Senior Big Data Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Czechia.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the complete solution architecture for extensive distributed data, streaming, and data integration solutions.

• Serve as the primary architect for distributed data, integration, and platforms within Data Solutions.

• Offer architectural guidance, governance, design assurance, and technical leadership across various initiatives.

• Influence the advancement of target architecture and ensure it aligns with the enterprise technology strategy, engineering standards, and long-term platform goals.

• Lead solution architecture for the Enterprise Data Lake, Operational Datastore, and associated data platform services within the Cloudera CDP environment on AWS.

• Design and document scalable distributed data and streaming solutions across Cloudera, Kafka, API, and cloud platforms.

• Define patterns for ingestion, processing, storage, and consumption.

• Provide architectural oversight throughout the solution delivery process.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure solutions are feasible, scalable, secure, supportable, and consistent with enterprise architecture principles.

• Review technical designs created by engineering teams.

• Identify technical risks, dependencies, assumptions, non-functional requirements, and design trade-offs.

• Assist in delivery planning by breaking down solutions into iterative delivery increments and sprint-level results.

• Represent solution designs at architecture review boards and governance forums.

• Engage with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and enterprise architects.

• Develop and promote architectural patterns, engineering standards, and best practices across the data platform ecosystem.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of overall IT experience, with substantial expertise in data platform, integration, or distributed systems delivery.

• Demonstrated experience in architecting streaming or real-time data applications utilizing Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies.

• Knowledge of Kafka consumer architecture, including consumer groups, offsets, retries, dead-letter handling, ordering, partitioning, and scalability.

• Proven experience in designing solutions on Cloudera CDH/CDP, or significant experience with equivalent enterprise-scale distributed data platforms.

• Experience in designing and delivering large-scale data ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption patterns.

• Strong comprehension of batch and real-time data processing architectures.

• Experience working in complex enterprise environments involving multiple systems, vendors, platforms, and governance processes.

• Strong understanding of non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, resilience, security, observability, and operational support.

• Experience providing architectural leadership across multiple workstreams, programs, or delivery teams.

• Experience in mentoring architects, senior engineers, or technical leads and influencing technical decision-making.

• Familiarity with distributed data platforms and data lake architecture on Cloudera CDH/CDP or equivalent platforms.

• Knowledge of event streaming and real-time integration technologies, including Kafka and related messaging patterns.

• Experience with large-scale data processing and transformation frameworks such as Spark, Flink, Hive, Impala, or similar technologies.

• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and REST services.

• Experience with NoSQL and distributed data storage technologies including HBase, Cassandra, or equivalent platforms.

• Familiarity with cloud services, preferably AWS.

• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and resilience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Long-term remote-first contract position.

• Remote work available within the EU.

• Contract duration through December 2026, with the potential for extension to 2027.