WHY EPAM?

EPAM Systems (NYSE: EPAM) is a leading and fast-growing global provider of Software Engineering, Design and Consulting services with over 37,000 professionals globally. EPAM occupies a unique position in the digital services industry. Part agency, part consultancy, part innovation lab, EPAM is dedicated to helping global enterprises thrive in the digital age. We innovate breakthrough strategies, experiences and products designed to reinvent the relationship between companies and their customers. We believe in testing and measuring, in continuous improvement, in the relentless pursuit of results.

WHY YOU?

You are curious, persistent, logical and with a growth mindset – a true techie at heart. You enjoy living by the code of your craft and delivering elegant solutions for complex problems. You love designing data systems and applications to support decision making. You are passionate for the future trends of data practice and dare to design and deliver unusual solutions for known or so far unknown challenges.

If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM as a Data Architect or any level above.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contributing on the front line to the success of our customer projects – this role is expected to be heavily client facing and will require advanced technical depth and experience, technical leadership, and multi-faceted communication skills
• Lead strategic planning, development and implementation of medium-to-large data platform solutions or a component of a larger solution, including full lifecycle of data starting from data acquisition and all way to the data visualization
• Lead on all stages of presales activities for such projects, owning the whole presale process from the Competency Center perspective when required.
• Manage the delivery of architectural POCs, where requiredWork directly and collaboratively with clients, external data providers, and other key stakeholders to ensure that the solution’s concept/vision is understood and agreed upon
• Actively participate in project review and planning sessions.
• As needed, lead the solution development, drive, and supervise end-to-end development cycle (SDLC) or participate in the projects start-up
• Be accountable for applications-related quality, performance, availability, scalability, security, and integrity, ensuring application usability, for instance, through a high-quality functional interface to applications.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with specific solution in known contexts
• Be accountable for ensuring architectural consistency of recommended technology and its integration with the client’s applications and infrastructure.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated the implemented solution in all relevant contexts of the project and wider program
• Manage the architectural knowledge transfer from the project development team to the post-go-live support team.
• Oversea or effect the creation of architectural case study for EPAM’s repository of reusable assets
• Drive strategic visioning activities for the practice and competency center.
• Develop reusable assets, development methods, processes, best practices to accelerate delivery
• Drive the program of evaluating the hardware and software platforms, benchmarking of alternative solution architectures, supervise a defined process for provision of structured, reusable results.
• Coordinate the direction of R&D activities by SA pool
• Keep pace with the innovative technologies and consider possibilities of creating relevant solution offerings.
• Coordinate architects in developmental direction choice
• Write broad topic and strategic white papers in the course of industry and technology research.
• Maintain high competency visibility by regular posting in internal newsletters, blogs as well as speaking at internal and external conferences and other events; create blueprints on customer request.
• Create technology road

REQUIREMENTS

• 8+ years of practical hands-on experience working in Enterprise Data Platforms technologies
• 2+ projects in data architect or technical team lead role with constant hands-on work during last 3 years
• Experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP) as well as with on prem data technologies
• Capable of leadership (influence management) and pragmatism
• Fluency in a range of scripting languages, operating systems, and software platforms including but not limited to Linux, Redis, Java, MySQL, Python, Pandas, AWS
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Spark, Kafka or other similar tools and technologies
• Experience in data architecture, data modeling, and database design
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases to retrieve structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data sets
• Knowledge of business domains (travel and hospitality, finance, retail, etc.)
• Track record of working directly with the customer (i.e. regularly facing customer directly) both remotely and on-site
• Presale activities with exposure to customers on billable accounts
• Demonstrated experience in solution cost estimation (including tools, tasks, complexity, labor, and time) at coarse grain and fine grain levels, with supporting material evidence
• Experience in mentoring and coaching
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills in English

WE OFFER

• Personal development program that will allow you to be valued for your strengths
• Wide range of professional trainings and workshops
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Attractive salary, additional health and dental insurance as well as other social benefits
• Broad projects variety and possible mobility between projects over the time
• Experience exchange with colleagues around the world
• Work-life balance and flexible schedule, team buildings and sport opportunities
• Modern office in the Infinity Tower business center

If you are interested in this role please send your CV in English.

All applications will be treated as strictly confidentialOnly short-listed applicants will be contacted

GREAT! WHAT’S NEXT?

Send us your up-to-date CV or LinkedIn profile, representing your skills and past projects’ achievements

We’ll get in touch with you and help you ensure you’ve identified the most suitable role we have for you based on your strengths and passion

We’ll invite you for follow up technical conversations with your potential future colleagues and/or project, which can be done face to face in a calm meeting room at our office or via video conferencing call from your cozy place

At the end we will align how we can best proceed further in a mutual agreement

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