Sr Flink Solution Architect

cloud platforms problem - solving and communication skills stakeholder communication data engineering DevOps & CI/CD java Python big data technologies flink

Responsibilities:

• Solution Design: Design and architect end-to-end big data solutions, including data ingestion, storage, processing, and analytics components, to meet business requirements and performance objectives.
• Technology Evaluation: Evaluate and recommend appropriate big data technologies, platforms, and frameworks based on business needs, technical requirements, and industry best practices.
• Data Integration: Design data integration pipelines and workflows to ingest data from multiple sources, including databases, data warehouses, streaming platforms, and external APIs.
• Scalability and Reliability: Architect highly scalable and fault-tolerant big data architectures that can handle large volumes of data, support concurrent user access, and maintain high availability.
• Documentation and Communication: Create technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and solution blueprints to communicate design decisions, best practices, and implementation guidelines to stakeholders and project teams.
• Conceptualize, architect, and communicate the Solution architecture and roadmap.
• Act as a bridge between various technology groups: Data Architecture, Platform Architecture, Information Security, and Data Architecture.
• Guide software development and infrastructure engineering teams to adopt Cloud, hybrid, and on-premises cloud-native architecture.
• Conduct evaluations of competing technologies and provide well-informed recommendations.
• Identify areas for improvement and recommend adaptation roadmaps.
• Architect, construct, and oversee an efficient data platform utilizing modern, low/no code cloud technologies (AWS), interfacing with existing data services and storages.
• Mentor junior platform engineers, data engineers, developers, and operators, championing best practices and well-architected infrastructure.
• Define productivity strategies on Kubernetes for container orchestration in a cloud environment.
• Develop strategies for legacy modernization and cloud adoption for existing solutions.
• Establish operationalization standards for supporting Cloud-based architecture.
• Collaborate to evolve a sophisticated data model, collaborating with executives, engineers, product managers, scientists, and partners to harness structured data from diverse source systems.
• Advocate and educate engineering team members on software design principles, standards, and best practices.
• Leverage external engagements as needed to expedite projects.

Do you have experience in Solution architecture design?, * Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field or 10+ years of experience in IT. Candidates with lesser experience will be considered if they have exemplary proven accomplishments.

• Deep understanding of Kafka Streams, Flink is a MUST
• Hands on expertise with recent versions of Java is a MUST
• Experience with Python ecosystem is preferred.
• Experience with server-side programming languages is REQUIRED
• Good understanding and application of EAI patterns
• MUST have 5+ years hands-on experience in designing and architecting highly available, resilient and performant systems.
• MUST be able to articulate design tradeoffs, technology choices to executive leadership
• A strong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and associated technologies is preferred.
• Strong familiarity with Cloud native development patterns, and hands-on software development experience in Java, Spring stacks.
• Substantial in-depth (10+ years) experience in data storage technologies (RDBMS, MYSQL, Postgres, S3), including robust expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines is preferred but not required
• Experience ining data authorization standards.
• Experience with CI/CD practices.
• Experience in the full Software Development Lifecycle and Agile methodology
• Excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skill.

Must required skills:

• Flink 10+ years
• Java

Preferred:

• Python
• Kubernetes

3.73.7 out of 5 stars Remote $74.89 - $117.02 an hour - Contract, Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance, The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $74.89/hour - $117.02/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.