Data Architect

Role & Responsibilities:

• Ability to architect Azure cloud-based application modernization, Azure infrastructure setup, configuration and management
• Ability to create / recreate / rewrite or refactor applications based for cloud resource optimization.
• Make use of Azure Integration Services: Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management and Event Grid.
• Assure that data is cleansed, mapped, transformed, and otherwise optimized for storage and use according to business and technical requirements.
• Solution design using Microsoft Azure services and tools including Data Factory, Data Lake, Synapse etc.
• Extracting data, troubleshooting and maintaining the data warehouse.
• Experience of SQL and Dataverse databases is mandatory.
• The ability to automate tasks and deploy production standard code (with unit testing, continuous integration, versioning etc.).
• Load transformed data into storage and reporting structures in destinations including data warehouse, high speed indexes, real-time reporting systems and analytics applications.
• Build data pipelines to collectively bring together data.
• Utilize Microsoft Azure PaaS and SaaS solution development technologies including Azure Functions, Azure Notifications Hub, Azure App Service and Key Vault
• Setup Fresh / Modify existing CI/CD pipelines development (YAML or Classic).
• Hands-on experience with automation tools, cloud computing platforms, and scripting languages
• Ability to learn and implement automation tools and technologies, such as Azure DevOps, Docker, and Terraform on the Azure platform.
• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration, such as Kubernetes
• Experience with Azure monitoring and error logging tools, debugging skills, problem solving ability.

Lead Data Engineer

Data Engineers develop modern data architecture approaches to meet key business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions. You might spend a few weeks with a new client on a deep technical review or a complete organizational review, helping them to understand the potential that data brings to solve their most pressing problems. On other projects, you might be acting as the architect, leading the design of technical solutions, or perhaps overseeing a program inception to build a new product. It could also be a software delivery project where you're equally happy coding and tech-leading the team to implement the solution.

Job responsibilities

·      You might spend a few weeks with a new client on a deep technical review or a complete organizational review, helping them to understand the potential that data brings to solve their most pressing problems

·      You will partner with teammates to create complex data processing pipelines in order to solve our clients' most ambitious challenges

·      You will collaborate with Data Scientists in order to design scalable implementations of their models

·      You will pair to write clean and iterative code based on TDD

·      Leverage various continuous delivery practices to deploy, support and operate data pipelines

·      Advise and educate clients on how to use different distributed storage and computing technologies from the plethora of options available

·      Develop and operate modern data architecture approaches to meet key business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions

·      Create data models and speak to the tradeoffs of different modeling approaches

·      On other projects, you might be acting as the architect, leading the design of technical solutions, or perhaps overseeing a program inception to build a new product

·      Seamlessly incorporate data quality into your day-to-day work as well as into the delivery process

·      Assure effective collaboration between Thoughtworks' and the client's teams, encouraging open communication and advocating for shared outcomes

Job qualifications Technical skills

·      You are equally happy coding and leading a team to implement a solution

·      You have a track record of innovation and expertise in Data Engineering

·      You're passionate about craftsmanship and have applied your expertise across a range of industries and organizations

·      You have a deep understanding of data modelling and experience with data engineering tools and platforms such as Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop

·      You have built large-scale data pipelines and data-centric applications using any of the distributed storage platforms such as HDFS, S3, NoSQL databases (Hbase, Cassandra, etc.) and any of the distributed processing platforms like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Oozie, and Airflow in a production setting

·      Hands on experience in MapR, Cloudera, Hortonworks and/or cloud (AWS EMR, Azure HDInsights, Qubole etc.) based Hadoop distributions

·      You are comfortable taking data-driven approaches and applying data security strategy to solve business problems

·      You're genuinely excited about data infrastructure and operations with a familiarity working in cloud environments

·      Working with data excites you: you have created Big data architecture, you can build and operate data pipelines, and maintain data storage, all within distributed systems

Professional skills

·      Advocate your data engineering expertise to the broader tech community outside of Thoughtworks, speaking at conferences and acting as a mentor for more junior-level data engineers

·      You're resilient and flexible in ambiguous situations and enjoy solving problems from technical and business perspectives

·      An interest in coaching others, sharing your experience and knowledge with teammates

·      You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create and manage cloud resources in AWS 
• Data ingestion from different data sources which exposes data using different technologies, such as: RDBMS, REST HTTP API, flat files, Streams, and Time series data based on various proprietary systems. Implement data ingestion and processing with the help of Big Data technologies 
• Data processing/transformation using various technologies such as Spark and Cloud Services. You will need to understand your part of business logic and implement it using the language supported by the base data platform 
• Develop automated data quality check to make sure right data enters the platform and verifying the results of the calculations 
• Develop an infrastructure to collect, transform, combine and publish/distribute customer data.
• Define process improvement opportunities to optimize data collection, insights and displays.
• Ensure data and results are accessible, scalable, efficient, accurate, complete and flexible 
• Identify and interpret trends and patterns from complex data sets 
• Construct a framework utilizing data visualization tools and techniques to present consolidated analytical and actionable results to relevant stakeholders. 
• Key participant in regular Scrum ceremonies with the agile teams  
• Proficient at developing queries, writing reports and presenting findings 
• Mentor junior members and bring best industry practices 

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-7+ years’ experience as data engineer in consumer finance or equivalent industry (consumer loans, collections, servicing, optional product, and insurance sales) 
• Strong background in math, statistics, computer science, data science or related discipline
• Advanced knowledge one of language: Java, Scala, Python, C# 
• Production experience with: HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Oozie / Airflow, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker / Kubernetes, Snowflake  
• Proficient with
• Data mining/programming tools (e.g. SAS, SQL, R, Python)
• Database technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake. and Greenplum)
• Data visualization (e.g. Tableau, Looker, MicroStrategy)
• Comfortable learning about and deploying new technologies and tools. 
• Organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects and priorities simultaneously and meet established deadlines. 
• Good written and oral communication skills and ability to present results to non-technical audiences 
• Knowledge of business intelligence and analytical tools, technologies and techniques.

Mandatory Requirements 

• Experience in AWS Glue
• Experience in Apache Parquet 
• Proficient in AWS S3 and data lake 
• Knowledge of Snowflake
• Understanding of file-based ingestion best practices.
• Scripting language - Python & pyspark

About Kloud9:

Kloud9 exists with the sole purpose of providing cloud expertise to the retail industry. Our team of cloud architects, engineers and developers help retailers launch a successful cloud initiative so you can quickly realise the benefits of cloud technology. Our standardised, proven cloud adoption methodologies reduce the cloud adoption time and effort so you can directly benefit from lower migration costs.

Kloud9 was founded with the vision of bridging the gap between E-commerce and cloud. The E-commerce of any industry is limiting and poses a huge challenge in terms of the finances spent on physical data structures.

At Kloud9, we know migrating to the cloud is the single most significant technology shift your company faces today. We are your trusted advisors in transformation and are determined to build a deep partnership along the way. Our cloud and retail experts will ease your transition to the cloud.

Our sole focus is to provide cloud expertise to retail industry giving our clients the empowerment that will take their business to the next level. Our team of proficient architects, engineers and developers have been designing, building and implementing solutions for retailers for an average of more than 20 years.

We are a cloud vendor that is both platform and technology independent. Our vendor independence not just provides us with a unique perspective into the cloud market but also ensures that we deliver the cloud solutions available that best meet our clients' requirements.

What we are looking for:

● 3+ years’ experience developing Data & Analytic solutions

● Experience building data lake solutions leveraging one or more of the following AWS, EMR, S3, Hive& Spark

● Experience with relational SQL

● Experience with scripting languages such as Shell, Python

● Experience with source control tools such as GitHub and related dev process

● Experience with workflow scheduling tools such as Airflow

● In-depth knowledge of scalable cloud

● Has a passion for data solutions

● Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms

● Strong understanding of solution and technical design

● Has a strong problem-solving and analytical mindset

● Experience working with Agile Teams.

● Able to influence and communicate effectively, both verbally and written, with team members and business stakeholders

● Able to quickly pick up new programming languages, technologies, and frameworks

● Bachelor’s Degree in computer science

Why Explore a Career at Kloud9:

With job opportunities in prime locations of US, London, Poland and Bengaluru, we help build your career paths in cutting edge technologies of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science. Be part of an inclusive and diverse workforce that's changing the face of retail technology with their creativity and innovative solutions. Our vested interest in our employees translates to deliver the best products and solutions to our customers.

Role Summary/Purpose:

We are looking for a Developer/Senior Developers to be a part of building advanced analytical platform leveraging Big Data technologies and transform the legacy systems. This role is an exciting, fast-paced, constantly changing and challenging work environment, and will play an important role in resolving and influencing high-level decisions.

Requirements:

• The candidate must be a self-starter, who can work under general guidelines in a fast-spaced environment.
• Overall minimum of 4 to 8 year of software development experience and 2 years in Data Warehousing domain knowledge
• Must have 3 years of hands-on working knowledge on Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Spark, Kafka, Spark Streaming, SCALA etc…
• Excellent knowledge in SQL & Linux Shell scripting
• Bachelors/Master’s/Engineering Degree from a well-reputed university.
• Strong communication, Interpersonal, Learning and organizing skills matched with the ability to manage stress, Time, and People effectively
• Proven experience in co-ordination of many dependencies and multiple demanding stakeholders in a complex, large-scale deployment environment
• Ability to manage a diverse and challenging stakeholder community
• Diverse knowledge and experience of working on Agile Deliveries and Scrum teams.

Responsibilities

• Should works as a senior developer/individual contributor based on situations
• Should be part of SCRUM discussions and to take requirements
• Adhere to SCRUM timeline and deliver accordingly
• Participate in a team environment for the design, development and implementation
• Should take L3 activities on need basis
• Prepare Unit/SIT/UAT testcase and log the results
• Co-ordinate SIT and UAT Testing. Take feedbacks and provide necessary remediation/recommendation in time.
• Quality delivery and automation should be a top priority
• Co-ordinate change and deployment in time
• Should create healthy harmony within the team
• Owns interaction points with members of core team (e.g.BA team, Testing and business team) and any other relevant stakeholders

Company Profile and Job Description  

About us:  

AthenasOwl (AO) is our “AI for Media” solution that helps content creators and broadcasters to create and curate smarter content. We launched the product in 2017 as an AI-powered suite meant for the media and entertainment industry. Clients use AthenaOwl's context adapted technology for redesigning content, taking better targeting decisions, automating hours of post-production work and monetizing massive content libraries.  

For more details visit: www.athenasowl.tv   

Responsibilities:   

• Develop cutting edge machine learning solutions at scale to solve computer vision problems in the domain of media, entertainment and sports
• Collaborate with media houses and broadcasters across the globe to solve niche problems in the field of post-production, archiving and viewership
• Manage a team of highly motivated engineers to deliver high-impact solutions quickly and at scale

The ideal candidate should have:   

• Strong programming skills in any one or more programming languages like Python and C/C++
• Sound fundamentals of data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming
• Hands-on experience with any one popular deep learning framework like TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.
• Experience in implementing Deep Learning Solutions (Computer Vision, NLP etc.)
• Ability to quickly learn and communicate the latest findings in AI research
• Creative thinking for leveraging machine learning to build end-to-end intelligent software systems
• A pleasantly forceful personality and charismatic communication style
• Someone who will raise the average effectiveness of the team and has demonstrated exceptional abilities in some area of their life. In short, we are looking for a “Difference Maker”