Description
The Data Architect is tasked with overseeing the creation of a cloud data lake and the corresponding organizational and cultural changes needed to help the data lake become sustainable by the external/internal customers. You’ll be accelerating the organization forward while helping them solve difficult technology problems. You will foster an environment that empowers teams and facilitates the development of your team members, setting everyone up to deliver their best work.
Responsibilities
Organizational skills and consulting abilities that:
Develop and evolve technology strategy, aligned to and prioritized by business objectives
Influence / coach enterprise architecture on modern evolutionary cloud architecture principles and practices
Develop and communicate measurements of the data lake build progress and impact
Support organizational changes regarding capability development, restructuring toward product-centric team models, and transitioning to modern agile SDLC practices
Communicate technical decisions to non-technical audiences and build consensus around them
Articulate the value of foundational technology approaches to business executives (e.g. the pros & cons of microservices architectures in a given context)
Own key relationships both up & downstream of the data lake teams to ensure delivery.
Guide delivery programs with one or more business applications which will be drivers for the emerging delivery infrastructure and API platforms.
Strategize with the Business User, Solution Architects and subject matter experts on creating and combining elements of the data lake and ensure delivery against it.
Be responsible for engaging with technical and business stakeholders to understand clients’ needs, prioritize the delivery approach, and guide technical leads in solution delivery.
Evangelize business benefits and impact of the data lake as well as the value of modern delivery and engineering practices.
Support external/internal client architects in developing technology roadmaps, including effectively evaluating build/rent/buy decisions.
Perform account management activities, such as delivery assurance and helping shape new processes.
Think through hard problems, and work with a team to make them reality.
Learn something new every day.
Requirements
High School diploma or GED required
Bachelor's Degree or related field or equivalent work experience
Experience in public cloud service offerings (IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS services as well high-level product offerings such, as Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform)
Experience as an architect in a Databricks environment
Modern data architectures
Strong Experience in public cloud service offerings (IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS services as well high-level product offerings such, as Microsoft Azure)
Infrastructure as Software (Container Orchestration, Observability, CI/CD)
Modern security practices
Modern API platform design
Modern data architectures (e.g. event driven architectures, data democratization, cloud approaches to support ML/AI at scale, stream processing, and integrating real time analytics into customer applications)
So, what are you waiting for? A new career awaits you with endless opportunities.
Bunzl is a global leader in the Cleaning & Hygiene, Food Processing, Grocery, Health Care, Non-Food Retail, and Safety industries. We have grown both organically and through acquisitions to sales in excess of $10 billion. Bunzl North America is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Bunzl North America owns and operates more than 100 warehouses and serves all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and parts of the Caribbean and Mexico. With more than 5,000 employees and 400,000 plus supplies, Bunzl is regarded as a leading supplier in North America.
Bunzl Distribution offers competitive salaries, a comfortable work environment, and a full range of benefits including a 401k with a company match.
Bunzl Distribution has a tradition of commitment to equal employment opportunity. It is the established policy to attract and retain the best qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status as provided by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)