single point of contact for client executives on data engagements
~ Directly collaborate with the sales team to formulate and execute a sales strategy to facilitate the adoption of Azure data offerings.
~ Lead the professional services elements of relevant data proposals and RFP/RFI responses, including scope, effort, pricing models and SOW development.
~ Guide customers during big data and cloud adoption by:
~ Lead discovery sessions with stakeholders, including - interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, client on-site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and data analysis for technology change
~ Identify gaps in customer maturity and capabilities in relation to their data strategy.
~ Work with Engagement / Project Managers to plan the delivery of data projects, including budget, delivery resources, partner engagement, schedules and responsibilities.
~ Accountable for the successful outcome of data and related engagements from both a delivery (schedule, deliverables etc.) and commercial (revenue realization, budget etc.) LI-Remote

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