Remote Big Data Tech Lead supporting AWS data analytics projects: assist technical supervision, perform code reviews, estimate scope/LOE, design and prioritize data solutions, manage technical delivery, and clarify business context to maximize impact.
This is a remote position.
ClearScale (headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA) - AWS Premier Consulting Partner has been offering a full range of professional cloud computing services for over 10 years , including architecture design, DevOps automation, refactoring and cloud-native applications development, integration, migration, solving all sorts of security issues (from just a security check to preventing cyber-attacks) and 24/7 technical support using the best advanced technology.
The list of our customers is diverse: from governments ( ClearScale is an official cloud partner of the State of California) and educational institutions (University of California, San Francisco) to well-known global brands (IBM, Samsung, Salvation Army, GoPro, HP, Conde Nast, Carl Zeiss, etc.) The number of satisfied customers has been well over 850, some of which can be found on the company's website in the Case Studies section.
- We were the third company to gain a new AWS competence: Applied AI and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) . Less than 15 partners have this competency!
- We have obtained the status in the Database Freedom program (less than 20 companies in)
- Proven expertise as a Managed Services Provider (less than 16 companies in). This means that ClearScale can perform full cycle consultancy and service: from audits, system or software development to the 24/7 support. You can read more about this on the company page - Managed Services.
Our projects
ClearScale has completed over 1000 projects, implemented for all sorts of businesses: from SMB companies to Fortune-500 IT giants. You could expect to get experience working with multitude business domains, industries, and technologies.
- Data Analytics is building Data Lakes, and Lake Houses with a variety of technologies, such as EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Aurora, Neptune, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, etc.
- ML/AI projects are based on scrupulous data analysis, hypothesis formulation, and rigid model quality checks using the latest packaged SageMaker or custom ML models and frameworks.
- We empower IoT companies with technologies like IoT Core, IoT SiteWise, LoRaWAN, and extensive data analytics.
Responsibilities:
- Assisting Team Lead in technological supervision of projects: code reviews, solving technological challenges, clarifying business requirements
- Assisting Team Lead, Pre-Sales Architect in LOE estimation and scope clarification for the prospective customers (participate in writing SOWs, as a minor contributor, Consulted)
- Framing the problem to maximize business impact
- Setting expectations for success
- Specifying and prioritizing projects from vague requirements
- Planning and managing the technological part of projects
- Striking a balance between trade-offs
- Clarifying business context of opportunities
- Operating in customers’ best interest
- Delivering knowledge confidently
- Taking responsibility for enterprise value
- Exhibiting positivity and tenacity to work through failures
- Being curious and collaborative in incident response
Required skills and experience
Responsibilities:
- Assisting in technological supervision of projects: code reviews, solving technological challenges, clarifying business requirements
- Assisting in LOE estimation and scope clarification for the prospective customer
- Framing the problem to maximize business impact
- Specifying and prioritizing projects from vague requirements
- Planning and managing the technological part of projects
- Clarifying business context of opportunities
Required skills and experience:
ClearScale expects a successful candidate to have most of the following qualifications and skills (not necessary all have to be presented):
- 1+ years of technological supervision experience (mentoring/supervising 1-2 Engineers) in the delivery
- 3+ years experience in writing analytical SQL queries
- 1+ years of hands-on experience with some of the AWS Data Analytics services (EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift etc.)
- 3+ years of Java/Scala or Python data-related development
- 1+ years of Hadoop or Spark
- English B2 or better (spoken and written)
Additionally, it would make us smile even more if you have:
- Experience in Pre-Sales work from the angle of technological estimates, scope clarifications
- Experience in orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Step Functions)
- Experience in streaming analytics solutions (Kinesis, Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming)
- Experience in CDC, Delta Lakes
- IaaC experience, such as AWS CDK, Terraform, Cloudformation
Benefits
We offer
# 1 Fair wage
- 100% Remote position
- High hourly rate in USD
- Full-time, 40 hours per week contract
- Payments every 2 weeks
- Annual Rate Review
# 2 Professional Development
- Work with innovative Silicon Valley companies and traditional American companies at the cutting edge of digital transformation
- We work with the newest technologies in AWS cloud and open-source tools like Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart, Slack etc
- We operate in an honest and competitive environment and we are one of the AWS's top 10 key partners.
- The team willing to share its experience
- Paid AWS certifications: we provide training material, paid time off and examination itself
- Horizontal and vertical career growth - We keep growing and people keep growing with us
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