Responsibilities:
- Work alongside a best-in-class team to design and develop cloud solutions
- Gather technical requirements, assess client capabilities and analyze findings to provide appropriate cloud solution recommendations and adoption strategy
- Define Cloud strategies, including crafting multi-phased implementation roadmaps
- Be versed in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and/or Microsoft Azure cloud solutions, architecture, related technologies, and their interdependencies
- Research, analyze, recommend and select technical approaches for solving difficult and meaningful development and integration problems
- Learn and embrace new tools and techniques to increase performance, automation, and scalability
- Mentor other Slalom team members
- Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution
- Provide technical direction and oversight to cloud implementation teams
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of data engineering and/or data warehousing experience
- 2+ years of deep experience building cloud data solutions (Azure, AWS, GCP, Snowflake)
- Deep experience with designing and deploying end to end solutions with a cloud platform’s analytic services including storage, permissions, private cloud, database services, virtual machines, and parallel processing technologies
- Experience with big data application development and/or with cloud data warehousing (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Redshift, Snowflake, Azure SQL DW, BigQuery)
- Working knowledge of agile development including DevOps concepts
- Experience with cloud SDKs and programmatic access services
- Proficient in a relevant programming language for cloud platforms (e.g. Python, Java, C#, Unix)
- Proficient in SQL
- Working experience with version control platforms e.g. Git
- Strong communication skills
- Previous consulting experience
- At least one cloud certification (Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
- Strong analytical problem-solving ability
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a project team