Azure Data Architect

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Are you ready to step up to the New and take your technology expertise to the next level?

Accenture is looking for passionate and customer obsessed AWS cloud full stack developers to join our AWS Practice. You will help drive innovation, build differentiated solutions, and define new customer experiences for our customers (and customers, customers). You’ll work with smart people across our industry specialist organizations, and technology groups to help our customers get the most out of AWS in their cloud journey.

The AWS Practice within is home to our deepest AWS experts and supports Accenture’s more than 1,500 certified AWS architects across the company. Join our team and be among Accenture’s most talented AWS practitioners, our AWS SWAT team. The group is responsible for Accenture’s most complex AWS projects and provides our delivery capability for the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG). AABG is the deepest relationship Amazon Web Services has with any partner in the ecosystem. Choosing Accenture and the AWS Practice will take your AWS experience and skills to the next level and allow you to work in an innovative and collaborative environment. At Accenture, you can lead the world’s largest enterprises on the path to native cloud transformation and serverless, on the leading edge of cloud.

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

Learn more about our AWS careers here: AWS cloud careers page

You are:

A motivated, inquisitive developer. You enjoy using your development skills to deliver innovative solutions that help our clients improve the services they provide. Driven by curiosity, you explore how new technologies can be applied to solve challenging business problems. You thrive in a collaborative, creative and productive team environment where ideas are freely exchanged, and innovative concepts evolve into practical solutions.

The work:

Design and Implement AWS architectures and environments

Design Native Cloud Application Architectures or optimize applications for AWS

Collaborating within a project team to solve complex problems

Basic Qualifications

• At least 5 years of consulting or client service delivery experience on Azure
• At least 10 years of experience in big data, database and data warehouse architecture and delivery
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in 2 of the following areas:

§ Solution/technical architecture in the cloud

§ Big Data/analytics/information analysis/database management in the cloud

§ IoT/event-driven/microservices in the cloud

• Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations.
• Extensive hands-on experience implementing data migration and data processing using Azure services:, Serverless Architecture, Azure Storage, Azure SQL DB/DW, Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Analysis Service, HDInsight, Databricks Azure Data Catalog, Cosmo Db, ML Studio, AI/ML, Azure Functions, ARM Templates, Azure DevOps, CI/CD etc.
• Cloud migration methodologies and processes including tools like Azure Data Factory, Event Hub, etc.
• Familiarity with the Technology stack available in the industry for data management, data ingestion, capture, processing and curation: Kafka, StreamSets, Attunity, GoldenGate, Map Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Cassandra, Spark, Flume, Hive, Impala, etc.
• Familiarity with Networking, Windows/Linux virtual machines, Container, Storage, ELB, AutoScaling is a plus
• Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

Nice-to-Have Certifications

• AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
• AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design
• DP-200 Implementing an Azure Data Solution
• DP-201 Designing an Azure Data Solution

Nice-to-Have Skills/Qualifications:

• DevOps on an Azure platform
• Experience developing and deploying ETL solutions on Azure
• Strong in Power BI, Java, C##, Spark, PySpark, Unix shell/Perl scripting
• Familiarity with the technology stack available in the industry for metadata management: Data Governance, Data Quality, MDM, Lineage, Data Catalog etc.

- Multi-cloud experience a plus - Azure, AWS, Google

Professional Skill Requirements

• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Desire to work in an information systems environment
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
• Proven ability to work independently

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