Data On Cloud Architect Role

Cloud Data Architect
Role: T0
The ideal professional for this Cloud Architect role will:

- Have a passion for design, technology, analysis, collaboration, agility, and planning, along with a drive for continuous improvement and innovation.
- Exhibit expertise in managing high-volume data projects that leverage Cloud Platforms, Data Warehouse reporting and BI Tools, and the development of relational databases.
- Research, identify, and internally market enabling data management technologies based on business and end-user requirements.
- Demonstrate strong technical leadership skills and the ability to mentor others in related technologies.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field or equivalent professional experience is required.
- Preferred master’s degree in computer science, information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience.
- 10+ years of hands-on software development experience building data platforms with tools and technologies such as Hadoop, Cloudera, Spark, Kafka, Relational SQL, NoSQL databases, and data pipeline/workflow management tools.
- 6+ years of experience working with various cloud platforms (at least two from among AWS, Azure & GCP).
- Experience in multi-cloud data platform migration and hands-on experience working with AWS, AZURE / GCP
- Experience in Data & Analytics projects is a must.
- Data modeling experience - relational and dimensional with consumption requirements (reporting, dashboarding, and analytics).
- Must know the key tenets of architecting and designing solutions on AWS and Azure Clouds.
- Expertise and implementation experience in data-specific areas, such as AWS Data Lake, Data Lakehouse Architecture, and Azure Synapse and SQL Datawarehouse.
- Be the Voice of the Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with the Engineering team to remove key blockers, and drive migration solutions and implementations.
- Familiarity with tools like DBT, Airflow, and data test automation.
- MUST have experience with Python/PySpark/Scala in Big Data environments.
- Strong skills in SQL queries in Big Data tools such as Hive, Impala, Presto.
- Experience working with and extracting value from large, disconnected, and/or unstructured datasets.
- Demonstrated ability to build processes that support data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL), and working familiarity with a variety of databases.
- Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
- Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

**About Virtusa**

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.

Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.

Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.