Job Title: Azure Data / Solutions Architect
Location: Edison, NJ
Duration: 12+ Months/Fulltime
Required Skills and Experience:
Ability to develop cloud architectures on Azure and provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, Big Data Platform, RDBMS, NoSQL and other data services, serverless architectures, hadoop ecosystem, vendor products and security.
Participate in deep architectural discussions with client stakeholders to showcase, build and align when building/migrations solutions/data applications to Azure.
Ability to conduct full technical discovery, identifying pain points, business and technical requirements.
Ability to develop comparative solution alternatives across both technical (multi-cloud, multiple DB options) and other business parameters.
Ability to narrow down to proof-of-concepts and projects based on complexities for cloud migration.
Experience in column-oriented database technologies (i.e. Azure SQL DW, CosmosDB etc.) and traditional database systems (SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Oracle, MySQL, etc.)
Experience in data integration projects and automation via ETL Tools (i.e. Azure Data Factory, Talend, Informatica, SSIS, etc.)
Experience in data integration automation via Apache Beam, Spark, Databricks
Experience with data modeling, warehouse design, and fact/dimension concepts.
Experience architecting and building data marts, warehouses, etc.
Experience working with different query languages (i.e. PL-SQL, T-SQL).
Understanding of development and project methodologies.
Ability to work collaboratively in teams with other specialized individuals.
Able to work in a fast-paced, technical environment.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
BS in Computer Science or equivalent education/professional experience is required.
10+ years in a data engineering role with demonstrable experience with data integration and data warehouse projects.
One or more Azure Certifications is a plus