Architect - Data Engineering
5 days ago
Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organisations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.
Architect - Data Engineering
The purpose of our Data practice at Slalom is to build a better future with Data. Through trusted partnerships with our clients, we co-create modern data solutions that drive results and improve the world. We are continuing to grow our practice whilst keeping Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness at the forefront, and hiring individuals who share a similar passion for data, technology, and culture. Joining our team will allow you to partner with our clients to learn from their data, create incredible digital experiences, and make the most of ML and analytics. We blend design, engineering, and expertise to help them build the future.
What You Will Do
- Work in small, collaborative teams with minimal oversight and direction to design and deliver innovative solutions on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform using core cloud data warehouse tools, distributed processing engines, event streaming platforms, and other modern data technologies.
- Build the next generation of data platforms and work with some of the most forward-thinking organizations in data and analytics.
- Responsible for understanding the client's current environment and technical challenges as well as their plans for evolving or creating their future state architecture.
- Using your personal experiences, architecture expertise and your consultative skills, you will facilitate working design sessions with Slalom and Client technical teams to drive the strategy, architecture, and implementation of a data engineering solution.
- Effectively describe the pros and cons of your solution design and drive the combined Slalom and client team to a consensus.
- Breaking down complex development tasks and will be responsible for the timely quality completion of development items assigned to you and the development team reporting to you, ensuring that they support the Technical Solution you designed.
- As time allows, you will participate in pre-sales activities, including helping define an approach to solving a prospect's technical challenges and helping the business development team estimate and plan projects to address those challenges.
What You Will Bring
- Broad experience in architecture design, a deep expertise in one or more data engineering technologies (listed below), a curious mindset to your client's engagement, a thirst for knowledge, and a hunger for fearless experimentation in new and interesting ways to meet our clients' most pressing data challenges.
- Self-starter mindset and ability effectively break down large problems into smaller ones and regularly share your learnings within your projects and in the broader Slalom community.
- Hands-on experience with new data platforms and programming languages as you explore the range of technologies that we help our clients with, including:
- Big Data Platforms (Apache Spark, Presto, Amazon EMR) Cloud Data Warehouses (Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Google BigQuery)
- Object Oriented Coding (Java, Python)
- NoSQL Databases (DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, MongoDB)
- Container Management Systems (Kubernetes, Amazon ECS)
- Streaming Data Ingestion and Analytics (Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka)
- Modern Data Workflows (Apache Airflow, dbt, Dagster)
Our Values
Our culture and values reflect each individual Slalomer. We are dedicated to encouraging workplace diversity and ensuring all our people, from any background can contribute to their full potential. We wish to build a team that echoes the diversity of the communities we serve, and our values are an active part of our every-day, guiding our decisions.
What keeps us here?
When we moved to Australia in 2020, we had no idea just how important our work/life balance would need to be. We've asked our consultants what makes Slalom a great place to work and the most common answer – "the freedom to be ourselves when life gets in the way". We make a big effort to bring everyone together and allow space when space is needed. We believe in helping each other thrive in work and life and are proud to invest in benefits that include holistic wellbeing, meaningful allowances, and investment in our team's professional, technical, and personal growth.
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Slalom does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
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