Principal Technical Consultant – Data & Analytics

Job Description: • Utilize expertise and experience to architect, design, develop and deploy solutions for an array of technologies. • Drive a collaborative team leading, mentoring and ensuring development efforts are well documented and delivered with quality. • Own the overall outcome of projects demonstrating high degree of commercial awareness along with exceptional communication skills. • Lead large engagements with technically complex and politically demanding customers. • Participate in pre-sales cycle as technical expert including assisting Sales, System Engineers and Professional Services teams to drive open-source and cloud technologies adoption and maturation. Requirements: • 10+ years of professional technical experience, 5+ years of hands-on Big Data architecture experience • 5+ years of experience building highly scalable Big Data solutions using Hadoop, Spark, stream processing, and Lambda architecture • Experience with Big Data administration, pipeline or code optimization, and complex event processing • Experience implementing complex solutions in large enterprise companies • Experience working in data platforms & cloud environments (AWS and / or Azure), Snowflake, Databricks • Strong client-facing communication and facilitation skills • Customer facing role for min. of 7+ years • 7+ years designing, securing and deploying large-scale applications and solutions • Experience with one of the major cloud vendor environments (development, access, migration) • Effectively communicate with, and present to all levels of the organization • Proven presentation and negotiating skills • Diplomatic approach able to facilitate issue resolution • Subject matter expert in open-source and cloud technologies • Architect level development skills in at least one development language (ex. Java, Python, etc.) • Architect level development skills in at least one messaging protocol (ex. Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS, etc.) • Recognized expertise in at least one area within the organization • Demonstrate deep expertise across multiple technologies • Able to articulate trade-offs between architectural approaches • Strong skills integrating third party tools/technologies • Strong project and situational awareness • Strong attention to detail • Self-starter • Able to travel of at least 25% Benefits: • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401(k) • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.