Analytics Architect

Job description / Role

Job Description

The Analytics Architect role is part of IBM Hybrid Cloud Client Services team. He/she collaborates with other involved IBM organizations to formalize the short-term and long-term Analytics and AI strategies for account growth enhancing the technical and analytic architecture of the solution. The Analytic Architect will act as a technical advisor to our customers. Building this level of relationship with our enterprise customer base is critical and requires the Architect to be able to operate and be credible from the C-Suite to the hands-on development teams in the customer project environments. It is critical therefore that the Analytic Architect is experienced in the full enterprise information life cycle as a practitioner who is sought after with the ability lead critical customer engagements in the field.

The Analytic Architect has both strategic and tactical responsibility for designing, developing and leading complex technical & business architectures within enterprise class customer environments in Saudi. This position supports sales and leads deployment of projects in both pre-sales and post sales while acting as an advisor to sales, services, and customers alike. The Analytics Architect possesses deep and broad technical skills across multiple IBM Analytics product lines such as Big Data, Hadoop/Open Source, DB2, Netezza, InfoSphere Server, Data Governance, Data Integration, SPSS, Watson Analytics, DSX, Cloud and Hybrid Cloud technologies. The Analytics Architect is a practitioner with years of experience at an enterprise level possessing a broad understanding enterprise architectures and systems from an infrastructure level to enterprise applications level.

Specific position requirements include:

- Work with the software team to define and review the proposed solution
- Work on RFP/Tender responses to build solution architecture and statement of work
- Conduct review of business requirements and source systems
- Work with customer to derive the solution characteristics and outlines
- Plan architecture of the proposed implementation
- Create the implementation topology for the solution
- Design and create data models and ETL frameworks
- Perform data analysis and profiling
- Creation of mapping documents and implementing DataStage solutions for large Data Warehouses.
- Testing of DataStage jobs
- Strong Communication and interpersonal skills.

Requirements

Key Skills Requirements:

- Engineering Graduate in Computer Science / Information Science or Equivalent with hands-on experience in DataStage or equivalent ETL tool
- Overall 7+ years of experience, with at least 5 years in IBM technologies
- An understanding of a variety of modeling and/or diagramming techniques, with the ability to create and read process flow and data flow diagrams and entity relationship models
- Experience with Data mapping and business analysis of source systems
- Extensive experience with relational databases, data warehouses and related technologies.
- Experience with writing SQL queries and stored procedures with relational databases
- Experience using data modeling tools (e.g., Erwin IBM Data Architect) is a plus.
- Experience with big data platforms (Hadoop) is required
- Experience with IBM metadata management and governance tools such as Information analyzer, Business Glossary, IGC is required
- Previous experience with end-to-end data warehouse implementations from solutioning, requirements gathering all the way to User acceptance testing and deployment to production
- Strong analytical and technical aptitude
- Ability to create detailed technical design specifications

The Analytics Architect must engage customer early together with IBM sales team. Being able to conduct quick discovery workshop by analyzing the customer needs and requirements to understand the business problem in terms of both the long- and short-term analytics problem. Once a complete understanding of the problem is achieved, it is up to the Architect to take a "holistic" view of potential solutions and, based on years of experience, pull together the right mix of tools and techniques to solve it.

With the problem definition completed, the Architect must comprise a solution by selecting and configuring software layers into a compatible, workable architecture. This architecture establishes the fundamental framework on which all other functions work. The scope of responsibilities also includes working with sales and services to develop complete end-to-end project estimation, development of SOW and Proposal content, project planning and design specification

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- Engineering Graduate in Computer Science / Information Science or Equivalent with hands-on experience in DataStage or equivalent ETL tool
- 7+ years of experience, with at least 5 years in IBM technologies
- An understanding of modeling and/or diagramming techniques, with the ability to create and read process flow and data flow diagrams and entity relationship models
- Experience with Data mapping and business analysis of source systems, relational databases, data warehouses, writing SQL queries and stored procedures with relational databases, data modeling tools (e.g.,Erwin IBM Data Architect), big data platforms (Hadoop), IBM metadata management and governance tools such as Information analyzer, Business Glossary, IGC
- Experience with end-to-end data warehouse implementations from solutioning, requirements gathering all the way to User acceptance testing and deployment to production
- Strong analytical and technical aptitude with ability to create detailed technical design specifications

EO Statement
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Preferred Education: Master's Degree Commissionable: No

Key Job Details

- Country: SA
- State: AR RIYAD
- City: RIYADH
- Category: Sales
- Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
- Position Type: Professional
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Contract Type: Regular
- Location: RIYADH, AR RIYAD SA

About the Company

For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region's technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

Reinvention is a keyword in the company's history and, today, IBM is much more than a "hardware, software, services" company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.