Lead Architect, Cloud based Big Data platforms
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Job Description:
The Advanced Analytics Platforms (AAP) team at Discover is looking for a Senior Architect to lead the Value Stream comprising of Cloud engineering, Platform engineering and Data engineering teams. In this role, you will establish the architecture roadmap and capabilities across multiple agile teams. You will be responsible for presenting a cohesive view of the architecture across multiple disciplines. If you are passionate about being part of a journey, that re-invents and re-architects the way we do Data-analytics from a legacy Batch to a Cloud-based Agile/ Real-time paradigm, this role is for you.
Responsibilities:
- Lead architect for the Cloud Data platform & capability Value stream
- Collaborate with other architects to set an architecture vision for the next 3 years and create an architecture roadmap, for the engineering teams to execute
- Ability to present high level views to Executives and also go down to the detail level for individual engineering teams
- Expert in Cloud-based Data analytic capabilities and services
- Architect secure, enterprise-scale patterns to support ‘Data as service patterns’, Container based processing, Real-time Data & Analytics, Cloud-native MPP
- Knowledgeable with emerging technology trends , drive a ‘Prototype driven’ culture
- Understand Business use cases and design Cloud-based solutions/ applications by integrating Cloud-based building blocks
- Architect secure Cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code for automation, Cloud-based security to run enterprise scale data-analytic platforms
- Leverage DevOps techniques and practices like CI/CD, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test Driven Development to enable the rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools like Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Chef, Ansible, Git, and Docker
- Set high standards and build architecture that blends in Agile, Scale, Security and Reliability
- Attract, recruit and lead the industry’s best talent and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure we are developing the appropriate data assets based on the highest value business use cases
- Represent Discover as a presenter at local meetups and conferences
Skills:
Skills Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
- Proven ability to set technical strategy, applying an in-depth understanding of the business strategy governing that area
- Excellent problem-solving skills involving complex and ambiguous issues
- AWS Solution Architect experience
- At least 3 years of experience in a Technology Leadership position
- At least 3 years of experience leading cloud engineering/ architecture teams
- At least 3 years of professional work experience in data warehousing / analytics
- At least 3 years of experience in open source programming languages for data analysis
Skills Desired:
- Master’s Degree or PhD
- 5+ years Java development experience
- 3+ years of experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis
- 5+ years’ experience with Relational Database Systems and SQL
- 5+ years of UNIX/Linux experience
- 2+ years of Agile engineering experience
- 2+ years of experience with Cloud computing
- 1+ years of experience with supervised machine learning
- 1+ years of experience in developing large and complex event processing platforms
- 1+ years of experience in developing high volume transaction processing solutions that can be scaled for millions of daily transactions
- Experience with major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP
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