Cloud Data Architect

Clarkston Consulting - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Austin, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Cloud Data Architect at Clarkston Consulting, you will be responsible for delivering innovative business solutions to clients in the life sciences, consumer products, and retail sectors. This role involves designing and developing scalable cloud data platforms, providing technical expertise in emerging technologies, and mentoring junior team members. You will work closely with various stakeholders to translate business objectives into effective architectural strategies and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, and vendors.
• Display advanced analytical and conceptual skills to create original concepts for various projects.
• Design and develop platforms for scalable solutions.
• Provide forward-thinking technical expertise in current and emerging technologies, trends, and practices.
• Design, prototype, and develop cloud data platforms utilizing Azure or AWS.
• Translate business goals and objectives into architectural strategies and technical solutions.
• Develop and apply architectural governance based on business and information technology strategies.
• Anticipate internal/external business challenges, including regulatory, and recommend process, product, or service enhancements.
• Serve in a lead capacity on client initiatives.
• Mentor junior Data Architects and Data Engineers on Clarkston's analytics team.
• Assist in defining and managing client solutions.

Requirements

• Experience with data management solutions using data lake platform tools and technologies.
• Experience with data architecture, specifically in support of data warehousing, business intelligence, master data management, and reference data management.
• Familiarity with delivering Data as a Service (DaaS) concepts from enterprise repositories using REST APIs.
• Familiarity with Azure or AWS-based data and data management tools.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with data integration points for TOGAF (or other recognized architecture framework).
• Working knowledge of development or operations framework methodologies, including Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), etc.
• Familiarity with developing data catalogues and integrating with existing enterprise architecture.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and process automation.
• Experience with Snowflake, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, or related technologies.
• Experience in using various data modeling techniques and their appropriate usage in data integration.
• Experience in working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, and vendors.
• Significant experience in performing analysis of business processes and functions.
• Significant experience in work as an engineer or technical subject matter expert in two or more of the following areas: infrastructure, data, application, security related technology.
• Effective skill in creating system diagrams for review by both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Advanced analytical and conceptual skills to create original concepts/theories for various projects.
• Effective skill in applying innovative approaches to solve technical design issues.
• 4-year degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or an equivalent discipline.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Paid holidays
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance