Circle K ยท 6 hours ago
Data/Information Architect
Tempe, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expCircle K is a prominent company seeking a Data/Information Architect. The role involves designing end-to-end architecture for a unified data platform, managing architecture initiatives, and mentoring talent while ensuring alignment with business strategies.
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Responsibilities
Must have designed the E2E architecture of unified data platform covering all the aspects of data lifecycle starting from Data Ingestion, Transformation, operations, and consumption
Experience in handling the key activities for the Enterprise Architecture practice for a specific sector
Managing and mentoring architecture talent in the respective sector
Should have delivered architecture initiatives and showcased clear business efficiency in line with business strategies
Should have taken end-end responsibility & accountability in terms of architecture
Should have delivered architecture roadmaps and develop delivery blueprints for the technology design
Excellent communication skills and customer management skills
Should be able to deliver architectural initiatives in the space of digital, cloud, open-source technologies
Should have performed a similar role & capacity for large transformational engagements
Hands on development Design and Develop applications using Databricks
Experience with Azure, AWS, or other cloud technologies
In depth understanding of Spark Architecture including Spark Core, Spark SQL, Data Frames, Spark Streaming, RDD caching, Spark MLib
Good to have any programming language experience with Python/ SQL or Spark/Scala
Strong understanding of Data Modeling and defining conceptual logical and physical data models
To be successful in this role, this individual must be familiar with data integration, data modeling, data warehousing, big data technologies, and should be the subject matter expert
Maintains close awareness of new and emerging technologies and their potential application for service offerings and products
Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for cloud-centric solutions based on industry standards using IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities
Experience building and supporting mission-critical technology components with DR capabilities
Experience with multi-tier system and service design & development for large enterprises
Exposure to infrastructure and application security technologies and approaches
Familiarity with requirements gathering techniques
Qualification
Required
Must have excellent coding skills either Python or Scala, preferably Python
Must have at least 10+ years of experience in architecture, design, implementation, and analytics solutions with total of 12+ years in Data Engineering domain
Must have designed and implemented at least 2-3 projects end-to-end in Databricks
Must have at least 3+ years of experience in databricks which consists of various components as below
Delta lake
dbConnect
db API 2.0
SQL Endpoint Photon engine
Unity Catalog
Databricks workflows orchestration
Security management
Platform governance
Data Security
Must have followed various architectural principles to design best suited per problem
Must be well versed with Databricks Lakehouse concept and its implementation in enterprise environments
Must have strong understanding of Data warehousing and various governance and security standards around Databricks
Must have knowledge of cluster optimization and its integration with various cloud services
Must have good understanding to create complex data pipelines
Must be strong in SQL and spark-sql
Must have strong performance optimization skills to improve efficiency and reduce cost
Must have worked on designing both Batch and streaming data pipeline
Must have extensive knowledge of Spark and Hive data processing framework
Must have worked on any cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) and most common services like ADLS/S3, ADF/Lambda, Cloud databases
Must be strong in writing unit test case and integration test
Must have strong communication skills and have worked with cross-platform teams
Must have great attitude towards learning new skills and upskilling the existing skills
Responsible for setting best practices around Databricks CI/CD
Must understand composable architecture to take full advantage of Databricks capabilities
Experience with machine learning tools such as mlFlow, Databricks AI/ML, Azure ML, AWS sagemaker, etc
Experience in distilling complex technical challenges to actionable decisions for stakeholders and guiding project teams by building consensus and mediating compromises when necessary
Experience coordinating the intersection of complex system dependencies and interactions
Experience in solution delivery using common methodologies especially SAFe Agile but also Waterfall, Iterative, etc
Preferred
Good to have Rest API knowledge
Good to have understanding around cost distribution
Good to have knowledge on migration project to build Unified data platform
Good to have knowledge of DBT
Experience around DevSecOps including docker and Kubernetes
Software development full lifecycle methodologies, patterns, frameworks, libraries, and tools
Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash etc
Experience with data ingestion technologies such as Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Pentaho, Alteryx
Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI
Demonstrated knowledge of relevant industry trends and standards
Company
Circle K
Our mission at Circle K is to make our customers' lives a little easier every day.
10001+ employees
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EVP, Chief Technology Officer
Brian Hannasch
Chief Operating Officer
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