Big Data Architect

**About Persistent**

We are a trusted Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what?s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world including 14 of the 30 most innovative US companies, 80% of the largest banks in the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Our growth trajectory continues, as we reported $1,186M annual revenue (13.2% Y-o-Y). Along with our growth, we?ve onboarded over 4900 new employees in the past year, bringing our total employee count to over 23,850+ people located in 21 countries across the globe. Throughout this market-leading growth, we?ve maintained strong employee satisfaction - over 94% of our employees approve of the CEO and 89% recommend working at Persistent to a friend.

At Persistent, we embrace diversity to unlock everyone's potential. Our programs empower our workforce by harnessing varied backgrounds for creative, innovative problem-solving. Our inclusive environment fosters belonging, encouraging employees to unleash their full potential.

**About The Position**

We are looking for a Data Architect with creativity and results-oriented critical thinking to meet complex challenges and develop new strategies for acquiring, analyzing, modeling and storing data.

In this role you will guide the company into the future and utilize the latest technology and information management methodologies to meet our requirements for effective logical data modeling, metadata management and database warehouse domains. You will be working with experts in a variety of industries, including computer science and software development, as well as department heads and senior executives to integrate new technologies and refine system performance.

We reward dedicated performance with exceptional pay and benefits, as well as tuition reimbursement and career growth opportunities.

**What You?ll Do**
- Define data retention policies
- Monitor performance and advise any necessary infrastructure changes
- Mentor junior engineers and work with other architects to deliver best in class solutions
- Implement ETL / ELT process and orchestration of data flows
- Recommend and drive adoption of newer tools and techniques from the big data ecosystem

**Expertise You?ll Bring**
- 10+ years in industry, building and managing big data systems
- Building, monitoring, and optimizing reliable and cost-efficient pipelines for SaaS is a must
- Building stream-processing systems, using solutions such as Storm or Spark-Streaming
- Dealing and integrating with data storage systems like SQL and NoSQL databases, file systems and object storage like s3
- Reporting solutions like Pentaho, PowerBI, Looker including customizations
- Working with SaaS based data management products will be an added advantage
- Proficiency and expertise in Cloudera / Hortonworks
- Spark
- HDF and NiFi
- RDBMS, NoSQL like Vertica, Redshift, Data Modelling with physical design and SQL performance optimization
- Messaging systems, JMS, Active MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka
- Big Data technology like Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL based data-warehousing solutions
- Data warehousing, reporting including customization, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Core java, Spring/IOC, Design patterns
- Big Data querying tools, such as Pig, Hive, and Impala
- Open-source technologies and databases (SQL & NoSQL)
- Proficient understanding of distributed computing principles
- Ability to solve any ongoing issues with operating the cluster
- Scale data pipelines using open-source components and AWS services
- Cloud (AWS), provisioning, capacity planning and performance analysis at various levels
- Web-based SOA architecture implementation with design pattern experience will be an added advantage

**Benefits**
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
- Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
- Annual health check-ups
- Insurance coverage : group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

**Our company fosters a values-driven and people centric work environment that enables our employees to**:

- Accelerate growth, both professionally and personally
- Impact the world in powerful, positive ways, using the latest technologies
- Enjoy collaborative innovation, with diversity and work-life wellbeing at the core
- Unlock global opportunities to work and learn with the industry?s best

**Let's unleash your full potential. See Beyond, Rise Above