Presales Solutions Architect

Sigmoid; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sigmoid is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to lead technical engagements in the USA for Fortune 1000 clients. You will be the primary contact with leadership teams and guide a small offshore team from the USA, managing project activities at the client site.

You will lead a team to build a scalable big data platform for collecting, storing, modeling, and analyzing massive data sets from multiple channels, while ensuring alignment with client initiatives and enterprise architecture

Qualifications

• 10–15 years track record in relevant work experience
• Computer Science or related technical discipline is required
• Dynamic leader who has directly managed teams in fast paced environments
• Experience in Architecture and delivery of Enterprise scale applications

Responsibilities

• Align Sigmoid with key client initiatives
• Interface daily with customers across Fortune 500 companies to understand strategic requirements
• Connect with CIO, VP and Director level clients
• Build a delivery plan with domain experts and stay on track
• Design, develop and evolve scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components
• Build team and manage it day to day; hiring and training as needed
• Lead integration onsite with client technical teams
• Lead technical conversations and steer offshore team activities

Skills

Leadership

Client engagement

Team management

Big Data

Distributed systems

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Hadoop

AWS

GCS

Spark

Job description

Sigmoid unlocks business value for Fortune 1000 companies through expert data engineering, data science, and AI consulting. We solve complex challenges for leaders in CPG, Retail, BFSI, and Life Sciences. With 10+ delivery centers in the USA, Canada, UK, Europe, Singapore, and India, we deliver cutting-edge data modernization and generative AI solutions. Join us to shape the future of data-driven innovation!

Why Sigmoid?

• Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Companies (4 years running)
• Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (4 years running)
• Top Employer: AIM’s 50 Best Firms for Data Scientists
• Recently named British Data Awards Finalist & more accolades on the way!

Accelerate your career with a fast-growing, innovative company. and be part of our award-winning team!

Job Description:

The Solutions Architect will lead technical engagements in the USA for fortune 1000 customers. This person will be the immediate point of contact to talk to leadership teams at the client side. Interacts and Guides a small offshore team (5-10) from USA, manages project activities at client location.

As a Solutions Architect, you will be leading a team to build a highly-scalable and extensible big data platform that provides the foundation for collecting, storing, modeling, and analyzing massive data sets from multiple channels.

Responsibilities:

Align Sigmoid with key Client initiatives

Interface daily with customers across leading Fortune 500 companies to understand strategic requirements

Connect with CIO, VP and Director level clients on a regular basis.

Ability to understand business requirements and tie them to technology solutions

Build a delivery plan with domain experts and stay on track

Design, develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components

Excellent experience in Application development and support, integration development and data management.

Build team and manage it day to day basis

Play the key role of hiring manager to build the future of Sigmoid.

Guiding developers in day to day design and coding tasks, stepping in to code if needed.

Define your team structure, Hire and train your team as needed

Stay up-to-date on the latest technology to ensure the greatest ROI for customer & Sigmoid

Hands on coder with good understanding on enterprise level code

Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems

Experience in defining technical requirements, data extraction, data transformation, automating jobs, productionizing jobs, and exploring new big data technologies within a Parallel Processing environment

Must be a strategic thinker with the ability to think unconventional / out of box.

Analytical and data driven orientation.

Raw intellect, talent and energy are critical.

Entrepreneurial and Agile : understands the demands of a private, high growth company.

Ability to be both a leader and hands on “doer.”

Facilitate in Technical Aspects

Help Technical architects understand clients business constraints while drawing out

Build a business case around highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components designed by technical architects

Lead integration effort onsite with the client technical teams

Understand client acceptance criteria and emulate that for offshore technical teams

Receive and monitor technical deliverables from the offshore team and present to client teams

Qualifications:

10-15 years track record of relevant work experience and a Computer Science or related

technical discipline is required

Dynamic leader who has directly managed team of highly competent developers in fast paced

work environment

Experience in Architecture and delivery of Enterprise scale applications.

Preferred Qualification:

Experience in agile methodology

Development and support experience in Big Data domain

Architecting, developing, implementing and maintaining Big Data solutions

Experience with database modeling and development, data mining and warehousing.

Experience with Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, MapReduce, Oozie, Hive, Impala, Spark, Kerberos,

Technical knowledge in AWS/GCS Stack. Vertica, Snowflake, Druid a plus.

Experience with tech stack involving S3, Lambda, Step Functions, sns, DynamoDb, AWS Glue,