Solutions Architect – Data Hub with Airline Experience

Dubai, UAE

Ref: KP622-1810

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Do you have applied skills in modelling, design and developments OF big data solutions? If yes, we want to hear from you!

Our client is one of the Middle East’s well-established and large-scale IT operation and development program, developing IT solutions for their Airline and Airports as well as selling IT solutions and products to other airlines.

Requirements

The ideal candidate would possess the following experience and attributes:

Uses appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of systems architectures in a specific business or functional areas. Produces detailed component specifications and translates these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products. Develop fast and aligned IT architecture solutions that meet customer requirements. Ensure architecture is robust, appropriate and of high quality conforming to corporate IT standards and roadmaps.
Leads the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external, and internal customers. Takes full responsibility for the balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.
Within a business change programme, assists in the preparation of technical plans and cooperates with business assurance and project staff to ensure that appropriate technical resources are made available. Within a business change programme, manages the target design, policies and standards, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture and ensure consistency of design across projects within the programme.
Develop information, application and technology architectures for assigned projects with established Enterprise Architecture standards. Work closely with Enterprise Architects and Principal Architects in the development of technology advancements and adaptation of new technologies. Continuously watch industry trends, identify and evaluate technologies & tool that are relevant for our business. Showcase business value by executing Proof of Concepts by engaging relevant IT teams.
Establishes policy and strategy for the selection of systems architecture components, and co-ordinates design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency. ensures that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to. Effectively use architectural patterns and solution designs documented in the reference architectures. Promote reuse of solutions and services. Contribute to enterprise architecture repository.
Guide and Mentor the solution development by guiding and mentoring the team through the entire development process. Advising when technically challenging areas. Understand and contribute to all design needed for the solution. Provide expert consultancy and coaching on these to project teams.
Conduct deep-dive architecture reviews of critical production applications together with Software Engineering teams. Provide architecture recommendations to the short and long-term improvement of application.
Develop logical infrastructure solutions aligned with the technology standards.
Work closely with infrastructure teams to ensure that the physical infrastructure designed meets project requirements.
Work together with Senior Technical Engineers in the Software Engineering team to ensure design and implementation are in line with the proposed architecture definition. Work closely with performance testing team to ensure that final solution meets the agreed non-functional requirements.

The successful candidate will possess the following skill sets:

Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)
IT experience for 6 years.
Experience in modern Information system architectures and design including technical leadership
Applied skills in modelling, design and development of Big data solutions
Bridging the gap between Functional and Technical teams especially in an Agile development environment
Experience in architecting and maintaining technologies such as Hadoop.
Demonstrable experience of which at least two years should be at a supervisory level related to Information & Analytics architecture. Experience in large corporate and multi-cultural environments would be advantageous.
Enterprise level Big Data Platforms
Business Information Architectures
Information Systems Architecture, strategy & planning and standards
Emerging Big Data technologies
Track record of successful delivery of Hadoop implementations all the way to Production (not only Proof of Concept)
Strong understanding of distributed systems concerns
Strong hands-on knowledge of Big Data technologies, such as:
HDFS and related technologies (Avro, Parquet, Snappy)
Map Reduce and Yarn
Spark and Spark Streaming
Kafka, Flume, Sqoop
Hive, Pig, Impala
Oozie
Experience of working in Public Cloud environments (Azure, AWS)
Data and Information Management experience
Experience with following technologies is a bonus:
Search engines such as Elastic Search, Solr/Lucene
NoSQL database such as Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase
Cache Grids (Oracle Coherence, ActiveSpaces, Redis)
Data Science – Python, R, MLLib
Datameer / Trifacta / Paxata and similar tools
If you’re looking for the next step in your information security career, apply today!

Please note that due to the high volume of applications we receive we are unable to contact all applicants directly. If you haven’t heard from us within 14 days please consider your application to have been unsuccessful.

About the Company

Over 30 years of local industry experience.

New name, proven expertise In 2009, recruitment leaders Beresford Blake Thomas (BBT), Hill McGlynn and Ma Foi integrated under the Randstad brand to form Randstad Middle East.

Experience and local knowledge are essential commodities within the Middle East region, so it made perfect sense to combine 30 years recruitment experience in the Gulf, providing a larger, more streamlined service to our clients and candidates.

As well as having the largest geographical footprint of any recruiter, Randstad is the worlds largest specialist recruitment provider, employing over 28,000 members of staff and helping over 2.5 million people find work every year. With an enviable reputation worldwide, we have an established and respected presence in the Middle East, and are the preferred choice for specialist staffing solutions in more customary and emerging markets across the entire region.

Our Sectors: