Senior Data Architect – Big Data (AWS) Full Time

Summary:

The Senior Data Architect – Big Data (AWS) at Rackspace Technology, a remote role in the US, designs advanced data solutions for AWS clients. Rackspace, a multicloud expert, supports companies in cloud adoption and innovation. This position leads data platform development, leveraging AWS for analytics and AI, within a team dedicated to solving complex challenges and fostering growth.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, define and implement end-to-end modern data platforms in support of analytics and AI use cases.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, data architects, ETL developers & engineers, data scientists, and information designers to lead identification and definition of required data structures, formats, pipelines, metadata, and workload orchestration capabilities.
• Address aspects such as data privacy & security, data ingestion & processing, data storage & compute, analytical & operational consumption, data modeling, data virtualization, self-service data preparation & analytics, AI enablement, and API integrations.
• Be the technical liaison between customers and engineering teams.
• Directly collaborate with the sales team to formulate and execute a sales strategy to facilitate the adoption of AWS and big data technologies and help build offerings.
• Be an AWS evangelist by educating a variety of customers on the value of AWS and AWS’s Data services.
• Traveling up to 50% of the time.

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience leading engagements from design to implementation of creative data solutions leveraging the latest in Big Data frameworks, supporting on-premise, cloud (Ideally AWS) and hybrid architectures to enable use cases in analytics and AI.
• 5+ years experience architecting solutions for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional sources such as structured, unstructured, and semi-structured using SQL, NoSQL and data pipelines for real-time, streaming, batch and on-demand workloads.
• 3+ years experience with analytics/data management strategy formulation, architectural blueprinting, business case development and effort estimation of disruptor based analytics.
• 3+ years working in the cloud or multi-server complex environments. Experience with AWS a requirement.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts into an easy-to-understand non-technical language in order to facilitate, communicate and interact with executives and business stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile development methods in data-oriented projects.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in quantitative areas such as Computer Science, Information Management, Big Data & Analytics, or a related field is desired (Educational Qualifications).

Benefits:

• The anticipated starting pay range of Colorado and New York City applicants for this role is $143,700 – 204,000 and $167,400 – 223,200. Based on eligibility, compensation for the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonus, commissions, or other discretionary payments.
• Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent.