Principal Architect

About Hakkōda

Hakkōda is a modern data consultancy that empowers data-driven organizations to realize the full value of the Snowflake Data Cloud. We provide consulting and managed services in data architecture, data engineering, analytics and data science. We are renowned for bringing our clients deep expertise, being easy to work with, and being an amazing place to work! We are looking for curious and creative individuals who want to be part of a fast-paced, dynamic environment, where everyone’s input and efforts are valued. We hire outstanding individuals and give them the opportunity to thrive in a collaborative atmosphere that values learning, growth, and hard work. Our team is distributed across North America, Latin America, and Europe. If you have the desire to be a part of an exciting, challenging, and rapidly growing Snowflake consulting services company, and if you are passionate about making a difference in this world, we would love to talk to you!

Role Description:

A Hakkoda Principal Data Architect will demonstrate strong leadership with the ability to collaborate across teams performing work for our clients. You will have advanced experience and technical capabilities working with current and modern data technologies. You understand project and program management, people leadership and how to communicate effectively internally and externally with clients. 

You will provide guidance and leadership to project teams who will be moving data to the cloud, designing ingestion pipelines (ETL/ ELT), architecting data warehousings, performing analytics and data science and building data intensive applications. The architect role requires solid hands on experience, excellent analytical skills, team orientation, flexibility, innovative thinking, problem solving, conflict management, and self-motivation.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for people experienced with building data warehouses and analytics systems in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). The opportunity requires you to be able to contribute at a senior level, to design, develop, and troubleshoot complex data issues at the enterprise level. You will provide leadership and expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, and practices. If you have a strong understanding of how to create a modern data architecture, you may be a perfect fit for this role!

Qualifications:

• 6+yrs in related technical roles, 2+ in leading the development of modern data architecture, preferably in a consulting capacity
• Experience in end to end data architecture from ingestion to consumption & establishing data analytics
• Exposure to Cloud data platforms like Snowflake is a plus
• Experience with architecting for Business Intelligence - transitioning from legacy BI to new age BIAs a foundation you must have extensive knowledge with operationalizing a data lake in a production environment
• Experience designing and developing data warehouses (Teradata, Oracle Exadata, Netezza, SQL Server, Spark)
• Experience building ETL / ELT ingestion pipelines with tools like DataStage, Informatica, Matillion
• Ability to design & document how the above tools are scaled, sized and deployed
• Experience standing up a data lake/warehouse in a cloud environment is desirable
• Experience with business intelligence / data analytics
• Cloud experience on AWS (Azure, GCP are nice to have as well)
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve development and operational bottlenecks
• A thorough understanding of how to secure the data lake and warehouse is required.
• You must also have the ability to lead the data teams in designing an optimal security implementationProven experience using SQLProven experience using Python or Scala
• Eligible to work in the US without visa sponsorship

Hakkōda is an exciting, high-growth company, and we’re scaling our team. We are looking for exceptional people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Hakkōda. We are a collaborative team of high achievers. We love to explore, challenge and have a lot of fun along the way. Are you ready for the adventure? Click here to see our culture on display.

Benefits will vary by country:

- Medical, Dental, Vision

- Life Insurance

- Paid parental leave

- Paid time off

- Work from home benefits for 100% remote roles

- Technical training and certifications

- Robust learning and development opportunities