Job Title: Solutions/Cloud Architect - Data Space
Location: Washington, DC or New York City, NY
Type: Full-Time (Contract to Hire in 6 months)
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens and Green Card Holders only
Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly experienced Solutions/Cloud Architect specializing in data to join our team. This role will involve partnering with CDOs/CDAOs to shape data strategy and build business cases for cloud migration and modernization. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of data and analytics solutions across AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, or Databricks, with a proven track record in Financial Services.\
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and shape comprehensive data and analytics solutions for complex systems and infrastructure.
- Partner with business stakeholders to define and translate business objectives into actionable data strategies.
- Develop and implement Data Lake and Lakehouse architectures, leveraging hybrid cloud systems.
- Maintain and enhance vendor relationships with leading cloud and data platform providers.
- Recruit, mentor, and manage a high-performing data architecture team.
- Communicate architecture and design decisions effectively to diverse audiences, securing buy-in from clients and partners.
- Drive technical leadership on the Data and Analytics team, including developing solutions with infrastructure as code and integrating with CI/CD pipelines.
Qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience as a Solution Architect in the data domain.
- 10+ years of experience in Financial Services.
- Proven expertise in partnering with CDO/CDAOs for data strategy development.
- Strong experience in building business cases for cloud migration/modernization.
- Proficient in architecting and delivering data solutions on AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, or Databricks.
- Extensive experience in Data Lake and Lakehouse implementations.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and integrating on-premises resources with cloud platforms.
- Prior experience presenting at industry conferences or publishing whitepapers.
- Management consulting experience is a plus.