Lead Software Solution Architect - 47Lining

Meet our Team

47Lining, a Hitachi Vantara Company, helps customers build, operate and manage state of the art cloud-centric data platforms and solutions for their data-driven businesses. We develop big data solutions and deliver big data managed services built from underlying AWS building blocks like Amazon Redshift, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, Machine Learning and Elastic MapReduce. We help customers build, operate and manage breathtaking "Data Machines" for their data-driven businesses. We architect solutions that address traditional data warehousing, Internet-of-Things analytics back-ends, predictive analytics and machine learning to open up new business opportunities.

At 47Lining, we believe in building high performance teams who are passionate about what they do. We enjoy learning from each other and our clients, and our spirit of collaboration permeates everything we do.

What you'll be doing

We are seeking a Principal Consultant. A Lead Software Solution Architect to lead the team and manage industrial process optimization engagements. Engagements focus on optimization of customer industrial processes through application of IoT, edge computing and backhaul, cloud-native data lake, agile analytics, and data ops in Amazon Web Services. The ideal contributor will have a strong hands-on engineering background coupled with professional services delivery experience and a track record for partnering closely with customer teams to deliver successful engagements on-time and in-budget.

Key Focus Areas

• Work closely with customers to ensure successful delivery
• Manage matrixed engineering resources allocated to engagement delivery teams
• Contribute to and manage technical delivery:
  • Front End Application Development (Application Views & Controller)
  • REST API design and development
  • Domain Entity and Behavior Modeling, Design, and Implementation
  • 3rd-party application, service and data integration
  • Data Management, Mapping, Translation & Persistence
  • Large-scale Data Management & Workflow
  • Analytic development and automation

What you bring to the team

Technical Skills

• Strong background in commercial-grade software development with Java, Python, SQL
• Hands-on experience developing advanced analytics in SQL, R, Spark or similar tools
• Experience with AWS architectures, development, and deployment. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional desired. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate required.
• Strong experience with middle-tier web services systems decomposition, definition, and development (REST APIs)
• Ability to work across all layers of an application, from back-end databases through UI
• Proficient with SQL databases and knowledge of standard methodologies
• Experience with enterprise-scale data warehouse technologies (Teradata, Oracle, SQL Data Warehouse, Vertica, Redshift)
• Good working knowledge of Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark
• Experience managing applications in AWS and familiarity with core services including EC2, S3, RDS, etc.
• Experience with deployment automation tools like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible
• Exposure to networking & load balancing solutions
• Ability to work with development teams to deliver high-quality
• Agile / Scrum development methodology
• Technical system decomposition, architecture, design, and specification
• Excellent documentation habits

Business Skills

• Vision to partner with customers on roadmap and liaise with sales and delivery teams to distill customer needs to actionable proposals and statements of work
• Ability to identify and articulate sources of customer value from data & advanced analytics. Ability to create roadmaps and decompose phases and steps to realize value.
• Strong complex process, workflow, and business system requirements capture, decomposition, solutions integration, and cross-team management capabilities.
• Ability to write high-level agile stories based on customer needs and break them down into actionable technical tasks for contributors
• Experience managing and supporting technical contributors
• Ability to work closely with customer teams and communicate effectively about scope, schedule, resources trade-offs
• Experience creating deliverables that articulate business value of technical work

Our Company

Hitachi Vantara is part of the Global Hitachi family. We balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what's now to what's next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their digital challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society.

Our people are our biggest asset, they drive our innovation advantage and we strive to offer a flexible and collaborative workplace where they can thrive. Diversity of thought is welcomed and our employee base is represented by several active Employee Resource Group communities. We offer industry leading benefits packages (flexible working, generous pension and private healthcare) and promote a creative and inclusive culture. If driving real change gives you a sense of pride and you are passionate about powering social good, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Values

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. With Japanese roots going back over 100 years, our culture is founded on the values of our parent company expressed as the Hitachi Spirit:

Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect

Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge