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Job Profile Description
As a Palantir Solution Architect (Manager) in Kainos, you’ll lead a multidisciplinary agile team to design and deliver contemporary data solutions. You will be a quality‑oriented pragmatist, balancing trade‑offs to deliver complex solutions successfully. You will be viewed as an authority on data technology solutions, providing strong technical and thought leadership.
Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Successfully implementing functional and non‑functional designs
- Working closely with Ops and Infrastructure architects to productionise robust, resilient, and maintainable data solutions
- Collaborating with customer architects to agree on functional and non‑functional designs, advising, questioning, informing, and helping customers make sound solution‑design outcomes
- Working with peers to develop policy and standards, share knowledge and mentor those around you
- Managing and estimating timelines underpinning solution delivery
- Owning technical solution design as part of a pre‑sales process
- Making a significant contribution to the data community and wider data capability
- Managing, coaching and developing a small number of staff, focusing on performance management and career development, and providing direction for the team as you solve problems together
Minimum (essential) Requirements
- Experience of leading multiple teams as the data solution architect, owning a system of systems
- Experience in designing, building and productionising modern data-intensive applications, including orchestration and operation
- Broad knowledge of the full spectrum of data technologies (in‑gestion, transformation, storage, presentation, consumption), capable of integrating these into successful solutions
- Strategic design‑thinking experience, including problem conceptualisation, approach and roadmap definition, architecture realisation and risk management
- Comfortable with traditional and contemporary data warehousing concepts
- Experience of deploying data‑processing platforms from vendors such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks
- Comfortable in one or more of Java, Scala, or Python, with the ability to be hands‑on when required
- Demonstrated ability to manage, coach and develop team members and the wider community
Desirable
- Knowledge of wider data‑architecture concepts, e.g., Master Data Management, Masking, Data Governance, Provenance and Lineage
- Experience of technical evaluation and product selection
- Comfortable with data integration techniques such as messaging, queuing, change data capture or data virtualisation
Embracing our differences
At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other characteristic that defines them. Every candidate deserves a level playing field.
Our talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out. We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.
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