Senior Solutions Architect

Fruition Group; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 148,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Fruition Group is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect (Big Data & Streaming) in Dublin on a daily rate contract with a hybrid working model. The role leads design and delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms using Cloudera, Kafka, Spark, and AWS, collaborating with engineering teams from design through delivery.

You will own end-to-end architecture for real-time data pipelines, ensuring scalability, resilience, and adherence to enterprise standards in a hands-on leadership capacity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years IT experience, including 5+ years in Solution Architecture.
• Proven experience designing enterprise big data and streaming solutions.
• Strong experience with Cloudera CDP/CDH, Kafka, and distributed data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for big data and streaming platforms.
• Design scalable solutions across Cloudera CDP/CDH, Kafka, Spark, HBase, NiFi, Flink, Hive, and AWS.
• Architect real-time data pipelines, event-driven integration, APIs, and distributed data platforms.
• Produce high‑level designs and present solutions to architecture governance.
• Provide technical leadership, review designs, and ensure solutions meet enterprise standards.

Skills

Big Data Architecture

Streaming Platforms

Cloudera CDP/CDH

Kafka

Spark

AWS

REST APIs

Python/PySpark

Java

Airflow

HBase/NiFi/Flink

Hive/Impala

Data Platform Design

Real-time Integration

Tools

Cloudera AWS Kafka Data Architecture API Python TPBN1_IJ

Job description

Job Description

My Dublin based client is recruiting for a Senior Solutions Architect (Big Data & Streaming Platforms) this is a daily rate contract working on a hybrid model. We're looking for a Senior Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale big data, streaming, and real-time integration solutions. This is a hands‑on architecture role focused on designing scalable, resilient data platforms using Cloudera, Kafka, Spark, and AWS, working closely with engineering teams from design through delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for big data and streaming platforms.
• Design scalable solutions across Cloudera CDP/CDH, Kafka, Spark, HBase, NiFi, Flink, Hive, and AWS.
• Architect real-time data pipelines, event-driven integration, APIs, and distributed data platforms.
• Produce high‑level designs and present solutions to architecture governance.
• Provide technical leadership, review designs, and ensure solutions meet enterprise standards.

Essential Experience

• 10+ years' IT experience, including 5+ years in Solution Architecture.
• Proven experience designing enterprise big data and streaming solutions.
• Strong experience with Cloudera CDP/CDH, Kafka, and distributed data platforms.
• Hands‑on knowledge of several of: Spark, HBase, NiFi, Flink, Hive, Impala, Spring Boot, Java, Python/PySpark, Airflow, REST APIs, and AWS.
• Strong understanding of real‑time/event‑driven architectures, scalability, resilience, and cloud‑based data platforms.

Desirable

• Financial Services or Banking.
• AWS cloud‑native data services.
• DevOps/CI-CD and architecture governance experience.

Skills

• Solution Architecture Cloudera AWS Kafka Data Architecture API Python TPBN1_IJ