Position: Data Architect
Company: Ciklum International
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Project description**: 

Our client wishes to develop an architecture suitable for their growth plans, including greater interaction and propositions for their customers.  As part of the journey, Ciklum will perform an architecture review to support defining a single, unified data architecture that delivers consistent data flow for analytics.  The review includes:

- assessing existing architecture and developing recommendations for 
   tactical improvements
- design capability for event driven orchestration
- design an unified data architecture, backlog and roadmap

The project will involve working with client data engineers, and you will be considered ‘as part of the team’. Following the review, work will commence on delivering POCs related to specific architectural options/designs, prior to a scale roll-out.

Technology Stack: AWS Data Platform

**Responsibilities**

Develop database solutions to store and retrieve company information
Identify, define, direct, and perform project issue analysis to resolve issues, analysis of the technical feasibility of proposed data solutions
Design projects with broad implication for the business/stakeholders and/or the future architecture, successfully addressing cross-technology and cross-platform issues. Selects tools and methodologies for projects
Work with business and technical stakeholders to understand their business needs and design data and analytics solutions that will address the need
Translate business requirements documentation into data requirements and source-to-target data mappings
Actively participate in design and data model reviews providing constructive feedback
Provide guidance to product and development teams directed towards technical data-related issues
Ensure changes to the data environment are compliant to the architectural standards

**Requirements**

7+ years in Engineering or Technology roles
5+ years in enterprise, application and information data architecture design
Ability to clearly present to senior management with confidence
Database and application development experience in relational databases and cloud technologies
Understanding of big data technologies; Data Lake and Big Data modeling experience
Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Dimensional Modeling, Data Modeling for Big data and Metadata Management
Background in ETL and data processing, know how to transform data to meet business goals
Deep understanding of SQL and working knowledge of using SQL for various reporting and transformation needs
Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure disciplines
Excellent interpersonal and communication including superior presentation skills

**What's in it for you**

Working in a creative and dynamic team environment
Great opportunities for career and professional growth (attending events, HR networking, workshops etc)
Possibilities to work in a big and successful company
Long-term full-time employment