JOB DESCRIPTION
Skill: AWS Cloud Data Solution Architect
Role: T0
Our Big Data Competency Center offers consulting services for big data development, tool evaluations, solution architecture and design, and end-to-end implementation services using big data ecosystems like Hadoop, NOSQL, graph databases, and appliances. Our state-of-the-art Advanced Technology Centers in the United States and India have the infrastructure to conduct R&D as well as PoCs across multiple technologies. We help measure enterprise analytics maturity, deliver an analytics roadmap, and recommend embedding analytics into existing operations to measure business outcomes. Our Advanced Analytics Competency Center offers comprehensives services in business analytics that provide decision support, trending, and forecasting.
The service offering range spans from traditional BI use cases to more complex and advanced analytical solutions like Social Analytics, Web Data Analytics, Text Analytics, Real-time BI, and Predictive Analytics (Predictive Analytics Models such as Targeting Customers by Direct Marketing, Market Basket Analysis, Case Management), Model Implementation, Advanced Data Visualization, End User Application, etc.
Key responsibility:
- Understand customer requirements and render those as architectural models that will operate at large scale and high performance. Where customers have architectures prepared, validate them against non-functional requirements and finalize the build model.
- Work alongside customers to build data management platforms using Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), Redshift, Kinesis, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Athena, Lake Formation, S3, AWS Glue, DynamoDB, ElastiCache and the Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Well experience on other AWS services EC2, EMR, Redshift, S3, Streaming services like Kafka, Kinesis, HDFS.
- Conversion of Hive SQL to AWS Glue based sql.
- Security of EMR cluster using KMS keys or customer managed keys
- Render working, high performance data management solutions, as CloudFormation and reusable artifacts for implementation by the customer. Bootstrap using user data scripts will be added advantage
- Prepare architecture and design briefs that outline the key features and decision points of the application built in the Data Lab
- Work with customers to advise on changes as they put these systems live on AWS
- Extract best-practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns from these engagements for sharing with the worldwide AWS solution architect community
Qualifications
• Highly technical and analytical, possessing 3 or more years of Database and/or Analytics Systems development and deployment experience, IT systems and engineering experience, security and compliance experience, etc.
• Possess significant experience of software development and/or IT and implementation/consulting experience.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations and virtual teams.
• Ability to think understand complex business requirements and render them as prototype systems with quick turnaround time.
• Implementation and tuning experience in the Big Data Ecosystem, (such as EMR, Hadoop, Spark, R, Presto, Hive), Database (such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server), NoSQL (such as DynamoDB, HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra, design principles) and Data Warehousing (such as Redshift, Teradata, Vertica, schema design, query tuning and optimization) and data migration and integration.
• Track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of business environments such as large enterprises and start-ups.
• Knowledge of foundation infrastructure requirements such as Networking, Storage, and Hardware Optimization.
• BS level technical degree required; Computer Science or Mathematics background preferred. [DB1]
• AWS Certification, eg. AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, or AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty (Data Analytics Speciality)
About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 30,000+ people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
