SunnyData is a leading Databricks technology partner, helping customers build scalable architectures, robust data engineering pipelines, and advanced ML and AI applications. As a Solutions Architect, you'll drive customer success on two fronts: hands on technical execution and presales support, splitting your time evenly between the two.
The Impact You Will Have
Customer Engagement: Serve as a trusted advisor to customers, guiding their data engineering and architecture strategy with a focus on Databricks solutions.
Technical Delivery: Design, build, and deploy end to end data solutions that capture, transform, and activate data for AI, ML, and business intelligence initiatives.
Presales Support: Partner with sales teams to present technical solutions to prospective clients, demonstrating the value of SunnyData's offerings.
Project Oversight: Manage multiple customer accounts, ensuring timely delivery and clear reporting on progress and outcomes.
Solution Design: Architect data solutions that incorporate best practices in governance, security, and data quality.
Data Analysis: Evaluate data sources for their value and recommend inclusion strategies that strengthen analytics.
Cross Functional Collaboration & Mentorship: Guide internal teams, mentor project members, and educate end users on data products and analytic environments.
Problem Resolution: Perform system analysis, diagnose data and system defects, and apply the right fix.
Quality Assurance: Test data movement, transformation code, and data components for accuracy and reliability.
Required Experience
Experience: 7+ years as a hands on Solutions Architect and/or Senior Data Engineer, with recent experience implementing data solutions on Databricks.
Technical Proficiency: Expertise in data engineering technologies (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka), the Databricks platform, and data science/ML tooling (pandas, scikit-learn).
Architecture & Solution Design: Deep understanding of the end to end data analytics workflow (data modeling, ETL, data integration) using modern engineering techniques. Able to run architecture discovery, run solution design sessions, and build implementation blueprints that engineering and analytics teams can execute.
Programming Skills: Proficiency in Java, Python, and/or Scala.
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
SQL Expertise: Able to write, debug, and optimize SQL queries.
Client Facing Skills: Strong written and verbal communication, with experience in client facing roles.
Presentation Skills: Able to build and deliver detailed presentations to clients and stakeholders.
Documentation: Experience producing detailed solution documentation, including POCs, roadmaps, sequence diagrams, class hierarchies, and logical system views.
Team Leadership: Experience managing teams and mentoring engineers.
End to End Delivery: Able to take technical solutions into production, ensuring performance, security, scalability, and robust data integration.
Preferred Experience
Distributed Storage: Familiarity with cloud and distributed data storage systems such as S3, ADLS, HDFS, GCS, Kudu, ElasticSearch/Solr, Cassandra, or other NoSQL storage systems.
Data Integration: Experience with data integration technologies like Spark, Kafka, StreamSets, Matillion, Fivetran, NiFi, AWS Data Migration Services, Azure Data Factory, and Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS).
Software Development Lifecycle: Comprehensive experience with the complete SDLC, including design, documentation, implementation, testing, and deployment.
Automated Pipelines: Expertise in automated data transformation and curation using tools like dbt, Spark, Spark Streaming, and automated pipelines.
Workflow Management: Experience with workflow management and orchestration tools like Airflow, AWS Managed Airflow, Luigi, and NiFi.
Domain Knowledge: Background working in the Financial Services industry, preferably in a banking environment.
Regulatory Compliance: Understanding of industry compliance requirements and standards, specifically in banking IT landscapes.
Certifications (at least 2 of the following): Associate Developer for Apache Spark, Data Engineer Associate, Professional Data Engineer, Machine Learning Associate, Professional ML Engineer.
Education
Degree: 4-year Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Benefits
Health Insurance : Employees and their eligible family members including spouses, domestic partners, and children are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
Paid Time Off : Start your career at SunnyData with a minimum of 15 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
An opportunity to grow your technical and people skills, lead teams on complex customer projects that are highly innovative and cutting edge. Great opportunity to grow in your career with the right level of focus, innovation and customer centricity with a high growth consulting company dedicated to Databricks.
Compensation Overview
The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
SunnyData is dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the world around us. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to unbiased hiring practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
Why Join SunnyData?
Innovative Environment: Work with cutting edge technologies alongside industry leaders in data engineering and AI.
Customer Impact: Make a real difference in how businesses leverage data for strategic decision making.
Career Growth: Lead complex, high visibility customer projects with real room to grow your technical and people skills.
Collaborative Culture: Join a supportive team that values collaboration and knowledge sharing.
If you're passionate about data engineering and enjoy partnering with clients to solve their toughest problems, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and become a key player in SunnyData's success story.
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Sunnydata is a technology company focused on data engineering and analytics solutions, specializing in building end-to-end technical solutions for clients.