Solutions Architect - Data

As a Solutions Architect, you will liaise with clients to:

Responsibilities

Collate technical and functional requirements through workshops with senior stakeholders in risk, actuarial, pricing and product teams

Translate business requirements to technical solutions leveraging strong business acumen

Analyse current business practice, processes, and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging Data & Analytics solutions on various platforms

Develop solution proposals that provide details of project scope, approach, deliverables and project timeline

Provide architectural expertise to sales, project and other analytics teams.

Identify risks, assumptions, and develop pricing estimates for the Data & Analytics solutions

Provide solution oversight to delivery architects and teams

Minimum Qualifications

Skills and attributes for success

Experience in Big Data, data warehouse, data analytics projects, and/or any Information Management related projects

Prior experience building large scale enterprise data architectures using commercial and/or open source Data Analytics technologies

Ability to estimate complexity, effort and cost

Ability to produce client ready solution architecture, business understandable presentations and good communication skills to lead and run workshops

Strong knowledge of data manipulation languages such as Spark, Scala, Impala, Hive SQL, Apache Nifi and Kafka necessary to build and maintain complex queries, streaming and real-time data pipelines

Data modelling and architecting skills including strong foundation in data warehousing concepts, data normalisation, and dimensional data modelling such as OLAP, or data vault

Good fundamentals around security integration including Kerberos authentication, SAML and data security and privacy such as data masking and tokenisation techniques

Good knowledge in DevOps engineering using Continuous Integration/ Delivery tools

An in depth understanding of Cloud solutions (AWS, Azure and/or GCP) and experienced in integrating into traditional hosting/delivery models

Preferred Qualifications/skills

Experience in engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Strong consulting experience and background, including engaging directly with clients

Demonstrable Cloud experience with Azure, AWS or GCP