Lead Data Architect - Remote

Overview

Lead data architects at Thoughtworks play a key part in developing modern data architecture approaches to meet business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions.

In Short

• You will navigate, with support, a data project's architectural concerns, enabling delivery teams to deliver on accepted standards within time and budget.
• You will provide client-facing technical leadership and guidance on topics related to data architecture, engineering, and analytics to advise clients on bringing their data strategy to life.
• You will interact with client counterparts from the enterprise architecture group to deliver, share, align and sign-off on key architectural decisions, trade-offs and ways of working.
• You will communicate both high-level and low-level technical details of data architecture to engineers and business stakeholders.
• You understand and can collaborate at the intersection of analytical and operational architectures.
• You will lead with support the technical design of data governance, data security and data privacy to fulfill compliance requirements.
• You will lead, with support, the incorporating of data quality frameworks and processes to address and fulfill requirements as set out in strategy and acceptance criteria.
• You will collaborate with sales and pre-sales to clarify requirements and design viable solutions.

Requirements

• You must have experience designing and implementing solutions on the Databricks, Snowflake, Spark or EMR platforms.
• You have experience in defining and implementing different types of data architecture, analyzing trade-offs and can define technology stacks for different types of data architecture.
• You have exposure to designing application system architecture based on big data, artificial intelligence and related technologies.
• You have experience in building, maintaining and tuning data platforms, as well as experience in data warehouse design, data modeling, data monitoring and maintenance.
• You have experience with common design patterns, application frameworks and foundational/theoretical knowledge (i.e.: distributed systems, data intensive applications, etc.).
• You are proficient in common open-source distributed computing/storage technologies, including but not limited to YARN, Impala, Spark, MapReduce, Kafka and Flink, with practical project architecture experience.
• You have a good understanding of business and communication, collaboration skills, strong learning and summarizing abilities.
• You have exposure to defining, developing and enabling data-driven techniques, advanced analytics, ML/AI and data mining applications in enterprise.
• You have exposure to developing real-time and low-latency data streaming solutions.
• You have exposure to productionizing machine learning models and applying techniques, tools and processes.
• You are passionate about data infrastructure and operations, with expertise working in cloud environments.

Benefits

• There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you.
• Your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow.
• We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.