Custom Application Architect

Custom Application Architect

Project Role : Custom Application Architect
Project Role Description : Design the application architecture of custom software systems to translate business needs into scalable, secure, and high-performing technical solutions.
Must have skills : Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform
Good to have skills : Cloud Data Architecture
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
As an Application Architect, you will provide functional and technical expertise to plan, analyze, define, and support the delivery of future functional and technical capabilities for an application or group of applications. Your typical day will involve collaborating with various teams to assess impacts, producing estimates for client work requests, and ensuring that the applications meet the evolving needs of the organization. You will engage in discussions to identify potential improvements and innovations, while also guiding the team in implementing best practices and methodologies to enhance application performance and user experience.

Roles & Responsibilities:
Work as part of the data engineering team to build, maintain, and optimize scalable data pipelines for large-scale data processing.
Develop and implement ETL/ELT processes using PySpark, Spark, and other relevant tools to move and transform data from various sources.
Assist in designing and deploying solutions in major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Support the development and maintenance of Big Data processing frameworks and data lakes to handle structured and unstructured data.
Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other engineers to ensure data accuracy and availability.
Implement data ingestion strategies, ensuring the secure and efficient movement of data across different storage solutions.
Work on real-time streaming data pipelines and batch data processing to handle high-volume workloads.
Develop and maintain reusable code for data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) operations.
Contribute to performance tuning of Spark jobs and data pipelines to ensure scalability and efficiency.
Assist in maintaining governance and data security practices across cloud platforms

Professional & Technical Skills:
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP for data engineering workflows.
Strong proficiency in PySpark, Spark, or similar frameworks for building scalable data pipelines.
Understanding of Big Data architectures, data storage, and data processing concepts.
Familiarity with cloud-native data storage solutions such as S3, Blob Storage, BigQuery, or Redshift.
Experience with data orchestration tools like Apache Airflow or similar.
Knowledge of data formats like Parquet, Avro, or JSON.
Strong coding skills in Python for building data pipelines.
Good understanding of SQL and database technologies.
Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization skills


Additional Information:
- Experience with real-time data processing and Kafka or similar tools.
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in cloud environments.
Familiarity with dbt (Data Build Tool) for data transformation workflows.
Experience with other ETL tools like Informatica, Talend, or Matillion.

Education Qualification:
- A 15 years full time education is required.