Solutions Architect

4 weeks ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Simple Machines Full time

Simple Machines is looking to hire a talented Solutions Architect to join our amazing team. This is a full-time role to be based in Christchurch office.

Sound good so far?

**Requirements**:
**About You**

You will be the interface between product owners, managers, and implementation team to support the design and delivery of compelling market leading solutions. Data and software solutions delivery is a team sport.

You will play a critical role in that team by:

- Match innovative yet practical data solutions to our customers’ thorniest problems,
- building on a foundation of strong engineering and operational practices.
- Balance multiple factors in the delivery of solutions including: effectiveness, cost, reliability, risk, safety, stakeholder needs, and so on.
- Capturing and presenting back, through documentation, presentations, and proofs of
- concept, the essential requirements of a solution.
- Translating the essential requirements into a number of alternative design
- approaches, which may include options to build or buy solution components.
- Helping the client navigate the process of selecting the best solution and
- Elaborating on the chosen solution to a level that facilitates detailed project
- planning, technology selection, and documentation of key interfaces.
- Linking technology components to process, organisational, and change management
- dependencies to ensure success of the total solution.
- Thinking outside the box and staying focused on the essential business needs.

Essential skills:

- Knowledge of the key data and infrastructure services in each of the major cloud
- providers including the Google Cloud Platform, Amazon, and Azure.
- Knowledge of one or more programming languages.
- Experienced in data modelling and key data warehousing concepts including
- alternative database schemas (SQL and “NoSQL”), database normal forms,
- dimensional models, slowly changing dimensions, metadata management, Lambda and Kappa architectures, etc.
- At least a foundational knowledge of machine learning including ability to describe a basic classification algorithm and key components of machine learning operations.
- Knowledge of one or more architectural frameworks and containerisation strategies including Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of DevOps processes and event-driven architectures.

The experience you will have:

- Experience in a professional services role - delivering a solution to a third-party client with an agreed budget and schedule.
- Preferred additional experience in an enterprise, start-up, or sales engineering role.
- Experience in a team delivering a bespoke solution involving custom development or custom integration.
- Design and implementation of a strategic data platform that involved a change over the previous data architecture.
- Experience with “Big Data” platforms and technologies such as Hadoop, Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.
- Experience with implementing a large data platform in a cloud environment.
- Experience with a project involving advanced analytics such as a statistical or machine learning model.
- Experience in teams employing Agile and DevOps practices.

**Benefits**

**Working at Simple Machines**:
We’re looking for someone who’s as passionate as we are about building a world-class technology company specialising in engineering for data.

Just some of the benefits of working with Simple Machines include:

- Learning and development: We all love continually learning and have a generous budget for you to upskill, join conferences, get certified and qualified.
- Lunch is on us. Always We happily supply lunch at each of our office locations every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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