Data & Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Title: Data & Cloud Solutions Architect

Location: San Jose CA

Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite - 5 days/week

Job Summary

We are seeking a hands-on Data & Cloud Solutions Architect to design and implement enterprise-scale cloud data architectures supporting data integration analytics AI reporting data lakes and data warehouses.

The ideal candidate must have strong experience with Azure data architecture Databricks Spark data modeling data integration metadata data governance and enterprise solution architecture. This role also requires customer-facing consulting architecture roadmap development solution design technical estimation and support for RFPs and sales engagements.

Required Skills

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science - Strict Requirement
• 7 years of experience in Data Engineering Data Architecture or Enterprise Analytics
• 3 years of Cloud Data Architecture experience
• Strong Azure Data Architecture experience
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Azure Data Lake / ADLS
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Synapse
  • Azure Databricks
  • Apache Spark
• Strong experience in data integration ETL/ELT data lakes data warehouses and high-volume data pipelines
• Strong data modeling schema design metadata management data governance data quality and data lineage experience
• Strong SQL and programming experience with Python and/or Java
• Experience with cloud architecture and Big Data platforms; AWS/GCP/Hadoop experience is a plus
• Experience with Power BI Tableau or similar data visualization tools
• Experience with data security compliance backup recovery and disaster recovery
• Strong architecture documentation and diagramming skills using Visio Lucidchart or similar
• Experience with technical consulting customer engagement solution roadmaps RFPs technical proposals estimates and presentations
• Ability to conduct architecture reviews POCs technical audits and design evaluations
• Strong communication analytical problem-solving and stakeholder management skills

Preferred

• AWS Azure or GCP Architect / Big Data Certification
• Experience with Unity Catalog Microsoft Purview Collibra or similar governance/catalog tools
• Experience with Hadoop Hive MapReduce Pig streaming data migration graph databases or vector data
• Experience developing reusable architecture frameworks accelerators and technical solutions

What to Look For

Look for candidates who are true hands-on Data/Cloud Architects not purely Infrastructure Architects or Application Architects.

The resume should clearly show:

1. Azure data architecture involving ADLS Data Factory Synapse and Databricks.
2. Databricks Apache Spark hands-on experience designing large-scale data pipelines.
3. Experience with data lakes data warehouses ETL/ELT and enterprise data integration.
4. Strong data modeling metadata governance lineage and data quality experience.
5. Python/Java and SQL hands-on development experience.
6. Experience designing solutions across at least two data architecture areas: ingestion data management data delivery or data consumption.
7. Ability to work with customers and business stakeholders and provide architecture roadmaps and solution recommendations.
8. Experience supporting RFPs estimates technical proposals presentations and solutioning.
9. Strong architecture documentation and diagramming experience.
10. Candidate must be comfortable working onsite in San Jose CA 5 days per week.

Avoid: Candidates who are only Azure Infrastructure Architects only Application/Solution Architects only Data Engineers without architecture ownership or candidates whose resumes list Azure tools without showing real architecture and implementation experience.

Required Skills:

Data IntegrationAzureAWSApache SparkHadoopHiveData