BigData Architect

N-iX is looking for a talented BigData Architect to join our Technology Office team! Our client is one of Europe's fastest-growing mobile companies with almost 5  million active customers, 1,000 employees worldwide, and operations in five countries. The client is using the mobile virtual network operator business model.

Responsibilities:

• Acting as a technical thought leader and as an architect for the Data Lake platform.
• Building and extending the architecture Data platform as per the laid out guiding principles.
• Transforming High level architecture into Technical Designs.
• Transforming Functional & Non-functional requirements into designs.
• Co-ordinating with product & business teams to close the loop for requirements & include into final solution proposal.
• Assessing various available options, weighing their pros and cons, and documenting the results as an Architectural Decision Record (ADR).
• Assisting and advising the engineering teams in selecting tools and evaluating multiple providers.
• Outlining the Technical Architecture for each individual component in the system.
• Facilitating and participating in design review sessions to ensure alignment with architectural standards and best practices.
• Conducting risk assessments of new & existing technologies and implementations, ensuring compliance with security, data protection and regulatory requirements.

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of experience in a similar Data Architect role with minimum 10+yrs of total experience.
• Proven experience in SQL, PySpark and Python.
• Experience in architecting, designing and developing Big Data platforms.
• Proven experience in working in complex enterprise solution with terabytes of data processed daily.
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns in Big Data like data mesh, data vault, medallion.
• Experience with real-time stream processing.
• Solid experience with Architectural patterns, design reviews and usage of best practices in arriving at the right solution.
• Proven experience with technical impact assessment, assessing various options thoroughly and documenting as an Architectural Decision Record (ADR).
• Working experience of building solutions in any big data cloud technology (AWS, GCP, Azure) and platforms (Databricks, Snowflake).
• Experience in working with real-time and batch-processing architecture.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Delta Lake formatting.
• Experience to articulate the design preferences & choices to senior stakeholders using documented analytical approach.
• Familiarity with Agile working principles.
• Experience of working with tools like Lucid, JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong commitment to quality, documentation, and teamwork.
• Upper intermediate level of English.
• Ukrainian language Advanced or higher level.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Certification in architecture from Azure or AWS.
• Experience of migration from cloud to hosted Spark platform.
• Working experience with SAFE framework.