Big Data Architect - Remote United States

Why KyndrylWe design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. Our people are at the center, discovering, co-creating, and strengthening. We push ourselves and each other to seek better, to go further, and we carry this energy to our customers. In October 2020, IBM announced it's intention to separate the IT Infrastructure Services unit of its Global Technology Services division into a new, separate public company, creating two industry-leading companies - IBM and Kyndryl. The spin-off is expected to be completed by the end of 2021. To find out more about Kyndryl, including information relating to privacy, please visit Kyndryl.com.Please be aware Kyndryl will continue to use some IBM systems for a certain period after spin-off. This means when you sign up to either the IBM or Kyndryl candidate portal, you will have the benefit of being able to see and apply for IBM and Kyndryl jobs and to access information about IBM and Kyndryl jobs you have applied to, for a limited period from either candidate portal. If you have already signed up as a candidate on IBM's portal, please continue to use this account to access IBM and Kyndryl jobs. Your Role and ResponsibilitiesKyndryl is looking for leaders who are passionate about helping some of the world's biggest companies to successfully achieve their Data Center Transformation. Do you have experience about the Overall Data Architecture and guiding principles, best practices, and patterns? Do you have strong Consulting experience within the different domains that make up Information Management? Can you break that knowledge down for our clients to show them their opportunities and solve their risks?Our Big Data Architects are leaders. They've gained 7+ years' experience in technology, 5+ years' experience and exposure to multiple industries and organizational functions with respect to their Data needs, challenges and solutions and are ready to make a meaningful impact on our clients. Sometimes that leadership manifests in such deep technical expertise that they can lead and perform hands-on technical development, deploy, and technical designs for projects to achieve client's Information Management needs and to help rescue clients from blocked or difficult projects. Translating client requirements, understanding client's circumstances, and executing project services to support the design and implementation of Information Management solutions, in order to deliver Dashboards, Analytics and data governance solutions. You will use assets and reference architectures, build proof-of concepts, build and execute implementation plans, testing plans and deployment plans to address client requirements and work with products or solutions based on partner hardware and/or partner software. Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Deliverable based driven
• Client Facing Success Driven
• Client Satisfaction Focused
• Strong & Trusted relationships with clients
• Business Growth Passion
• Problem Solver & Creative Thinker
• Desired Outcome Focused
• Diligent and Engaging Communicator
• Timely and Accurate information keeper
• Works without supervision and strong collaboration
• Performs and Balances tasks on multiple concurrent projects across multiple customers
• Understands department/ functional mission and vision
• Exposed to demands of travel and irregular work hours
• Solution creation based on requirements
• Team leader
• Mentoring your peers

• Review, validate and assess client's requirements, and product's specifications/features.
• Create the required artifacts (design document, diagrams, ASD, HLD, LLD, etc.)
• Design Big Data Architecture Solution
• Work closely with customer and internal teams to gather business and technical requirements.
• Accountable for successful delivery of highly complex, multi-disciplined consulting engagements that deliver lasting and measurable value to clients
• Develop a point of view, capture, prioritize and analyze technical (functional and non-functional) requirements
• Possess strong leadership skills and further the evolution of intellectual capital assets and developing architectural resources
• Apply Architectural Methods and Techniques.
• Manage the technical architectural contract terms and conditions
• Educate, mentor and coach teams in applying architectural techniques
• Facilitate and capture lessons learned from projects to update methodologies and assets
• Develop a point of view, capture, prioritize and analyze technical (functional and non-functional) requirements
• Be a recognized as a technical though leader inside and outside of IBM
• Support company initiatives for offerings, contracts, technologies, and go-to-market
• Set priorities to build technical architectural and project assets/deliverables for repurposing
• Successfully lead Customer's migration and transformation projects

• Provided professional services (Design, Deployment, Troubleshooting, Assessment)
• Implementation of clients' technical strategy
• Designed and implemented a compliant design and infrastructures solution meeting delivery criteria
• Increasing the quality, quantity and frequency of client conversations and engagements for project and implementation services opportunities
• Increase the awareness, applicability and value of consulting services with our clients, sales force and delivery organization
• Achieve a "trusted advisor" persona as viewed by our clients, seller and delivery organization
• Instill a sense of urgency and drive to close consulting practice deals
• Maximize the project and architecture practice abilities and capabilities to increase project and solution success

• Leading teams towards an outcome and break down impediments
• Applied Implementation "Hands on" using Methods and/or best practices to deliver Cloud, On-Premises or Hybrid Solution
• Applied Mature Architecture design framework, principles and methodologies (high-level technical design, low-level technical design, and technical solution design integration)
• Applied Agile principles
• Applied Project Management practices
• Ability to Interpret requirements and create solutions
• Ability to Facilitate workshops
• Managing technical project workstreams to completion
• Ability to articulate key technologies' impact on cost, capacity, transformation, risk, business enablement and transformation objectives
• Applied Client Facing Ability to understand and provide guidance and recommendations on solutions to address clients' needs, challenges and transformations
• Evaluate risk and merit to make recommendations on available and speculative information

• Prior experience of at least 2-3 years as a Big Data Architect, and should have been involved in solutioning and implementing enterprise Big Data solutions
• Very good knowledge on the entire commercial and opensource Big Data ecosystem
• Deep experience with a variety of big data technologies (HDFS, Hive, Pig, Spark, SQLaaS, Parquet/Avro, Hadoop, etc.)
• Thought leader expertise within the areas of data analysis, data preparation, and data wrangling, with expert skills in Python and coding complex SQL queries
• Experience with ETL, Persistence, Data Lakes, Data Warehousing, and Data Quality engineering
• Some experience with Server Platforms (Windows, Linux, or UNIX)
• Some experience with commercial and opensource Data management ecosystem.
• Some experience with Third Party Cloud Infrastructures (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
• Some understanding of up-to-date Network architecture concepts and system integration principles including high-end routers / switches, Network & Security, Network Virtualization, Cloud Network Deployments, and other related infrastructure and system components.
• Some understanding of middleware, networking, application architecture, shared services and other components of n-tier applications.

• Applied Azure and/or AWS data analytics engineering and designing skills