Job Description:
The Solutions Architect is a senior member of our Professional Services team. Cloudera Solutions Architects act as technical leads and work on some of the most exciting distributed data projects at private and public sector organisations. Engage from Proof of Concept (PoC) stages through to production implementation on complex distributed environments. You will inspire, lead and collaboratively work with customers to advise them on the implementation of reference enterprise data architectures, identify and drive development of use cases and optimize processing performance following root cause analysis. Form part of a team that will foster a long-standing relationship with our customers.
You will…
Motivate and enable our customers on their Enterprise Data Cloud journey
Participate in the pre and post sales process, helping both the sales and product teams to interpret customer use cases
Drive POCs with customers to successful completion
Design and implement Enterprise Data Cloud architectures and configurations for customers
Work directly with customer technical resources to devise, recommend and implement solutions based on the understood requirements
Recommend best practice design patterns for distributed data pipelines and analytical computing architectures
Plan and deliver presentations and workshops to customer/internal stakeholders
Mentor junior consultants
Assist in the technical hiring process
Write and produce technical documentation, blogs and knowledgebase articles
You have…
A passion for solving real world problems with cutting edge technology
Customer facing/consulting experience interacting with large scale distributed data/computing solutions
Appreciation of the commercial business cases that drive customer data platform initiatives
Strong experience designing, architecting and implementing software solutions in an enterprise Linux environment, including solid foundation in OS / networking fundamentals
Strong experience with Spark and the Hadoop ecosystem or related technologies including deployment & administration
Excellent communication skills, able to present to a wide range of audiences
Knowledge of big data/analytical use-cases and best practice approaches to implement solutions to them
Hands on experience with Cloud Platforms (i.e. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
Experience with open source ecosystem programming languages (i.e. Python, Java, Scala etc.)
Knowledge of the data management ecosystem including: Concepts of data warehousing, ETL, data integration, etc.
Experience implementing data transformation and processing solutions on Hadoop or related technologies (i.e. HDFS, HIVE, Impala, HBase, NiFi etc.)
Strong understanding of authentication (i.e. LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, Kerberos etc.) & authorization configuration for Hadoop based distributed systems
Deep knowledge of the Data/Big Data business domain
Knowledge of scripting tools such as bash shell scripts, Python or Perl
Familiarity of DevOps methodology & toolsets and automation experience with Chef, Puppet, Ansible or Jenkins
Ability to travel ~70%
You might also have…
Related industry experience & relevant certifications
Public speaking experience
Experience with public cloud providers and private cloud solutions
Familiarity with BI tools and Data Science notebooks such as Cloudera Data Science Workbench, Apache Zeppelin, Jupyter, IBM Watson Studio etc.
Experience implementing machine learning algorithms using R or Tensorflow and deep understanding of statistical methods
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