Presales Solution Architect - Data Management

Hitachi Vantara; City Of London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data solutions provider in the UK seeks a seasoned Solution Architect with over 10 years of experience in DataOps, including data management and analytics. The role requires consulting with clients to overcome their data challenges, conducting workshops, and designing technical architectures. Ideal candidates will have a deep understanding of ETL frameworks and BI tools. The position offers flexible working arrangements and values diverse perspectives, fostering innovation and collaboration.

Benefits

Industry-leading benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Inclusive corporate culture

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture within DataOps.
• Strong knowledge of modern data management practices.
• Experience with ETL, governance, and data quality frameworks.
• Familiarity with BI applications like Tableau and PowerBI.
• Understanding of NoSQL data engines and container management.
• Experience in technical sales and design thinking.

Responsibilities

• Advise on data challenges and customer needs.
• Conduct solution workshops and demos.
• Lead technical design sessions.
• Draft and design technical reference architectures.
• Consult with strategic teams and industry trends.

Skills

Solution architecture expertise

Data management practices

ETL/data integration knowledge

BI and reporting applications knowledge

Structured data/SQL engines

NoSQL data engines

Container deployment and management

Technical sales experience

Solutioning and design thinking

Tools

Pentaho

Talend

Informatica

SSIS/ADF

Apache Airflow

Postgres

MongoDB

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Our Company

We are team Hitachi Pentaho, the innovative minds behind a suite of sophisticated software that accelerates data fitness within organizations to win with gen-AI.

Part of Hitachi Group, Pentaho provides mission critical success for the world’s data-fit companies. We’re people-centric, data-fluent and here to power good. We unlock data’s full potential so that together, we can take theme park fans on magical rides, conserve natural resources, and save lives. This is a world of dynamic data migration, trusted data discovery, reliable privacy and compliance, and unified data integration. We ensure companies are data-fit because data is mission critical. We do it all on a global scale. We do it through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to power a data workhorse, like Pentaho, trusted by 73% of Fortune 100 companies. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The Role

• Domain experience in verticals/industries, e.g. financial services, healthcare etc
• Drive revenue and progress the transaction as a technical advisor, technical consultant, solution architect to the transaction and to the customer
• Conduct solution sessions/workshops and demos with strategic accounts
• Consulting with prospective customers on their data challenges, objectives and required capabilities to meet the need
• Drafting, designing & developing technical reference architectures for prospective customers and use cases: data migration, cataloging, and data quality
• Leading technical design sessions, providing detailed product architecture overviews and determining the customer's design, integration, and development
• Consult with strategic account team
• Consult with Product Management and software leadership about current industry trends and technology needs

What you bring (Qualifications)

• 10+ Years Solution architecture expertise in DataOps (data management, analytics, data governance) use cases, technologies, and solutions
• Experience working with modern data management practices (e.g. ETL, governance, stewardship, master data management, data catalog, data lineage, data warehousing, data modelling, data lake, data vault, data mesh, analytics, dashboarding & reporting)
• Experience working with ETL/data integration/data catalog/data governance and data quality frameworks (e.g., Pentaho, Talend, Informatica, SSIS/ADF, Apache Airflow)
• Knowledge of BI and reporting applications (OBIEE, Business Objects, Cognos, Tableau, Qlik, MicroStrategy, Looker, Domo, PowerBI)
• Structured data/SQL engines (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, Redshift)
• Knowledge of unstructured data indexing and NoSQL data engines (e.g. MongoDB, ArangoDB, SOLR, Cassandra, Spark)
• Container deployment and management (e.g., Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes)
• Technical sales and revenue process experience
• Experience w/ design thinking and solutioning
• Identify emerging DataOps and AI challenges and solutions required to overccome
• Guide in the application of enterprise data and metadata management technologies

About us

We’re a global, 300-strong, tight-knit team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.