Solutions Architect (Managed Services)

Join phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy company, as a Solutions Architect on their Managed Services team in Bangalore, India.

As a senior-level hands-on technical subject matter expert, you will be responsible for delivering large-scale, complex data platform and infrastructure projects running on Snowflake and other native cloud platform services in AWS and Azure.

Responsibilities:

• Propose, design, and provision cloud-native data solutions on AWS/Azure.
• Leverage a deep understanding of Snowflake, IAM, S3, EC2, Kinesis, Sagemaker, Airflow, Kafka, Azure Data Factory, ADLS, Fivetran, DBT, and/or other services and tools in designing and enhancing these solutions.
• Lead a technical team operating and managing modern data platforms.
• Provide clear ownership of multiple simultaneous customer accounts across a variety of technical stacks as the technical leader.
• Skillfully navigate complex customer environments and build Epics, Stories, and Tasks to mature and improve our customer’s data platform.
• Delegate to and coach Engineers and ensure the 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.
• Lead discussions and contribute to design recommendations for data model design for Data Warehouses and Data Lakes.
• Continually hunt for ways to automate, optimize, and expand our customer’s data platform and service offering.

Required Experience:

• Production support of enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or Databricks.
• Extensive experience in providing architectural guidance and operational support across a large user base for a cloud-native data warehouse (Snowflake and/or Redshift) with a background in Systems Engineering, DevOps, DBA or Data Architect.
• Production experience working with Cloud and Distributed Data Storage technologies such as S3, ADLS, HDFS, ElasticSearch/Solr, Cassandra or other NoSQL storage systems.
• Production experience working with Data integration technologies such as Spark, Kafka, event/streaming, Fivetran, HVR, NiFi, AWS Data Migration Services, Azure DataFactory or others.
• Production experience working with Workflow Management and Orchestration such as Airflow, AWS Managed Airflow, Luigi, NiFi.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and the ability to write, debug, and optimize SQL queries.
• Deep expertise with cloud-native data technologies in AWS or Azure.
• Professional track record of creating, challenging, and improving processes and procedures.
• Unmatched troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Provide team lead and mentorship of engineers.
• Passion for learning new technology stacks and experience as a technical and up-skill/training team member.
• Create and deliver detailed technical presentations for an executive audience.
• Excellent client-facing written and verbal communication skills and experience.

Perks and Benefits:

• Medical Insurance for Self & Family
• Medical Insurance for Parents
• Term Life & Personal Accident
• Wellness Allowance
• Broadband Reimbursement
• Professional Development Allowance
• Reimbursement of Skill Upgrade Certifications
• Certification Reimbursement