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Data Architect

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Canada
Mid level
Canada
Mid level
Design and implement Data Lakehouse solutions, optimize ETL pipelines, ensure data governance, and support real-time data processing for analytics.
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Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm.  Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity.  We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Key Responsibilities

  • Real-time implementations of the Data Lakehouse solution.
  • Data Modelling and Data Architecting solutions.
  • Design, implement, and maintain Data Lakehouse solutions, integrating structured and unstructured data sources.
  • Develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using tools like Apache Iceberg, Trino, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Databricks, or Snowflake.
  • Optimize data storage formats and query performance across large datasets.
  • Implement security and compliance best practices in data management (role-based access control, data masking, etc.), and regulation compliance like CCPA, CASL
  • Build and Optimize a distributed search system using Trino to enable fast, SQL based querying across large-scale, heterogeneous datasets.
  • Leverage Apache Iceberg for table format management, ensuring efficient data partitioning, versioning and schema evolution.
  • Implement indexing strategies and query optimization techniques to enhance search performance and reliability.
  • Architect a unified data Lakehouse solution that combines the flexibility of data lake with the structure of a data warehouse.
  • Enable real-time and batch processing capabilities for analytics, machine learning, and reporting use cases
  • Ensure data consistency, ACID compliance, and scalability using Iceberg’s transactional capabilities.
  • Establish data governance frameworks, including metadata management, data lineage, and access control policies.
  • Monitor and tune the performance of Trino queries and Iceberg-based storage systems to ensure low latency and high throughput.
  • Collaborate with cloud and DevOps teams to support data infrastructure automation and monitoring.

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • Real-time implementation knowledge of the deployment and creation of a Data Lakehouse.
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Iceberg, Trino, Databricks, Delta Lake, or Snowflake.
  • Proficiency in Apache Spark, Python/Scala, and SQL
  • Strong working experience in data modelling, data partitioning, and performance tuning.
  • Familiarity with data governance, data lineage, and metadata management tools.
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
  • Work with structured and semi-structured data stored in object storage systems like S3, GCS.
  • Experience with Apache Iceberg, SQL, and Python.
  • Familiarity with data orchestration tools like Apache Airflow.
  • Experience with real-time data processing frameworks (e.g. Kafka, Artimis, Flink)
  • Knowledge of Machine learning pipelines and MLOps integrations with data lakehouses.
  • Must be eligible for up to a Top Secret Security Clearance.

Good to Have:

  • Certifications in Cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Certified Data Analytics, or Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer).

Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Top Skills

Apache Airflow
Apache Iceberg
Spark
Databricks
Delta Lake
Flink
Kafka
Python
Scala
Snowflake
SQL
Trino

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