Principle Data Architect

Principle Data Architect
Tel Aviv, Israel · Full-time
About The Position
Principal Architect - Data Platform

we are looking for a Principal Architect to oversee it’s data platform technical strategy.

A matching candidate would have the rare combination of a strong technical background, proven leadership experience and great mentorship skills.

So if:

You think, breathe and live data - big or small, fast or batch.
You take the lead when challenge arrives, and people follow.
You thrive being at the crossroads where technology, people and business meet.
You are able to bring order and processes into chaos.
You enjoy the delicate work of hands on software craftsmanship.
You have designed complex internet scale systems, shipped them to production, saw them fail in spectacular ways and was there to fix it.
Then you belong with us.

The job:

As a Principal Architect you would be a source of technical knowledge and experience, facilitating and mentoring great technical decisions. In your day to day you would work with engineering managers, peer architects and engineers. You will find and evaluate technical solutions, recommend and oversee complex refactoring efforts, deal with fixing technical debt as well as design for new strategic business needs.

The data platform group:

The data platform group is composed of several teams responsible for applying complex business logic to massive amounts of data; collecting, processing and modeling internet scale workloads. The group owns a distributed platform that runs over hundreds of compute and data nodes, using a wide variety of tools and frameworks.

Requirements
Delivered code to production, and owned a internet scale production grade SAAS system.
Experience across all software development life-cycle phases.
Hands on experience in data intensive systems.
At least 2 years experience in technical leadership roles.
Advantage:
First hand experience with big data or stream processing technologies.
Hands on experience in Java, Scala.
Experience in evaluating build / buy solutions.