Location
Dallas, TX | United States
Job description
Job title: Azure Solutions Architect
Duration: Long-term
Location: Irving, TX
Responsibilities:
- Lead the engagement to formulate the Data Strategy & Architecture for client
- Engage with client CXOs and VP+ to understand the business priorities and goals required to finalize the data strategy & architecture
- Understand business & technology goals from client and create roadmap with different features and capabilities to achieve these goals
- Understand data platform/application objectives, arch, key business process, data domains, tech stack, data pipelines, dashboards & KPIs, upstream and downstream dependencies, challenges, pain points, security and future aspirations
- Work with stakeholders to collect inventory of applications and perform application discovery working alongside program and client team members
- Setup governance for this program and engage with client leadership to tie stakeholder feedback into the workshops
- Perform discovery with tech and business stakeholders to understand and align on application complexity, criticality, prioritization, risks, dependencies, integration points and consumption patterns
- Conduct discovery sessions and workshops to understand current landscape, evaluate alternate data architectures and recommend/finalize Data Strategy (including MDM and Data Governance)
- Formulate a future state architecture along with tech stack across each layer
- Define roadmap with phase wise timeline and estimate the scope
- Define, design and implement solution architecture for this program
- Review technical deliverables for team and ensure it is aligned with designed architecture
- Define, design and implement the CI/CD process for the program
- Ensure cloud and data security considerations are handled for this architecture
Qualifications:
- Over 20+ years of experience in Data & BI technologies and program with excellent leadership and communication skills
- Should have led and executed complex programs on Data in both on-prem and cloud environments (Azure cloud is mandatory)
- Should have led at least 3 consulting engagements for different Fortune 100 clients
- Should have strong working experience on Data Lakehouse architecture
- Should have in depth knowledge on different ETL & BI tools like Snowflake, Databricks, PySpark, Azure Cloud, ADF, Azure Synapse Analytics & Azure Hub Events
- Should have handled governance at CXO level and engaged with multiple stakeholders at VP+ level
- Should have in depth understanding on Data Warehousing, Master Data Management (MDM), Data Quality, Data Lineage, Data Modeling, Data Profiling and Data Policy and handled Data Governance programs
- Should have executed at least 2 Cloud based programs including Cloud Data Warehouses like Snowflake and Databricks on Azure
- Should have cross global location experience and led teams of 20+ members in a global delivery mode
- Should have led client workshops for Data programs
- Should have led opportunity discussions, estimated and submitted proposals to client
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