Principal Architect/Director (Data Streaming & Integration) - Ness Digital Engineering
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About the Job
Description
Job id 4823
Why Ness
We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff’s professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world’s leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world.
You’ll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression.
You’ll also benefit from an array of advantages like access to trainings and certifications, bonuses, and aids, socializing activities, and attractive compensation.
Requirements and responsibilities
What you’ll do
- Advise clients on strategic technical decisions, develop and present best practices;
- Lead Discovery engagements to assess a client's existing workloads, infrastructure & software environments;
- Develop target state infra/application architecture and chart a path to delivery for a wide variety of use cases;
- Advise and direct delivery/implementation teams engaged in digital transformation and cloud migrations;
- Able to engage with clients at Pre-sales stages;
- Assess competing technologies to make best-fit recommendations for clients;
- Be immersed in a continual learning environment, adopting new techniques, patterns, and tools;
- Complete certifications and accreditations, advancing your technical skills and overall career;
- Fulfill people management responsibilities for staff in Europe.
What you’ll bring
- A bachelor’s degree in something interesting or equivalent experience;
- 10 years experience in a technology organization with significant responsibility for setting technical direction;
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and with limited direction, translate high-level goals into measurable milestones, and deliver on them;
- Broad familiarity with Linux/Windows systems, Cloud infrastructure, Messaging/Streaming technologies, Data-stores/Databases, Application/API design, Internet and Networking Protocols, Security Architecture, Version Control Systems, and CI/CD tools;
- Deep experience with several of the following platforms Kafka, Flink, Spark, Kubernetes, API Gateways, and messaging systems (Tibco, IBM MQ, and open-source variants);
- Deep familiarity with data streaming, integration patterns, and how they can be best utilized to deliver feature velocity, improve data security, reduce data processing timelines and resource efficiency;
- Some form of programming experience;
- A desire and demonstrated ability to learn new technologies, develop new skills, and solve tough problems;
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills;
- Excellent presentation skills;
- Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall project management;
- Manufacturing/Transport and/or Financial Services experience is a big plus.
Additional Skills
- Interacting directly with clients and senior executives in an advisory or consulting capacity;
- Large deployments on AWS, Azure, Google Compute or OpenStack;
- Streaming Data, Event-Driven Architecture, Micro-services, distributed compute/processing systems;
- Automated Testing and/or Test Data Management;
- Containerization technologies and best practices, especially Kubernetes;
- Experience working in globally distributed teams.
Not checking every single requirement?
If this role sounds good to you, even if you don’t meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills.
Let’s meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.
At Ness Digital Engineering we are willing to build a work culture that is based on diversification, inclusion, and authenticity.