Full Time: Azure Data Solution Architect

Position: Azure Data Solution Architect

Location: Chicago, IL - Onsite

Duration: Full Time

Job Description:

Data Technology leader and subject matter expert with deep knowledge for a given set of Data technologies and applications as well as related processes.

Demonstrate thought leadership by holistically stitching the right Data and AI solutions for enterprise clients

Perform product or platform-based data landscape assessment, portfolio rationalization and provide solution to modernize, migrate and integrate applications on Hyperscaler using best practices and approaches

Engage with business and technology stakeholders to gather the required information, understand the client expectations, get clarity through workshops, suggest/deliberate on the right solution

Provide subject matter expertise and / or technical vision to resolve and address business issues and priorities

Designing enterprise data platforms on cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP) including services like ETL pipelines, Data Modeling, Visualization, Data Governance, RDM/MDM, etc.

Expert Troubleshooter and swift in managing any escalations or SOS situations in delivery or data related proposals.

Contribute to building offerings / solutions / automation accelerators and nurturing NexGen data talent.

Liaise with vertical / account teams to go after new data related opportunities as well as grow in existing engagements.

Essential Skills

Someone with a balanced mix of technical and business skills and working with an enterprise architecture team for strategic direction.

Develop and drive domain/application standards and best practices that align with enterprise direction.

Proven work experience as a Data Solution Architect or similar role in building data architecture, Data models, Pipeline using AWS services (S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, QuickSight, etc.) or similar native Azure or GCP services.

Strong experience on Snowflake or DataBricks (including PySpark) along with tools like DBT or Snaplogic or Informatica Stack

Proactively seek to understand major industry trends and apply them to solutions, new initiatives, and capability roadmaps

Provide technical guidance to the project teams and work closely with other Architects to ensure that project architectures follow established architecture standards and guidelines.

Good communication and presentation skills and ability to understand the business priorities and how Technology can support these initiatives.

Understanding of the Agile based development and execution approach

Well versed with data consumption design patterns like semantic layers, visualizations, ML models, etc.