Big Data Architect

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN - Harman Tech Solutions (HTS)

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN HTS, you solve challenges by creating innovative solutions.

• Combine the physical and digital, making technology a more dynamic force to solve challenges and serve humanity’s needs.
• Empower the company to create new digital business models, enter new markets, and improve customer experiences
  
  

About The Role

Provide technical leadership in architecting and designing end to end solutions for Lebara’s Datalake initiatives as we venture into offering more and more services for consumers across multiple digital channels. Ensuring the current implementation of our big data solutions are in-line with industry best practices and standards. Drive improvements in the current design, processes & implementation to improve operational management, scalability, and extensibility.

What You Will Do:

• Articulate business and data requirements from business analysts across the various functional and business areas and then design/manage enterprise big data solution design, data governance, and automated data reconciliation.
• Hands-on technical big data solution architect with extensive experience in designing big data solutions using open source and cloud native technologies.
• Create and maintain big data solution architectural & design artefacts to ensure the up to date documentation for the relevant program and projects is readily available; ensuring knowledge is disseminated.
• Contribute to the evolution and planning of the enterprise architecture from data perspective by ensuring solutions are developed in line with roadmap.
• Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders to identify and define customer needs
• Involve in partner selection and partner resource selection to ensure that the right partner/resource are selected who would be assisting the company in development & engineering.
• Be the voice of the customer in the context and value of the business requirements
• Manage the Technical Product Backlog of epics and features and drive prioritisation
• Support data lake design, development, release schedule and maintain a development road map
• Ability to clearly articulate pros and cons of various technologies and platforms and architectural options to be able to document use cases, solutions, and recommendations
• Advocate and champion the DataOps within the business, will be responsible that the existing datalake solution running smoothly on data to day basis.
• Maintain your own personal skills and knowledge in the field of enterprise architecture and your functional domain specialisation. Actively contributing to the definition of the overall standards for design, development/configuration (including tools) and related documentation.
  
  

What You Need

• 15+ years, 5+ years as Architect
• Experience in designing data solution following Agile practices (SAFe methodology); designing for testability, deployability and releaseability; rapid prototyping, data modeling, and decentralized innovation
• Has exp working on Data products, Data mesh, real time streaming architectures, worked on kubernetes
• DataOps mindset: allowing the architecture of a system to evolve continuously over time, while simultaneously supporting the needs of current users
• Create and maintain Architectural Runway, and Non-Functional Requirements.
• Design for Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CI/CD data pipeline) and enables Built-in Quality & Security from the start.
• To be able to demonstrate an understanding and ideally use of, at least one recognised architecture framework or standard e.g. TOGAF, Zachman Architecture Framework etc
• The ability to apply data, research, and professional judgment and experience to ensure our products are making the biggest difference to consumers
• Excellent written, verbal and social skills - You will be interacting with all types of people (user experience designers, developers, managers, marketers, etc.)
• Ability to work in a fast paced, multiple project environment on an independent basis and with minimal supervision
• Technologies: AWS, Azure; Azure Synapse, Ni-fi, RDS, Apache Spark & Kafka, Azure Data bricks, Azure Datalake storage, Power BI, Reporting Analytics, SQL on-prem Datawarehouse; BSS, OSS & Enterprise Support Systems
  
  

Behavioral Fit:

• Effectively work in a matrix organization. Lead through influence
• Get things done attitude
• Must be self-motivated and results oriented
• Ability to work in a cross-functional, multi-cultural team and in a collaborative environment.
• Ability to multi-task and plan, organize and prioritize multiple projects.
• Must have a hands-on mentality
  
  

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 25%, domestic and international travel if required.
• Successfully complete a background investigation as a condition of employment
  
  

What We Offer

• Access to employee discounts on world class HARMAN/Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG etc.)
• Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies.
• Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work life integration and collaboration in a global environment.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
  
  

You Belong Here

HARMAN is committed to making every employee feel welcomed, valued, and empowered. No matter what role you play, we encourage you to share your ideas, voice your distinct perspective, and bring your whole self with you – all within a support-minded culture that celebrates what makes each of us unique. We also recognize that learning is a lifelong pursuit and want you to flourish. We proudly offer added opportunities for training, development, and continuing education, further empowering you to live the career you want.

About HARMAN: Where Innovation Unleashes Next-Level Technology

Ever since the 1920s, we’ve been amplifying the sense of sound. Today, that legacy endures, with integrated technology platforms that make the world smarter, safer, and more connected.

Across automotive, lifestyle, and digital transformation solutions, we create innovative technologies that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences. Our renowned automotive and lifestyle solutions can be found everywhere, from the music we play in our cars and homes to venues that feature today’s most sought-after performers, while our digital transformation solutions serve humanity by addressing the world’s ever-evolving needs and demands. Marketing our award-winning portfolio under 16 iconic brands, such as JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel, we set ourselves apart by exceeding the highest engineering and design standards for our customers, our partners and each other.

If you’re ready to innovate and do work that makes a lasting impact, join our talent community today!