Join Nordcloud and make your mark on the European IT industry. Help our clients thrive on their cloud journey in solution areas such as infrastructure, migration, data, and security.
Currently, we are looking for a Senior Azure Data Architect for our team in the UK.
You will be assisting the Practice Leadership to shape the data strategy and communicate this to the UK team in order to deliver the vision.
This role will also be supporting the sales and solution process by understanding the customer requirement, identifying the problem which needs to be solved and articulating a solution. Listening to end customers’ challenges, working well in a diverse team at a customer site and remotely would be part of your work as well.
Your daily responsibilities:
- Designing, architecting, and implementing modern cloud-based pipelines for our customers
- Pre-sales activity and assistance with customer proposal writing
- Using best practices to design customer environments
- Making data accessible and usable for a new wave of data-powered apps and services
- Using considered consultancy skills to provide design recommendations to a technical team
- You’ll have a selection of different hats and the luxury of following customer projects from start to release
Your key skills:
- Minimum 8 years of experience with hands on experience and architecture preferably in a consulting environment
- Hands-on experience with Cloud Architecture Design and/or Cloud Architectural Patterns for Development
- Knowledge of cloud platforms: Azure and their data services
- Programming languages skills: Python, Java, Scala,
- Knowledge of frameworks: Spark/PySpark, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Kafka
- Familiarity with tools such as: Jupyter Notebooks, BI Tools
- Databases: SQL, NoSQL, Relational databases (columnar & row-oriented), Graph databases
- Data pipelining: Azure Data Factory
- Analytics skills: Synapse, Databricks
- A blend of technology, consultancy and emergent management skills
- Previous line-manager experience is a bonus but not essential
- Fluent communication skills in English
We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We value your growth potential and enthusiasm!
What do we offer in return?
- Individual training budget and exam fees for partner certifications
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working model
- Laptop and equipment of your choice
- Local package such as up to 7% matched pension contributions, extensive private health care, Bupa dental plan, and a seasonal ticket loan, enhanced maternity and parental leave, gym expense or well-being monthly and mobile phone allowance
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About Nordcloud
Nordcloud, an IBM company, is a European leader in cloud advisory, implementation, application development, managed services, and training. We are triple-certified across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, and we are recognized as a 'Visionary' by Gartner for Public Cloud IT Services. With 10 European hubs and over 1300 employees, we are known for our innovative cloud-native solutions and we have delivered over 1000 successful cloud projects.
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