Principal Data Architect – Remote

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works essful applicants for this position must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and be fully vaccinated, or have a valid waiver, by date of hire. Proof of vaccination is required.

Role Description-

Arcadis is looking for Principal Data Architect to drive and execute Digital to the core of everything we do. We firmly believe in ‘Everything Digital, Digital Everything’. We are transforming, we are reimagining the industry and we are reimagining how communities and nations can help becoming more sustainable places to live for today and future generations.

As Leader of Data Platform and Engineering, you must be a hands-on engineering leader with broad and deep data skillset who can spearhead multiple concurrent data initiatives to meet business goals and improve existing data processing pipelines. As a leader, you challenge conventional thinking and work with stakeholders to identify and improve the status qcomfortable with open-source languages and experience developing data platforms and solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms. You are statistically minded and have built models, validated them, and back tested them. You have experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning. Ideal candidate may be located anywhere within India, United States or Europe.

Role Accountabilities-

• A force-multiplier for data engineering purpose, helping team in crafting a winning Data strategy, driving data roadmap, and translating those objectives into action
• A hands-on engineering leader with broad and deep data skillset who enjoys spearhead multiple concurrent data initiatives, build data processing pipelines.
• You have a deep passion for open-source languages and experience developing data platforms and solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
• You are statistically minded and have built models, validated them, and back tested them. You have experience with clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, time series, and deep learning
• Serve as the primary lead on program scoping, development and implementation related to Data ingestion, aggregation, availability, and processing to drive and enable additional insights from available data sets, working with Product/Data Science when appropriate.
• Find improvements and help keeping the data pipelines in efficient, resilient, and well-tuned state with the goal of reducing processing related infrastructure efforts and expenses, saving both time and money for the company.
• Be the steward of the data ecosystem getting buy-ins from all stakeholders for enhancements and cleanup/organizational improvements of the data throughout the company.
• Be the technical partner for non-data-engineering teams (product, data science, client analytics and the rest of engineering) with their data needs/requirements, actively participating in all phases, from inception of the idea to production release.
• Significant experience working with structured and unstructured data at scale and comfort with a variety of different stores (key-value, document, columnar, etc.) as well as traditional RDBMS and data warehouses.
• Research, design, test, and evaluate new technologies, platforms, and third-party products
• Work with technology teams to prototype and prove the viability of data platform solutions
• Ensure alignment of solutions with Enterprise Architecture principles and guidelines
• Manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources using a variety of tools and data analysis techniques

Basic Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience-

• Bachelor’s Degree plus 15 years of experience in data engineering, or Master’s Degree plus 12 years of exdata platforms, engineering and technologies
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with relational and non-relational databases
• Minimum of 5 year of experience managing people and/or team
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in open-source programming languages
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with machine learning
• Well versed with data offerings as part of Azure/AWS/GCP Paas services.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in ‘STEM’ field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) plus 5 years of experience in data analytics
• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing in Spark, Python, SQL, Java, or Scala, C/C++, Microsoft Technologies
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with data science Notebooks (Jupyter, Zeppelin, or RStudio)
• Minimum of 2 year of experience working with Public Cloud
• Experience in consulting, product and/or AEC industry

Why Become an Arcar/>Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth’s resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a posiy supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging-

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Rules-

Arcadis offers benefits for full time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage along with a 401K plan, STD and LTD, and Life Insurance as well as some additional optional benefits. Full time positions also come with annual PTO days and at certain levels a bonus program may apply. The Salary range for this role is $99,008 – $158,288 for Colorado based positions only. Other locations will vary in salary range.

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