Solutions Architect - Data Platforms - Christchurch
Simple Machines, New Zealand

Simple Machines’ mission is to ensure our clients get the most out of their data by designing and building modern data platforms, engineering data powered software applications and products, and enabling engineering and data driven business focussed use-cases. We need you to help us design and deliver a fantastic program of data focussed engineering projects for our globally distributed client base.

Simple Machines is looking to hire a talented Solutions Architect to join our amazing team. This is a full-time role to be based in Christchurch office.

Sound good so far?

Requirements

About You

You will be the interface between product owners, managers, and implementation team to support the design and delivery of compelling market leading solutions. Data and software solutions delivery is a team sport.

• Match innovative yet practical data solutions to our customers’ thorniest problems,
• building on a foundation of strong engineering and operational practices.
• Balance multiple factors in the delivery of solutions including: effectiveness, cost, reliability, risk, safety, stakeholder needs, and so on.
• Capturing and presenting back, through documentation, presentations, and proofs of
• concept, the essential requirements of a solution.
• Translating the essential requirements into a number of alternative design
• approaches, which may include options to build or buy solution components.
• Helping the client navigate the process of selecting the best solution and
• Elaborating on the chosen solution to a level that facilitates detailed project
• planning, technology selection, and documentation of key interfaces.
• Linking technology components to process, organisational, and change management
• dependencies to ensure success of the total solution.
• Thinking outside the box and staying focused on the essential business needs.

• Knowledge of the key data and infrastructure services in each of the major cloud
• providers including the Google Cloud Platform, Amazon, and Azure.
• Knowledge of one or more programming languages.
• Experienced in data modelling and key data warehousing concepts including
• alternative database schemas (SQL and NoSQL), database normal forms,
• dimensional models, slowly changing dimensions, metadata management, Lambda and Kappa architectures, etc.
• At least a foundational knowledge of machine learning including ability to describe a basic classification algorithm and key components of machine learning operations.
• Knowledge of one or more architectural frameworks and containerisation strategies including Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of DevOps processes and event-driven architectures.

• Experience in a professional services role - delivering a solution to a third-party client with an agreed budget and schedule.
• Preferred additional experience in an enterprise, start-up, or sales engineering role.
• Experience in a team delivering a bespoke solution involving custom development or custom integration.
• Design and implementation of a strategic data platform that involved a change over the previous data architecture.
• Experience with Big Data platforms and technologies such as Hadoop, Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.
• Experience with implementing a large data platform in a cloud environment.
• Experience with a project involving advanced analytics such as a statistical or machine learning model.
• Experience in teams employing Agile and DevOps practices.

Benefits

We’re looking for someone who’s as passionate as we are about building a world-class technology company specialising in engineering for data.

Just some of the benefits of working with Simple Machines include:

• Generous parental leave: Three months’ fully paid primary carer leave and one month fully paid secondary carer leave, subject to a minimum 12 month tenure.
• Learning and development: We all love continually learning and have a generous budget for you to upskill, join conferences, get certified and qualified.
• Lunch is on us. Always! We happily supply lunch at each of our office locations every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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