Data Solutions Architect - Join our Talent Community!

Company Description

We are looking for Data Solutions Architect to join our Talent Community.

If you would like to be kept in the loop on our future openings, please apply to this ad so we can add you to the list.

About Merkle

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle’s expertise has earned recognition as a “Leader” by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit www.merkle.com. 

Job Description

• Provide thought leadership and drive architecture of Enterprise Analytics / BI and Data Science solutions to deliver scalable implementations using the latest cloud technologies in AWS/Azure and 3rd party BI platforms
• Translate business goals and use cases into technical solutions to deliver actionable insights for various business processes, especially in the area of sales, finance, e-commerce, manufacturing/logistics, banking or CRM. Become the technical SPoC for all stakeholders.
• Set architectural vision and direction across a matrix of teams. Propose a conceptual/logical design for various data components and large volumes of data integrations.
• Apply effective governance methods for long-term scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and solution elasticity in alignment with enterprise architecture, security and infrastructure guidelines and standards.
• Provide supervision and guidance to the implementation team (data engineers, data scientists, BI consultants, ..) to ensure the project is implemented as per business requirements
• Support pre-sales by proposing a technical solution and effort estimates
• Maintain an internal framework to ensure consistent & optimal delivery across projects.
• Ensure full DevOps / DataOps automation of continuous development/test/deployment processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a technology-related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, IT, etc.)
• 3+ years experience in design and build of data solutions, a combination of relevant areas:
• Large-scale Data Lake / Datawarehouse (DWH) solutions
• Big data pipelines / ETL / APIs (data ingestion, processing, transformation and activation) development, preferably in cloud-based tools/infrastructure
• Business Intelligence projects, using BI tools like PowerBI, Tableau, Qlick Sense, Keboola, Tibco Spotfire …
• Data Science (Machine Learning) oriented solutions
• Understanding data concepts and patterns (Data Lake, Master Data Management, data quality, lambda architectures, streaming processing)
• Having a good business acumen, especially in sales, finance, e-commerce, manufacturing/logistics, banking or CRM areas
• Proficient in architecture methodologies and tools like diagraming (draw.io, Sparks EA, Confluence) and standards (Archimate, TOGAF)
• Experience with full software development lifecycle (CI/CD), including development skills using programming languages like Python/Java/Scala/C++ and relational/NoSQL databases
• Strong analytical and complex problem-solving skills
• Strong technical leadership, mentorship and collaboration
• Strong project management and organizational skills

Preferred Skills

• Proven experience with Data Lake / Datalakehouse implementations in AWS or Azure, using MS Azure (DataBricks, Data Factory, Data Lake, Cosmos DB, Event Hub, PowerBI, ..) or AWS (Glue, EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift, Sagemaker, …) cloud services
• Understanding of Data Science (ML) concepts from both business and technical perspective
• Experience with ERP solutions like SAP, NetSuite
• Experience with Marketing, E-commerce and CRM solutions like Salesforce (Marketing Cloud, CDP, Commerce, CRM), Adobe (AEM, Analytics) or Google (GA, BigQuery)

Additional Information

Why should you work with us?

• We are cooperating with an all types and sizes of clients from all around the world which allows us to provide a very diverse portfolio of projects and technologies to choose from to our people.
• You will be part of a startup-minded branch of a company with a very strong and stable background of the Swiss/Germany headquarters.
• Your contributions will have a distinct impact on our clients.

And we offer even more:

⏰ Flexible working hours and home office

🎯 Fully covered certifications in Salesforce, Adobe, Microsoft, etc. 

🎓 Full access to Dentsu Academy, LinkedIn Learning, on-site learning sessions

🍹 Team events

⛺ Vacation

💻 Laptop + equipment