Data Architect

Summary

Join Caylent's growing Cloud Data Engineering team as an exceptional Data Architect. You will be a mission control specialist, guiding Cayliens and Customers through Agile ceremonies. Translate customer requirements into actionable tickets for engineers, delegate tasks, and lead requirements gathering and architecture discussions. Apply your DevOps pipeline understanding and troubleshoot issues in customer environments. Automate software testing, write production-quality code, and work with a team to deliver top-quality cloud native applications on AWS. Clearly communicate designs and mentor less experienced teammates. This role requires expertise in data architecture, ML system design, and AWS solutions.

Requirements

• Confidently addresses client questions and identifies gaps in requirements with proposed next steps
• Focus on delivering clear, actionable solutions that meet client goals
• Facilitates alignment across stakeholders or technical priorities and deliverables
• Navigates differing perspectives with professionalism to ensure shared understanding and progress
• Breaks down complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences in a clear, concise manner
• Adapts communication style based on audience and context to improve clarity and decision-making
• Experience designing and implementing at least two of the following: ETL, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines
• SQL databases, stored procedures, query optimization
• Analytics and visualization
• MDM and data governance
• Experience implementing at least two of the following on AWS: High availability solutions, read/write replicas, performance tuning
• RDS and Aurora optimization
• Large scale application migration with a focus on databases
• Security, access controls, and governance in the cloud
• Expert-level understanding of data warehouses and RDBMs (Redshift, Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL)
• Proficiency with IaC tools (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform) and CI/CD tools
• Experience with AWS Glue, Lambda, SDKs

Responsibilities

• Work alongside Caylent’s Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Project Managers to deliver AWS solutions across our diverse and forward-thinking customer base
• Work with the latest technologies and support customers looking to bring cutting-edge ideas to market
• Be a mission control specialist, guiding Cayliens and Customers alike through Agile ceremonies like stand-ups, retrospectives, and more
• Translate customer requirements and into a workable backlog of tickets for engineers
• Delegate tickets to a team of engineers in order to complete customer projects
• Lead requirements gathering, backlog grooming, and architecture discussions
• Apply your understanding of DevOps pipelines, including build automation, branching strategies, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, security, monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in customer dev, test, and production environments
• Automate software testing at multiple levels (component, configuration item, subsystem, system) and monitor results
• Write production quality code, including unit and integration tests
• Work with a team to deliver top-quality cloud native applications on AWS for customers
• Clearly communicate and document your designs, processes, and procedures
• Demonstrate a passion to Stay Curious as you mentor peers, tackle new technologies, and learn from our word-class team of engineers
• Coach and mentor less experienced teammates, coach and be mentored by world class engineers

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Equitable Life - Hybrid Plan
• 100% Premium Coverage for the employee and dependents
• Competitive phantom equity
• Long-Term Disability
• 4% Pension match (employer contribution)
• Unlimited Vacations
• Sick Leave
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Paid for exams and certifications
• Peer bonus awards
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture