[Remote] Data Architect

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TekStream Solutions is seeking a Data Architect to serve as the primary data solutions architect for a data services and visualization platform for a large federal agency. The role involves leading the design of data lakes, data warehouses, and visualization services, as well as providing technical guidance and mentorship to the technical team. Responsibilities • This position will be responsible for serving as the primary data solutions architect for a data services/visualization platform for a large federal agency • The architect will lead the design of data lakes, data warehouses, and visualization services and work with data/cloud engineers to design data pipelines to ingest, clean and transform both batch and streaming data • Leading the design of data warehouses, data lakes and datamarts including both the logical and physical models • Assist in soliciting and assessing requirements for the data warehouses/data lakes among data consumers/analysts, visualization specialists, programmers, and engineers • Optimizing the design and tuning the performance of data warehouses for efficient loading and high performance for data queries • Facilitating change control processes for the data model within the repositories including integrating with arenaflex/CD pipelines • Designing and implementing a metadata repository to be used for data discovery/catalog services across the enterprise • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other members of the technical team Skills • Data Warehousing/Data Architect Experience (10+ years) • Data Architecting a data lake and/or data warehouse model including defining the use of standard conventions using cloud components (AWS S3, AWS Redshift, AWS Aurora Postgres) • Creating logical and physical data models for data repositories containing a number of heterogenous sources • Creating work streams for the development team using an Agile framework; developing a roadmap Initiatives and Epics and work with a scrum master to define stories with clear acceptance criteria • Optimizing data warehouses for high performance for varying types of use cases (high frequency loads, large loads, high frequency queries) • Implementing various archiving and partitioning approaches to optimize data ingestion, data storage costs and meet data retention requirements • Software Development, Leadership and Customer Experience (5+ years) • The Data Architect should be able to elicit requirements from the client including complex process flows and design data models that will support the development of the application. Ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership including translating complex technical concepts into specific and understandable technology recommendations • Demonstrate an understanding of cloud components in either AWS or Azure to design a cloud-native technical solution for the application e.g. the use of AWS Lambdas, SNS/queues, API Gateway, Cloudfront, CloudFormation. Will lead the data model and process flow controller design to support an efficient and intuitive user interface view for the application • The Data Architect will be responsible for creating work streams for the development team to build out the functional infrastructure in Data bricks and create the application using an Agile framework; developing a roadmap Initiatives and Epics to accomplish the development plan within an Agile framework and work with a scrum master to define stories with clear acceptance criteria • Experience designing data models for transactional applications • Experience working with Data bricks or other data engineering, machine learning, data analytics platform to build a data lakehouse and data warehouse solution • Experience with data replication, high availability, and data migrations tools and techniques • Use of integrating visualization tools, such as Tableau, Qlik, Socrata, with data lakes and data warehouses) • Use of Big Data tools including Apache Spark, Databricks, Sagemaker and MLFlow • Experience with Azure data tools including Synapse and Data Factory • Net Core 5/6/7 Web Application development experience, particularly on Blazor and Syncfusion Blazor area • AWS Solution Architect Certification, Databricks certification • Bachelor's Degree in a related area or equivalent experience Company Overview • TekStream Solutions is a tech solutions company that specializes in addressing the company-wide IT problems faced by enterprise businesses. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • TekStream Solutions has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025, 2 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 3 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job Apply tot his job

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