[Hiring] Senior AWS Data Architect @Vertical Relevance

Role Description

Vertical Relevance is looking for an AWS Data & Analytics Consultant, to join our team as a full-time employee and work remotely. This person is responsible for the end-to-end planning, building, and deploying of software systems. He/she will be able to drive the programming of well-constructed, testable code.

As an AWS Data & Analytics Consultant, you will implement technical solutions as part of a team for customer engagements. This role requires strong teamwork, communication, patience, and organization skills needed to drive customer success.

Responsibilities:

• Help customers shape their journey to adopting the cloud and provide technical and strategic guidance on their “cloud journey”.
• Consult, plan, design, and implement Data solutions on the cloud for customers.
• Design AWS Data Lake implementations.
• Design and Develop AWS Data Quality and Governance solutions.
• Become a deep technical resource that earns our customer's trust.
• Develop high-quality technical content such as automation tools, reference architectures, and white papers to help our customers build on the cloud.
• Innovate on behalf of customers and translate thoughts into action yielding measurable results.
• Support solution development by conveying customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps.
• Assist with technical briefs that document solutions.
• Assist with reference architecture implementations.
• Support internal and external brand development through thought leadership:
• Work with Marketing/Alliances to write blog posts.
• Work with Marketing/Alliances to develop internal case studies.

Qualifications

• Professional experience architecting/operating Data / DevOps solutions built on AWS.
• Experience in software/technology customer facing experience.

Requirements

• AWS Data Architecture and Data Lake Implementation.
• Assist Customer in building out a framework for data collection, data ingestion and catalog, data storage and data serving designed to optimize the efficiency in which information is accessed, curated, served and analyzed from up to two on-premises data sources.
• Assist Customer with implementing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), account, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket strategy and capture impact for introducing critical data for a data lake.
• Assist Customer with achieving modern big data lambda architecture, providing an environment for consumption and utilization of data coming from either batch or streaming sources.
• Assist Customer with defining detailed data architecture including raw data, conformed, structured, enriched, and aggregated.
• Provide Customer general best practices in building production quality data pipeline for ingestion, transformation and consumption to downstream applications through a serving layer.
• Assist Customer with defining details to data catalog and data serving layer through application program interfaces (APIs) if required.
• Provide Customer general best practices for Amazon S3 data storage approach.

Benefits

• Build Ingestion and Orchestration Ingestion based on Customer’s ingestion requirements provided.
• Assist Customer with building a reusable ingestion framework to onboard new data quickly based on one data source example.
• Assist Customer with designing and building robust data ingestion solutions using monitoring, logging and alerting servicing with retry capabilities.
• Assist Customer with server-less approaches where applicable for the ingestion.
• Assist Customer with building the framework for managing data updates to data stored in objects on Amazon S3.
• Provide general best practices to Customer for implementing an extensible and supportable orchestration framework for onboarding data to a lambda architecture for a representative data source.
• Advise Customer on leveraging AWS Services tools for data ingestion including Amazon Kinesis, Amazon EMR, AWS Lambda or other tool defined as part of the assessment.
• Advise Customer on orchestration options on AWS Services including but not limited to AWS Glue, AWS Step Functions, AWS Batch, Amazon EMR, AWS Data Pipeline, AWS Lambda or other AWS native orchestration tooling.
• Assist Customer with building out the orchestration and state management processes to support data processing without data loss and exception and identify error handling.
• Advise Customer on how the orchestration tooling will provide operational feedback to the support organizations in the event of a failure.

Company Description

Vertical Relevance was founded to help business leaders drive value through the design and delivery of effective transformation programs across people, processes, and systems. Our mission is to help firms at any stage of their journey develop custom solutions for success and growth.

• We provide a full range of services from strategy and design through to implementation and training.
• Our collective industry expertise is our greatest asset - our professionals have an average of 20+ years’ experience within Financial Services, across Wealth Management, Asset Management, Insurance, and Banking.
• We focus wholly on your success by first rigorously assessing your business and technology challenges, and then right-sizing solutions that provide a meaningful ROI.
• When it makes sense for your company, we leverage our product partnerships in the areas of CRM, Sales Acceleration, Predictive Analytics, Digital Knowledge Management, and Cloud Transformation.