Principal Cloud Architect - San Antonio, TX

- August 27, 2019

Position: Principal Cloud Architect

Location: San Antonio, TX

Duration: Long Term Contract

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: Long Term

Job Descriptions:

Project Scope "Role: Principal Cloud Architect working as part of Enterprise IT

Client is migrating from their existing existing Netezza/Datastage environment to Snowflake in AWS across a number of business units including Bank, P&C, etc. we has been asked to provide 2 Principal Cloud & Data Architects to help assess and define cloud architecture, choose tooling, design the workflows, and other tasks required to ensure successful delivery of various cloud migration projects. The architects should possess complementary skills to fill the broad requirements of the project.

Required Skills "The first architect will need to have the following skills

1. Significant experience with Netezza and ETL processes usign Netezza as a source and target.

2. Experience using SQL, experience with cloud data warehousing (Snowflake preferred, but Redshift ok).

3. Experience using Java, Python, Spark and Kafka

4. Some experience with with data virtualization (Denodo preferred)

5. Some experience with cloud security, data warehouse security, data governance, data lineage, metadata management.

6. Excellent communication and organizational skills.

7. Ability to lead and mentor the staff on the technologies in use.

8. Ability to accurately communicate to our and client team regarding the technical structure of the project and any challenges. "

Roles & Responsibilities "Architects will need to be skilled in comprehensive cloud and data architecture (foundational technologies are Snowflake and AWS moving from Netezza) plus ETL both on premise (DataStage) and cloud (options), BI, Orchestration, Cloud Data Governance, Security Specifics (AWS and Snowflake), Data Lineage, Data Governance, Hadoop Migrations to the Cloud (HDP), Metadata Lineage, Metadata Scanning and Cataloging, SAS Workload Migration, Data Virtualization, Data Quality, and Data Profiling.

Any experience in a highly regulated industry will be a plus."