Solutions Architect (Managed Services)

Join phData a dynamic and innovative leader in the modern data stack. We partner with major cloud data platforms like Snowflake AWS Azure GCP Fivetran and dbt to deliver cutting-edge services and solutions. We're committed to helping global enterprises overcome their toughest data challenges. Even though we're growing extremely fast we maintain a casual exciting work environment. We hire top performers and allow you the autonomy to deliver results.

• 4x Snowflake Partner of the Year (2020 2021 2022 2023)

• #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications

• 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Fivetran dbt Sigma Award Winners)

• 7x Best Places to Work

• Inc 5000 Fastest Growing US Companies (2020-2023)

Fueled by talented Data Scientists Engineers Architects and innovative thought leaders phData is shaping the future of data. We're looking for Solutions Architects to join our Elastic Operations team to serve as hands-on technical leaders to help customers operate and manage their next generation cloud data platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Operate and manage modern data platforms - from streaming to data lakes to analytics and beyond across a progressively evolving technical stack.

• Demonstrate clear ownership of multiple simultaneous customer accounts across a variety of technical stacks and act as a technical leader.

• Proactively identify and articulate best practices and improvements to customers on how to best leverage their Cloud Data Platform.

• Skillfully navigate complex customer environments and build Epics Stories and Tasks in order to mature and improve our customer’s data platform.  Delegate to and coach Engineers and ensure successful and timely delivery of these Epics.

• Provide thought leadership by recommending the right technologies and approaches to maturing and solving problems to help ensure performance security scalability and user satisfaction.

• Continually hunt for ways to automate and optimize existing processes.

Required Experience:

• Strong communication skills in English

• Strong working knowledge of SQL and the ability to write debug and optimize SQL queries

• Extensive experience in providing architectural guidance and operational support across a large user base for a cloud-native data warehouse (Snowflake and/or Redshift)

• Expertise with cloud-native data technologies in AWS or Azure

• Production support experience in large enterprise environment supporting cloud data platforms and a variety of cloud data technologies (AWS Services/S3 Aurora Athena Redshift Sagemaker Azure DevOps/SQL Azure Data Factory etc.....

• Proven experience learning new technology stacks and training team members

• Professional track record of creating challenging and improving processes and procedures

• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills including database administration

• Create and deliver detailed presentations

• Client-facing written and verbal communication skills and experience

Preferred Experience:

• Production / database administration experience and certifications in core data platforms such as Snowflake AWS Azure GCP Hadoop or Databricks

• Production experience working with Cloud and Distributed Data Storage technologies such as S3 ADLS HDFS GCS Kudu ElasticSearch/Solr Cassandra or other NoSQL storage systems

• Production experience working with Data integration technologies such as Spark Kafka event/streaming Streamsets Matillion Fivetran HVR NiFi AWS Data Migration Services Azure DataFactory Google DataProc or others

• Production experience working with Workflow Management and Orchestration such as Airflow AWS Managed Airflow Luigi NiFi

• Working experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or Cloud Formation

• Strong expertise of scripting language to automate repetitive tasks (preferred Python)

• Well versed with continuous integration and deployment frameworks with hands-on experience using CI/CD tools like Bitbucket Github Flyway Liquibase

• Experience as a technical team lead

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Why phData? We offer:

• Remote-First Workplace

• Medical Insurance for Self & Family

• Medical Insurance for Parents

• Term Life & Personal Accident

• Wellness Allowance

• Broadband Reimbursement

• 2-4 week bootcamp and provide continuous learning opportunities to enhance your skills and expertise

• Other perks include paid certifications professional development allowance and additional compensation for creating company-approved content (dashboards blogs videos whitepapers etc.)

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