Principal Architect (Data Streaming & Integration)

Principal Architect (Data Streaming & Integration)

Role & responsibilities:

• Advise clients on strategic technical decisions, develop and present best practices.
• Lead Discovery engagements to assess a client's existing workloads, infrastructure & software environments;
• Develop target state infra/application architecture and chart a path to delivery for a wide variety of use cases;
• Advise and direct delivery/implementation teams engaged in digital transformation and cloud migrations;
• Able to engage with clients at Pre-sales stages;
• Assess competing technologies to make best-fit recommendations for clients;
• Be immersed in a continual learning environment, adopting new techniques, patterns, and tools;
• Complete certifications and accreditations, advancing your technical skills and overall career;
• Fulfill people management responsibilities for staff in Europe.

What you will bring:

• A bachelors degree in something interesting or equivalent experience;
• 10 years experience in a technology organization with significant responsibility for setting technical direction;
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and with limited direction, translate high-level goals into measurable milestones, and deliver on them;
• Broad familiarity with Linux/Windows systems, Cloud infrastructure, Messaging/Streaming technologies, Data-stores/Databases, Application/API design, Internet and Networking Protocols, Security Architecture, Version Control Systems, and CI/CD tools;
• Deep experience with several of the following platforms Kafka, Flink, Spark, Kubernetes, API Gateways, and messaging systems (Tibco, IBM MQ, and open-source variants);
• Deep familiarity with data streaming, integration patterns, and how they can be best utilized to deliver feature velocity, improve data security, reduce data processing timelines and resource efficiency;
• Some form of programming experience;
• A desire and demonstrated ability to learn new technologies, develop new skills, and solve tough problems;
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills;
• Excellent presentation skills;
• Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall project management;
• Manufacturing/Transport and/or Financial Services experience is a big.

Additional Skills:

• Interacting directly with clients and senior executives in an advisory or consulting capacity;
• Large deployments on AWS, Azure, Google Compute or OpenStack;
• Streaming Data, Event-Driven Architecture, Micro-services, distributed compute/processing systems;
• Automated Testing and/or Test Data Management;
• Containerization technologies and best practices, especially Kubernetes;
• Experience working in globally distributed teams.