Big Data Technology Architect

Job description

Accenture is looking for Big Data Technology Architects to help transform leading organizations into digital businesses, revolutionize their operations, increase customer insight and making better decisions utilizing vast amount of data.

Accenture is the perfect place to lay the foundation for a career helping the world's leading companies drive strategic business advantage through the innovative use of technology. And for experienced technology professionals, Accenture's global client base, proven methodologies and extensive technology organization provide the ideal stage to take an established career to new heights.

Job description

You will be responsible for:

· Selling, assessing, defining, implementing and/or supporting world class information technology Big Data architectures for our clients.
· Be part of the leading group of Accenture Technology Architects with a deep technical background and willing to take an extra step forward to pioneer with future Big Data architectures.
· Propose innovative technology solutions within the constraints of large-scale enterprises, and take the lead in implementing and evaluating these solutions. Assist in refining and enhancing Big Data architectures and frameworks.
· Enable sales opportunities by working closely to the sale executives selling Big Data consulting work. Drive technical and architecture workshops.
· Innovation to support our clients on how to architect and deliver innovation based on the next generation of Big Data technologies and architectures
· Be a technical thought leader who helps shape both technical direction and process improvements across the Big Data landscape of a client. As technology champion, you are capable to clearly and confidently present subject matter expert visions on current and future Big Data architecture related topics.
· Supervise architecture design, infrastructure design, technology build and deployment activities on multiple platforms. Coordinate and work with clients and offshore teams.

Place in the organization

As Big Data Technology Architect, you will be part of Accenture's Modern Data Architecture group which is specialized to help clients with complex architecture integration challenges, in order to effectively digitalize their businesses by designing best-fit solutions and using optimal delivery methodologies. We are growing rapidly and we are looking for new innovative Big Data Technology Architects to strengthen our group.

Desired profile

Qualifications

·  Master´s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a similar field;
·  Minimum 2 years of experience in assessing , architecting, designing or implementing IT architectures and applications related to Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Map Reduce, HDFS, Hive, R, Cassandra
·  3-5 years of experience in doing Architectures for Business Intelligence/Analytics platforms/Enterprise Architecture
·  Strong drive to continuously develop yourself in the field of Big Data
·  Ability in putting together an architecture roadmap for large Analytics initiatives detailing out the development, execution and operations architecture.
·  Have experience in working directly with business users to gather and document technical requirements
·  Proficient in the use of modeling techniques including use case, scenario modeling, prototyping, benchmarking, and performance modeling in order to describe the problem space, to size the solution and to validate whether the proposed architecture addresses the business requirements
·  Experience with IT delivery life-cycle planning and management methodologies and tools

Preferred skills (at least 3 of the following skills):

·  Hands-on experience with the Hadoop stack (e.g. MapReduce, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Flume)
·  Hands-on experience with open source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP, Chef)
·  Hands-on experience with ETL tools (e.g. Informatica, Talend, Pentaho), BI tools and reporting software (e.g. Microstrategy, Cognos, Pentaho)
·  Hands-on experience with analytical tools, languages, or libraries (e.g. SAS, SPSS, R, Mahout, Rapid Miner)
·  Hands-on experience with "productionalizing" Hadoop applications (e.g. administration, configuration management, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning)
·  Experience with high-scale or distributed RDBMS (Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, Vertica)
·  Knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce) and considerations for scalable, distributed systems
·  Knowledge of NoSQL platforms (e.g. key-value stores, graph databases, RDF triple stores)
·  Hands-on experience in administration, configuration management, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning Hadoop applications

Professional Skills Requirements :

·  Self-starter, with a keen interest in technology and highly motivated towards success
·  Must be proactive, show initiative and desire to learn business subjects
·  Able to work independently and provide updates to management
·  Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities
·  Highly developed evaluation skills, the ability to assess the potential impact of emerging technologies and strong presentation skills
·  Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
·  Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment ;
·  Excellent oral and written communication skills in English;

We offer
A work environment with a focus on your personal development in the area of leading-edge technology. You work together with talented colleagues from all over the world on challenging projects for the highest ranked international businesses. Within Accenture, we offer our employees a lot of training and learning opportunities in the area of capability and personal development, including a Big Data Academy. You'll be attending training at international locations together with colleagues from various countries.

Moreover, you have the opportunity to contribute with your expertise to our Corporate Citizenship Program.

Accenture offers excellent employee benefits, including:

·  A permanent contract;
·  13th month and holiday pay which you can manage in a flexible benefits tool;
·  Appealing bonus program;
·  Good transport arrangement (e.g. lease car);
·  Pension scheme set up on your personal situation;
·  Laptop and smartphone;
·  Expense and internet allowance;
·  Discount on Accenture shares.

Interested?

Then we would be eager to get to know you. Apply directly online through the button ‘solliciteer online´ and send us your CV and motivation letter. For more information about this vacancy you can contact Laura Mooi via

An assessment may be part of the selection procedure.

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