Your key responsibilities
As a Solutions Architect, you will liaise with clients to:
- Collate technical and functional requirements through workshops with senior stakeholders in risk, actuarial, pricing and product teams
- Translate business requirements to technical solutions leveraging strong business acumen
- Analyse current business practice, processes, and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging Data & Analytics solutions on various platforms
- Develop solution proposals that provide details of project scope, approach, deliverables and project timeline
- Provide architectural expertise to sales, project and other analytics teams.
- Identify risks, assumptions, and develop pricing estimates for the Data & Analytics solutions
- Provide solution oversight to delivery architects and teams
Skills and attributes for success
- 8-12 years of experience in Big Data, data warehouse, data analytics projects, and/or any Information Management related projects
- Prior experience building large scale enterprise data architectures using commercial and/or open source Data Analytics technologies
- Ability to estimate complexity, effort and cost
- Ability to produce client ready solution architecture, business understandable presentations and good communication skills to lead and run workshops
- Strong knowledge of data manipulation languages such as Spark, Scala, Impala, Hive SQL, Apache Nifi and Kafka necessary to build and maintain complex queries, streaming and real-time data pipelines
- Data modelling and architecting skills including strong foundation in data warehousing concepts, data normalisation, and dimensional data modelling such as OLAP, or data vault
- Good fundamentals around security integration including Kerberos authentication, SAML and data security and privacy such as data masking and tokenisation techniques
- Good knowledge in DevOps engineering using Continuous Integration/ Delivery tools
- An in depth understanding of Cloud solutions (AWS, Azure and/or GCP) and experienced in integrating into traditional hosting/delivery models
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Experience in engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong consulting experience and background, including engaging directly with clients
- Demonstrable Cloud experience with Azure, AWS or GCP
What we look for
Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization.
EY offers a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performancePlus, we offer:
- Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
- Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
- The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you