# Consultant Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Xi'an, Shaanxi
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

Principal responsibilities:

- Engage with the CIB Chief Data Office (CDO), business users, and relevant subject matter experts to understand, clarify, and prioritise business requirements.

- Translate business requirements into deliverable solution approaches, functional requirements, and high-level design documentation.

- Contribute to the technical and logical design of key components, producing required design artefacts and interface specifications.

- Communicate functional solutions to the development team and provide ongoing support as needed.

- Work closely with the production support team to ensure requirements and delivered solutions are well understood and readily supportable.

- Promote solution architecture principles, best-practice techniques, standards, and tools.

- Provide recommendations and roadmaps for proposed solutions.

- Document and share best-practice knowledge for new solutions.

- Advocate for process improvements and support the development of solutions.

- Provide technical leadership to the team throughout the project lifecycle.

- Participate in proof-of-concept (PoC) and technical validation activities to assess feasibility and risks, and recommend suitable approaches.

- Participate in design reviews and solution/code walkthroughs, providing constructive feedback and driving issues to closure.

- Manage design activities within own scope during agile iterations, delivering in line with product and delivery timelines.

- Identify and document key technical risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and drive alignment with stakeholders on remediation plans.

- Collaborate with Enterprise, Platform, and other architecture roles to align direction and continuously improve existing solutions within agreed frameworks.

- Support delivery coordination activities as required (e.g., requirements clarification, plan alignment, and cross-team communication).

Requirements:

- Minimum 5 years’ experience working as a Solution Architect within a large organisation.

- Strong logical thinking with the ability to abstract architectural patterns from technical solutions.

- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to articulate, present, and drive approval of solutions at the appropriate level for both IT and business audiences.

- Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub).

- Knowledge of database technologies (SQL/NoSQL).

- Knowledge of data warehousing and ETL/data integration.

- Operating systems and scripting: Linux, shell scripting, PowerShell.

- Experience with at least one cloud platform (GCP, Azure, AWS).

- Experience with big data platforms (BigQuery, Hadoop, Spark, Databricks).

- Experience in data modelling, with a solid understanding of data model design.

- Proven analytical skills with the ability to challenge designs and decisions.

- Experience managing and resolving complex issues using strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to quickly get up to speed with the current data landscape and apply analysis and data skills to new contexts and approaches.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including strong virtual communication (conference calls, video conferencing).

- Strong planning, organisation, and time management skills, with a demonstrated ability to meet deadlines.

- Self-aware, with the confidence to work independently.

## Skills

### Required
- Solution Architecture
- Streaming Technologies
- Database Technologies
- Data Warehousing
- ETL/Data Integration
- Cloud Platforms
- Big Data Platforms
- Data Modelling
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Communication Skills
- Leadership Skills

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