Principal Consultant - 100% Remote (US only)

Our Company

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., helps data-driven leaders use the value in their data to innovate intelligently and reach outcomes that matter for business and society - what we call a double bottom line. Only Hitachi Vantara combines 100+ years of experience in operational technology (OT) and 60+ years in IT to unlock the power of data from your business, your people and your machines. We help enterprises store, enrich, activate and monetize data for better customer experiences, new revenue streams and lower business costs.

47Lining, a part of Hitachi Vantara is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner with Big Data and Machine Learning Competency designations. 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. Our experience spans use cases in multiple industries including industrial, manufacturing, oil & gas, energy, life sciences, gaming, retail analytics, financial services and media & entertainment.

The Role

We are seeking Principal Consultants to lead 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.

Responsibilities

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

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

Qualifications

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

We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.