Role: Data Architect

Location: Newark, NJ

Duration: Contracting 

Job Description:

As a part of our CDO organization, you will develop software applications supporting data projects in a cost effective and scalable manner.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience implementing applications supporting data lakes, data warehouses and data applications on AWS for large enterprises
• Programming experience with Python, Shell scripting and SQL
• Solid experience of AWS services such as CloudFormation, S3, Athena , Glue, EMR/Spark, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM, KMS, SM etc.
• Experience in AWS data lake/data warehouse/business analytics
• Knowledge of ETL/ELT in Cloud and on-premise
• End-to-end data solutions (ingest, storage, integration, processing, access) on AWS
• Architect and implement CI/CD strategy for Data platform
• Implement high velocity streaming solutions using Amazon Kinesis, SQS, and Kafka (preferred)
• Migrate data from traditional relational database systems, file systems, NAS shares to AWS relational databases such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, and Redshift
• Migrate data from APIs to AWS data lake (S3) and relational databases such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, and Redshift
• AWS Solutions Architect or AWS Developer Certification preferred

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience as Software engineer
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience on Data lake and warehouse Architecture in Cloud
• Strong knowledge on Microservice based design patterns
• Experience developing business applications using NoSQL/SQL databases.
• Plus to have knowledge on Snowflake

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and motivate the team members.
• Design components and applications according to business requirements. 
• Work along with other Tech Leads, Product Managers, and Engineering Managers.
• Generate detailed reports with accomplished, planned, and blocked tasks.
• Identify and mitigate risks, including security risks.
• Actively promote a Code Review culture and review the team's Pull Requests.
• Designing, building and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable architecture and code.
• Ensure the best possible performance and quality of high scale web applications and services.
• Participate in the architecture and system design discussions
• Independently perform hands on development and unit testing of the applications;
• Collaborate with the development team and build individual components into complex enterprise web systems;
• Work in a team environment with product, frontend design, production operation, QE/QA and cross functional teams to deliver a project throughout the whole software development cycle;
• Responsible to identify and resolve any performance issues
• Keep up to date with new technology development and implementation
• Participate in code review to make sure standards and best practices are met