Software Engineering Solution Architect - Data Platforms Professional Multiple Cities

Your role and responsibilities

As an Architect in IBM Consulting, you will serve as a leader in defining and implementing solutions for clients. You will be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation.

You will collaborate with client stakeholders and internal partners to understand the business problem and requirements, constraints of the system and concerns of the various stakeholders to systematically transform detailed solutions (architectures) for the client.

As a Solution Architect with expertise in Data Platforms, you have specialized in designing end-to-end Big Data Solutions across various platforms, with extensive experience in managing large data repositories (terabyte scale or larger). You have a deep understanding of industry standards, best practices, and the HADOOP Framework, Ecosystem, MapReduce, and Data on Containers (data in OpenShift). In this role you create data solutions tailored to clients, leveraging Cloud and traditional data platform offerings, and oversee the architecture for data platform & cognitive components, including unstructured data technologies, annotation, and related data and analytics. You are experienced with Cloud native platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google, IBM Cloud, or Cloud Native data platforms like Snowflake.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong fundamentals in Computer Science in connection with Big Data solutions
• At least 8 years of proven experience as Data Architect
• Experience in leading technical project teams.
• Strong capability to design modern data lake-house architectures and approaches
• Experience with a variety of legacy platforms such as Oracle, Teradata and/or Hadoop Framework and Ecosystem including data on Containers (data in OpenShift) especially with regard to data transformation/migration scenarios
• Experience with at least two Cloud native platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google, IBM
• Deep Knowledge in data platform analysis, design and implementation in (hybrid-) multi-Cloud environments
• Strong client-facing and consulting skills to shape date-driven transformation strategies.
• Excellent verbal and written German (min. C1 level)

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Solution architect certificates from at least two cloud providers
• Knowledge in data security and GDPR relevant topics
• Databricks and/or snowflake skills are welcome
• Experience with SAP data integration (e.g. SAP Datasphere or SNP Glue) is welcome
• Data Governance skills are welcome

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