Senior Data Solutions Architect

Fruition Group Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fruition Group Ireland in Dublin City Centre seeks a Senior Data Solutions Architect to lead hands-on architecture for enterprise-scale big data, streaming, and real-time integrations. This 6-month contract role focuses on Cloudera, Kafka, AWS, and distributed data platforms.

You will design end-to-end real-time data pipelines, set best practices for event streaming, and guide delivery across regulated enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years IT experience.
• 5+ years in Solution or Technical Architecture.
• Strong experience with Kafka or other event streaming technologies.
• Experience delivering large-scale data ingestion, transformation, and API-based solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise data and streaming platforms.
• Design solutions using Cloudera CDH/CDP, Kafka, Spark, HBase, Hive, Impala, NiFi, Flink, and AWS data services.
• Architect real-time data pipelines, event-driven integrations, APIs, and distributed data platforms.
• Define best practices for Kafka architecture, event streaming, scalability, resilience, and performance.
• Review technical designs, identify risks, and provide architecture leadership throughout delivery.
• Produce high-level solution designs and present to technical stakeholders and governance boards.

Skills

Cloudera CDH/CDP

Kafka

Spark

HBase

Hive

Impala

NiFi

Flink

AWS

Spring Boot

Spring Kafka

Python

PySpark

REST APIs

DevOps/CI/CD

Tools

Cloudera CDH/CDP

Kafka

Spark

HBase

Hive

Impala

NiFi

Flink

AWS

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Kafka

Python

PySpark

REST APIs

DevOps/CI/CD

Job description

My Dublin City Centre based client is recruiting for a Senior Data Solutions Architect with experience designing enterprise-scale big data, event streaming, and real-time integration solutions. This is a hands-on architecture role focused on Cloudera, Kafka, AWS, and distributed data platforms. This is initially a 6 month contract with a view to be extended after that.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise data and streaming platforms.
• Design solutions using Cloudera CDH/CDP, Kafka, Spark, HBase, Hive, Impala, NiFi, Flink, and AWS data services.
• Architect real-time data pipelines, event-driven integrations, APIs, and distributed data platforms.
• Define best practices for Kafka architecture, event streaming, scalability, resilience, and performance.
• Review technical designs, identify risks, and provide architecture leadership throughout delivery.
• Produce high-level solution designs and present to technical stakeholders and governance boards.
• 10+ years' IT experience, including 5+ years in Solution or Technical Architecture.
• Strong experience with Kafka or other event streaming technologies.
• Experience delivering large-scale data ingestion, transformation, and API-based solutions.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture, scalability, security, and resilience.

Technical Skills

• Cloudera CDH/CDP
• Spark / Spark Streaming
• HBase, Hive, Impala
• Java, Spring Boot / Spring Kafka
• Python / PySpark
• REST APIs
• Event-driven architecture, CDC, Data Lakes & ODS
• AWS cloud-native services.
• DevOps / CI/CD.
• Experience working within regulated enterprise environments.

Please note:

This role is not suited to candidates whose experience is primarily in BI, reporting, data analysis, data governance, or data modelling without hands-on solution architecture and delivery.