Cloud Data Engineering - Lead Job in Pythian

What will you be doing?

• Lead architecture, design and development of end to end Cloud-based solutions with heavy focus on application and data and good understanding of infrastructure
• Act as a architectural lead within a small team of globally dispersed Cloud Consultants, supporting the team in overcoming challenges by helping to remove roadblocks and developing options and solutions
• Work with other Architects and the cloud Squad Leaders to ensure sound dev, test and QA practices
• Work with PMs and other Architects to prioritize, assign and communicate work to team members
• Ensure that the solution design is followed
• Periodic travel to client sites for face to face meetings and presentations
• Interface with Pythian s clients, directly, regularly to exchange feedback on the implementation, business needs, and over all products(s)
• Conducting technical audits of existing architectures (Infrastructure, Performance, Developing data security as a function of design as well as Scalability and more)
• Providing component or site-wide performance optimizations and capacity planning.
• Documenting best practices and recommendations
• Developing application data architecture models to further enable effective service oriented delivery (3NF, Denormalized, Entity/Relationship, Dimensional etc)
• Working with both internal and client development teams directly to help engineers to build highly available, more manageable cloud platforms.

What do we need from you?

• This is a wish list and there will be plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and contribute to the Team and Customers needs and grow with Pythian. While we realise you might not have everything to be the successful candidate for the Data Engineer job you will likely have skills such as;
• Understanding and experience with Cloud architectures specifically: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• In-depth knowledge of popular database and data warehouse technologies & concepts from Google, Amazon or Microsoft and/or (cloud & Conventional RDBMS), BigQuery, Redshift, Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Snowflake etc.
• Strong knowledge of cloud batch and stream processing architectures.
• Good experience with enterprise scale data modeling
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture.
• Data quality process experience including data cleansing, audits and alerts, triage mechanisms & processes and referential integrity
• Be fluent in a couple of object oriented language, preferably Java and Python, familiarity with Scala and Go would be a plus.
• A certification such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Google Professional Data Engineer or related AWS Certified Solutions Architect / cloud or Microsoft Azure Architect
• Experience or interest in people management, in a player-coach style of leadership longer term would be great.

What do you get in return?

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards package with excellent take home salaries, shifted work time bonus and an annual bonus plan!
• Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with a minimum 0.6 Lakh INR* annual training allowance; 2 paid professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
• Love your work/life balance: 3 weeks of paid time off and flexible working hours. Work remotely from your home when you need to!
• Love your workspace: We are opening a brand new office in Bangalore but we also give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, with 0.3 lakh INR* budget to personalise your work environment!
• Love your community: Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity. To support in keeping our people, their families and their communities safe.