We seek an experienced Senior Solution Architect professional with specialization and thought leadership skills in emerging data and analytics to join our Application Services group. As a seasoned Senior Solution Architect, the ideal candidate will be able to contribute to the conceptualization and realization of emerging and advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and traditional data and analytic solutions, serving a diverse range of clients and project across North America and abroad.

As the Senior Solution Architect Emerging Data and Analytics, you will be responsible for opportunity assessment, solution roadmap, design, risk management, and pricing of opportunities. You will have ownership over technical pre-sales support, solution development, integration and transition to operations undertakings. You will coordinate engineering and technical team activities either directly or in collaboration with program or transition management. You will be confidently able to communicate with and influence key customer decision makers such as IT Directors, Program Managers and Partners. You will exhibit visionary leadership to evangelize global data and analytics solutions and you will lead solution development teams. You will actively demonstrate leadership in North American sales pursuit opportunities, Center of Excellence services, and offering development by applying a broad understanding of technology and business solutions.

Applicants should have a successful track record of creating innovative data analytics and data governance solutions to satisfy use cases and business challenges across industry sectors. The solutions must demonstrate proficiency with cloud service provider platforms, open source technology platforms, and expertise with a variety of emerging data technologies such as artificial intelligence, decision intelligence, structured and unstructured analytics, streaming analytics, and augmented data management (including metadata and data governance). Experience with visualization and dashboard creation is valuable but is not sufficient to demonstrate the thought leadership required in this role.

You will demonstrate aptitude, pragmatism, self-initiative, and the ability to gain expertise on new technology and solutions with minimal training or overview. You will work under general direction within a clear framework of accountability. You will exercise personal responsibility and autonomy, plan your own work, and meet given objectives and processes. You will influence direction of teams and specialist peers internally. Creating and applying consistent standards, methods, and tools, you will demonstrate an analytical and systematic approach to problem-solving. You will communicate orally and in writing fluently and concisely and will effectively present complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences to enable collaboration between stakeholders.

The definition of success for this role is creating innovative data and analytics solutions that deliver high value to our clients and that exceed our clients expectations.

As our clients move slowly towards normalization of business operations, once deemed safe and acceptable to do so, Candidates may be required travel within North America on an as/when needed basis with occasional global travel.

Technical Competences

Must have:

• Extensive experience (10+ Yrs.) in designing and implementing end-to-end data and analytics solutions from ingestion, ETL, storage retrieval, integration, analysis, and presentation
• Demonstrated expertise creating and presenting solutions to customers in a pre-sales, technical sales support, and/or technical offering role within an solutions, consulting or IT services organization supporting external clients.
• Extensive experience defining and documenting data architecture, relational and non-relational data modeling (conceptual, logical, and physical) within varying business domains and scenarios
• Extensive experience with relational databases like Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server and with NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra
• Hands-on experience designing end-to-end data ETL pipelines and processes
• Experience with defining data security architecture and standards, encryption at rest, and transit
• Experience in the design and development of master data management and data governance solutions
• Experience in defining modern data architecture on public and hybrid clouds like Azure, AWS, OpenShift
• Experience with real-time streaming methodologies like pub-sub, queues
• Experience with big data technologies and frameworks like Hadoop, HDFS, Kafka, Spark, MLops
• Experience with analytics and business intelligence platforms that provide the ability to design self-service analytics, dashboards, and cubes
• Experience with solutions that include advanced analytics such as artificial intelligence, augmented data management, machine learning, and data science
• Technical proficiency in database languages like SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL
• Technical proficiency in object-oriented programming languages like C#, Java
• Technical proficiency in scripting languages like Python, JavaScript

Good to have:

• Experience with IoT solutions and integration solutions
• Experience in CI/CD DevOps for data analytics solutions.
• Awareness and familiarity with application transformation technologies as Kubernetes, Docker, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Experience in supervised and unsupervised learning models/algorithms.
• Experience in building solutions based on microservice / serverless architecture
• Experience in building web services using RESTful framework

Soft Skills:

• Developing consensus-based solutions with internal and customer architects
• Creating professional design documents and presenting the solution to stakeholders
• Ability to articulate pros & cons of design decisions, accept corrections anddirect the team to rapidly conclude the best possible solution
• Communicating orally, in writing, and in presentation to deliver a concise, thoughtful, and powerful message
• Initiates customer engagement and demonstrates thought leadership
• Maintaining and enforcing compliance with corporate and client enterprise and data security standards
• Proactively identifying process improvement opportunities, challenging conventional practices, and adopting new methods and best practices.
• Demonstrating leadership skills and the ability to interact and lead people in a matrixed organization tact and diplomacy are essential attributes
• Leading and working with on-shore and off-shore teams to achieve project goals and milestones
• Understanding of commercial and financial aspects of creating customer solutions
• Ability to work under pressure and demonstrably action orientated

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 10 years of data engineer and solution experience, ideally in a global environment.
• Minimum of 3 years of pre-sales or technical sales support experience in a consulting, solutions, IT services organization serving external clients.

Desired Skills:

Mobility and Conditions

(Travel, work environment, physical demands, certificates, licenses, etc.)

• Based in Canada or the United States
• Legally entitled to work in North America (US or Canada), with an ability and willingness to travel throughout both regions and globally as/when needed. (Once travel restrictions have been lifted and conditions are deemed suitable to do so).
• Language: Fluent in English (speaking / writing). French for Canada desirable.

Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication Technology Company and a leading provider of IT products and services including hardware, software, networking and business solutions to customers in more than 100 countries. We are known for our ability to harness the power of IT for our clients and to build innovative practices and solutions. At Fujitsu, you will find a dynamic work environment with multidisciplinary teams involved in stimulating projects. Fujitsu is where you can pursue your full career potential. We enable our employees to grow as individuals, mature as industry professionals and proudly succeed as key members of the Fujitsu team.

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