Product Solution Architect

15 - 25 Years- 3 Openings- Pune**Role description**:
We are looking for an experienced and motivated **Product Solution Architect** with deep expertise in designing and implementing cutting-edge big-data solutions on the **Amazon Web Services (AWS)** platform. As a key member of our dynamic team, you will play an integral role in driving the success of our data-driven initiatives, utilizing AWS services to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance big-data solutions.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Solution Design**: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, and data scientists to understand business requirements and transform them into innovative big-data solutions on AWS.
- **Architecture Development**: Design and implement robust, cost-effective, and well-architected AWS-based big-data solutions, adhering to industry best practices. Leverage AWS services such as Amazon S3, EMR, Glue, Redshift, DynamoDB, and more.
- **Technology Evaluation**: Stay current with the latest AWS services and big-data technologies. Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies to enhance data processing, storage, and analytics capabilities.
- **Implementation & Deployment**: Lead the technical implementation of big-data solutions on AWS, owning the full development lifecycle from prototyping to production deployment.
- **Performance Optimization**: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to ensure that big-data solutions are optimized for scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
- **Security & Compliance**: Ensure solutions comply with stringent security and compliance standards, safeguarding sensitive data and adhering to industry regulations.
- **Collaboration & Communication**: Engage with stakeholders to understand their needs, provide technical guidance, and communicate complex concepts in a clear and understandable manner.
- **Troubleshooting & Support**: Assist in troubleshooting technical issues related to big-data solutions, providing timely support to ensure system uptime and reliability.
- **AWS Ecosystem Expertise**: Strong familiarity with the AWS ecosystem, including services like Sagemaker, Glue, Athena, Lambda, and training/processing jobs, to streamline data workflows.

**Technical Expertise**:

- Hands-on experience with tools and technologies such as **Glue, Glue Catalog, Crawler, Lambda, Airflow, IAM, S3, Athena, Redshift, Python, PySpark, SQL, DynamoDB**.
- Strong understanding of data transformation techniques, version control (GIT/Bit Bucket), and data processing pipelines.
- Provide technical leadership to the data engineering team, mentor junior engineers, and foster a collaborative, innovative environment.
- Ensure high-quality data management across the entire data pipeline, including data quality, consistency, and accuracy.
- Implement and enforce data security measures and compliance standards.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation for data engineering processes, data models, and system architecture.

**Basic Qualifications**:

- **Experience**: Proven experience as a **Solution Architect** or similar role with a focus on big-data solutions on AWS.
- **AWS Expertise**: Deep knowledge of AWS services relevant to big-data, including but not limited to **Amazon S3, EMR, Glue, Sagemaker, Redshift, Athena, DynamoDB**.
- **Technical Skills**: Proficiency in **data modeling, data warehousing**, and **data integration** concepts. Hands-on experience with **Python**, **Java**, or **Scala** for big-data processing and analytics.
- **Big-Data Frameworks**: Familiarity with big-data processing frameworks such as **Apache Spark, Hadoop, Apache Flink**.
- **Security & Compliance**: Solid understanding of data security, encryption, and best practices for compliance on AWS.
- **Problem Solving**: Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to tackle complex technical challenges.
- **Communication Skills**: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

**Skills**:
Solution Architect, AWS, BigData, Python, Java, Scala

**About UST**:
UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.