Position: Big Data Competence Manager
Company: SoftServe
Category: Data Science
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

**WE ARE**
The largest Big Data & AI Center of Excellence in Eastern Europe. Our expertise in Machine Learning, AI, Big Data, IoT, Cloud technologies is recognized by Google and Amazon.
We are transforming the way thousands of global organizations do business by creating the most innovative solutions using proven architecture design methodologies, innovation frameworks and experience design approaches. Our group successfully delivered 50+ discovery & consulting projects and 75+ implementation projects in 2019.
Together with the SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, we invented Smart Decisions game, in order to promote architecture design methodologies, intended to facilitate the design of complex architectures.
Please read more at http://smartdecisionsgame.com/

**YOU ARE**
A person with
Strong interpersonal, presentation and negotiation skills
Excellent coaching and supervisory skills, people motivation skills, human resources management
Excellent organizational and time-management skills
Proven record of success in delivering solutions for different businesses
Industry certificates 
Demonstrating experience with
Driving enterprise-level strategic initiatives and partnership programs
Leading dev teams, defining career development plan for your team members
Proven record of experience building large-scale Data Platforms and decision-support systems
Implementing data processing pipelines and distributed computing systems, data streaming, Data Warehousing, reporting or analytics solutions
Clouds: AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
Applying architectural tactics and patterns on different projects
Hadoop stack, NoSQL, MPP technologies, processing frameworks
Driving communities or speaking at events

**YOU WANT TO**
Lead Big Data & Analytics practice, define targets and execution plan company-wide
Ensure company competitiveness in Big Data & Analytics domain worldwide, represent the company on external events 
Ensure competitiveness of Big Data & Analytics practice worldwide
Represent the company at external events
Establish and maintain a knowledge model for Big Data engineers (qualification standards and evaluation criteria), conduct tech interviews for candidates
Develop and maintain training programs and labs covering Big Data best practices, frameworks and technologies
Develop a mentorship program for Big Data engineers
Drive research of market trends, emerging Big Data approaches, frameworks, and technologies 
Contribute to SS marketing programs by publishing tech articles, blogs in the media and create Case Studies based on delivered projects success stories
Engage and build relationships with other companies and their business stakeholders   
 
**TOGETHER WE WILL**
Multiply success and achievements of Big Data practice, get practice to the new level of maturity
Develop new best practices and standards in order to ensure high business value and high quality of services on a bigger scale
Define financial targets for entire practice, develop roadmap and grow Big Data & Analytics competency companywide
Create new Big Data & Analytics knowledge model and skills map for Big Data experts, which will allow them to meet their professional growth
Your benefits 
Assimilate best practices from experts, working in the team of top-notch Architects
Work with the world-leading companies
Being a part of the Center of Excellence, you will have a chance to address different business and technology challenges, drive multiple projects and initiatives
Speak at international events