Job Title: Senior Azure Data Solution Architect
(For the Client of Avesta Computers)
Experience-10-20years
Location: Houston, TX, United States
Type: Fulltime
About Customer:
Our customer is one of the largest engineering firms globally. They employ over 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals across five continents.
Overview:
As a Client-Facing AI Solution Architect at Digital Advance Analytics Team, you'll be at the forefront of our client interactions, serving as a trusted technology leader and advisor. Your role will focus on shaping and executing large-scale digital transformation strategies that align with our clients' complex business goals. From the conceptual stage through to implementation, you will guide cross-functional project teams, ensuring successful project delivery within time and budget constraints. In addition to your technical expertise, your consultative and pre-sales support skills will be instrumental in winning new business and deepening existing client relationships. If you are passionate about leveraging technology to drive business outcomes and thrive in client-centric environments, this is the role for you.
Responsibilities:
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Actively engage with cross-functional teams, including business process owners, IT teams, and end-users, to scrutinize business processes. Gather and prioritize requirements, perform gap analysis, and formulate optimal technical solutions.
- Project Costing and Risk Analysis: Produce detailed project estimations accounting for scope, effort, and costs. Evaluate required resources, complexity levels, and inherent risks.
- Strategic Leadership in Digital Transformation: Spearhead large-scale digital transformation strategies that align closely with client business objectives.
- Data Lake Architecture: Establish the architecture for enterprise-level Data Lakes, ensuring scalability, security, and data integrity.
- Client Technical Liaison: Serve as the principal technical contact for clients, understanding and translating their business requirements into secure, scalable solutions.
- Tool Selection and Specification: Identify appropriate technologies, platforms, and frameworks for each client project.
- Solution Design and Execution: Architect and execute robust software solutions that meet client specifications from ideation to implementation.
- Team Guidance and Leadership: Oversee project teams throughout the development lifecycle, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Scope and Objective Definition: Coordinate with portfolio leaders and stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and key deliverables.
- Bridging Communication Gaps: Translate complex technical concepts for a diverse stakeholder audience, including non-technical members.
- Industry Research for Best Practices: Keep abreast of industry trends to ensure the implementation of efficient tools and methodologies.
- Performance and Resilience Optimization: Propose enhancements to improve performance, stability, and resilience of systems and processes, and provide cost and risk analysis.
What you will bring to the team:
- Advanced Education: A Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field is highly preferred.
- Cloud and Data Technologies: Strong proficiency in Azure cloud infrastructure and key Azure services like Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory, and Azure SQL Database. Microsoft Azure Data Architecture Certification is a strong plus.
- Project Leadership: Minimum of 10 years of experience in software development and implementation, with a focus on leading large-scale data warehousing and analytics projects.
- Technical Skillset: At least 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience in multiple of the following key Microsoft technologies:
- Azure Data Lake Storage
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Azure DevOps
- MS Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate)
- MS SharePoint
- MS Teams for collaboration solutions
- Web Application Development (ReactJS, .NET Core, REST APIs)
