Senior Architect | Data Engineering

Work in small, collaborative teams with minimal oversight and direction to design and deliver innovative solutions on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform using core cloud data warehouse tools, distributed processing engines, event streaming platforms, and other modern data technologies.
Build the next generation of data platforms and work with some of the most forward-thinking organizations in data and analytics.
Responsible for understanding the client’s current environment and technical challenges as well as their plans for evolving or creating their future state architecture.
Using your personal experiences, architecture expertise and your consultative skills, you will facilitate working design sessions with Slalom and Client technical teams to drive the strategy, architecture, and implementation of a data engineering solution.
Effectively describe the pros and cons of your solution design and drive the combined Slalom and client team to a consensus.
Breaking down complex development tasks and will be responsible for the timely quality completion of development items assigned to you and the development team reporting to you, ensuring that they support the Technical Solution you designed.
As time allows, you will participate in pre-sales activities including helping define an approach to solving a prospect’s technical challenges and helping the business development team estimate and plan projects to address those challenges.


What will you bring?

Broad experience in architecture design, a deep expertise in one or more data engineering technologies (listed below), a curious mindset to your client’s engagement, a thirst for knowledge, and a hunger for fearless experimentation in new and interesting ways to meet our clients’ most pressing data challenges.
Self-starter mindset and ability to effectively break down large problems into smaller ones and regularly share your learnings within your projects and in the broader Slalom Build community.
Hands-on experience building data platforms and using different programming languages as you will explore the range of technologies that we help our clients with including:
Big Data Platforms (Apache Spark/Presto/Amazon EMR)
Cloud Data Warehouses (Amazon Redshift/ Snowflake/ Google BigQuery)
Object Oriented Coding (Java/Python)
NoSQL Databases (DynamoDB/ Cosmos DB/ MongoDB)
Container Management Systems (Kubernetes/ Amazon ECS)
Streaming Data Ingestion and Analytics (Amazon Kinesis/ Apache Kafka)
Modern Data Workflows (Apache Airflow/ dbt/ Dagster).


Note: this role requires to be based in Auckland, New Zealand.



About Us

Slalom_build forms part of the global consulting company, Slalom. We co-create custom software, data and cloud products with clients who are ready to accelerate their digital transformation. We're passionate about technology, compelled by its potential as we help create the digital products, experiences, and technology-driven organizations that drive true change. We're thrilled by the opportunity to build the future we want to see, with anyone willing to join us.