Engineering Head - Solution Architect - BFS

Responsibilities:

- In this role, you'll be responsible for managing the team overseeing the design, development and operations of large-scale, real-time data systems. The ideal candidate will be excited by the prospect of owning, optimizing or even re-designing our company's data architecture and building out a team to support our next generation of products and data initiatives. Your Data Engineering team will support our software developers, database architects, data analysts, data scientists, and machine learning engineers on back-end data initiatives.

- Both be able to work as an Individual contributor as well as collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders from Design, Product, Data, and Engineering in order to deliver against highly aggressive delivery timelines.

Characteristics:

- Must have a strong passion for coding

- Must be a self-starter

- Must take quality, security and performance seriously

- Ability to pair with other engineers and cross-team as needed

- Be excellent in a crisis driving the product team towards quick actions to positively impact clients.

- Running zero-downtime deployments

Tech Requirements:

- 7-15 Years of professional experience with at least 2 years experience in a hands-on Solution Architect role.

- Minimum 3 years of experience in Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Pair programming, and Test Driven Development.

- Understanding of the trade-offs between different big data solutions

- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets

- Experience with a variety of traditional, streaming, and big data tools such as: Kafka, Sqoop, Flume

- Airflow or other workflow schedulers

- Data Warehouses: Redshift, Snowflake (preferred)

- SQL databases, including MySQL, Postgres

- Stream-processing systems: Storm or Spark-Streaming or equivalent.

- Advanced Python, Java and/or Scala, SQL

- Experience in developing crawlers, fetchers, and HTML parsers

- Experience with Elastic Search or alike technology is highly desirable, Graph Databases: Neo4J

- Software management tools such as Git, JIRA

- Language agnostic: Code polyglot able to take up any language and technology without pain.

- Strong product intuition and business analysis abilities.

Compensation: Salary no bar for deserving candidates