Cloud Architect (Google Cloud)

THE ROLE
As Senior Cloud Architect at Datatonic you will shape the architecture for key projects. You'll be engaging with our customers and prospects to provide pre & post sales architectural advice and thought leadership for machine learning, analytics, and data migration projects. In addition to that, you will be helping us to build out the architectural side of our next-generation machine learning products.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional in cloud technologies who would like to work as part of a team of experts in the fields of AI and data, as a subject matter expert in solution/cloud architecture. The role is customer-facing, working closely with business and technical influencers, and will require a background in Computer Science. Successful candidates will bring multiple years’ experience with cloud platforms like Google Cloud or AWS. Ideally, you'll have served as an SME in designing and migrating applications to live in the cloud, working with complex cloud deployments, and being adept at the design and implementation of complex platforms.
As Senior Cloud Architect at Datatonic, you will:
Work with the most innovative and scalable data processing and cloud technologies
Build innovative state-of-the-art solutions with our customers
Support our sales teams when engaging with new customers/projects. Provide technical inputs to help shape and scope solutions to solve our clients most challenging needs
Execute architecture reviews for some of our key customers. Identify and share recommendations with senior client stakeholders
Input into our internal knowledge base helping us develop collateral and thought leadership
Work in an agile and dynamic environment together with a small team with our data scientists, machine learning experts, data analysts and data engineers
Be a leader and mentor to other team members
Work closely with our tech partners: Google Cloud, Tableau, Looker
Play a key role in shaping the architecture team at Datatonic
Qualifications:
BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Proven experience building big data cloud architecture
The ability to take ownership from end-to-end, finding creative solutions
Demonstrated, strong analytical and technical capabilities, with an innovative 'edge'
Exceptional communication skills; both written and verbal with great attention to detail.
Able to present concepts in an authoritative and clear manner to customers through white-boarding, presentations, and proposals
Ability to develop and maintain relationships with key external stakeholders at various business levels
Experience in technical pre-sales, able to evangelise disruptive proposals
Expertise in cloud technologies and their design/usage (across all areas i.e. data/security/networking etc)
Knowledge and experience with container technologies
Programming experience, ideally in Python, Java and SQL
Experience building scalable and high-performant code
Bonus Points:
Google Cloud or AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification
Experience with ETL tools, Hadoop-based technologies (e.g. Spark) and/or batch/streaming data pipelines (e.g. Beam, Flink)
Experience designing and building data lake and data warehouse solutions using technology such as BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Redshift, Oracle, Teradata, etc
Experience designing and building analytical products using technology such as Looker, Tableau, Data Studio, PowerBI, Qlik, etc
Experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum
Basic knowledge of and ideally some experience with data science topics like machine learning, data mining, statistics, and visualisation
Contributions to open-source projects
What success looks like as a Senior Cloud Architect at Datatonic?
While the position is a hands-on technical role, we'd be particularly interested to find candidates with a desire to lead projects and take an active role in leading client discussions. Your responsibilities will involve building trusted relationships with prospects, finding creative ways to solve problems, scoping projects, and overseeing the delivery of these engagements.
This is an exceptional chance for seasoned cloud technology professionals who wish to be part of a team of AI and data experts, serving as a subject matter authority in solution and cloud architecture. In this customer-facing role, you will closely collaborate with both business and technical professionals.
Successful candidates will bring several years of experience working with cloud platforms like Google Cloud or AWS. Ideally, you will have served as a subject matter expert in designing and migrating applications to the cloud, managing complex cloud deployments, and excelling in the design and implementation of intricate platforms.
Datatonic is an equal-opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. Our current team is made up of folks from very different backgrounds, including a former librarian, oceanographer and comic bookstore owner! If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway. Please reach out to us directly at ##### if you need assistance or accommodation due to disability.
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