Solutions Architect

Summary

Join phData, a dynamic and innovative leader in the modern data stack. We partner with major cloud data platforms like Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, Fivetran, Pinecone, Glean and dbt to deliver cutting-edge services and solutions. We're committed to helping global enterprises overcome their toughest data challenges.

Benefits

• • Remote-First Work Environment
• • Casual, award-winning small-business work environment
• • Collaborative culture that prizes autonomy, creativity, and transparency
• • Competitive comp, excellent benefits, generous PTO plan plus 10 Holidays (and other cool perks)
• • Accelerated learning and professional development through advanced training and certifications

Responsibilities

• • Operate and manage modern data platforms - from streaming, to data lakes, to analytics, and beyond across a progressively evolving technical stack.
• • Demonstrate clear ownership of multiple simultaneous customer accounts across a variety of technical stacks and act as a technical leader.
• • Proactively identify and articulate best practices and improvements to customers on how to best leverage their Cloud Data Platform.
• • Skillfully navigate complex customer environments and build Epics, Stories, and Tasks in order to mature and improve our customer’s data platform. Delegate to and coach Engineers and ensure successful and timely delivery of these Epics.
• • Provide thought leadership by recommending the right technologies and approaches to maturing and solving problems to help ensure performance, security, scalability, and user satisfaction.
• • Continually hunt for ways to automate and optimize existing processes.

Required Skills

• Prefer any of the following:

  • • Production experience in core data platforms; Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, Hadoop, Databricks
  • • Cloud and Distributed Data Storage; S3, ADLS, HDFS, GCS, Kudu, ElasticSearch/Solr, Cassandra or other NoSQL storage systems
  • • Data integration technologies; Spark, Kafka, event/streaming, Streamsets, Matillion, Fivetran, NiFi, AWS Data Migration Services, Azure DataFactory, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), Google DataProc or other data integration technologies
  • • Multiple data sources (e.g. queues, relational databases, files, search, API)
  • • Complete software development lifecycle experience including design, documentation, implementation, testing, and deployment
  • • Automated data transformation and data curation; dbt, Spark, Spark streaming, automated pipelines
  • • Workflow Management and Orchestration; Airflow, AWS Managed Airflow, Luigi, NiFi

Qualifications

• • 8+ years as a hands-on Solutions Architect and/or Data Engineer designing and implementing data solutions
• • Team lead, and/or mentorship of other engineers
• • Ability to develop end-to-end technical solutions into production — and to help ensure performance, security, scalability, and robust data integration.
• • Programming expertise in Java, Python and/or Scala
• • Core cloud data platforms including Snowflake, AWS, Azure, Databricks and GCP
• • SQL and the ability to write, debug, and optimize SQL queries
• • Client-facing written and verbal communication skills and experience
• • Create and deliver detailed presentations
• • Detailed solution documentation (e.g. including POCS and roadmaps, sequence diagrams, class hierarchies, logical system views, etc.)
• • 4-year Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

About phData

phData is revolutionizing how our clients use data and artificial intelligence. As the premier services provider specializing in data application and data platform services, we partner with the leading technology companies across the modern data stack to deliver cutting-edge solutions. We are technology evangelists around critical ecosystem tools like Snowflake, AWS, Azure, dbt, Sigma, Tableau, and Power BI. We are passionate about helping global enterprises overcome their toughest challenges by building AI solutions and data applications and then getting these solutions into production. phData is a remote-first global company with employees based in the United States, Latin America and India. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity, ownership and trust. Even though we're growing extremely fast, we maintain a casual, exciting work environment. We hire top performers and allow you the autonomy to deliver results.

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