Big Data Cloud Architect

The Advisory Board Company is a best practices firm that uses research, technology, and consulting to improve the performance of 5,500+ health care organizations and educational institutions. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices worldwide, we forge and find the best new ideas and proven practices from our network of thousands of leaders, then we customize and hardwire them into every level of member organizations, creating enduring value.

* Provide technical leadership to a team, ensuring that all delivered solutions and architecture adhere to industry best-practices for scalability, maintainability, usability, availability, extensibility, security, and portability * Develop strategic plans for cloud services, including but not limited to: transition strategies, bundling (multiple cloud offerings) strategies, mission/vision descriptions, and positioning strategies * Design and develop big data enterprise solutions for data ingestion and transformation on Amazon EMR with Spark * Improve processes within continuous integration and continuous delivery practices * Collaborate with QA on test planning and automation targeting performance and load testing * Create high-quality software through test driven development and peer reviews * Partner with product management and other stakeholders in an agile environment * Enhance team performance by sharing expertise in areas such as process, tools, and performance tuning * Work with geographically distributed teams, with ample opportunity to learn from and mentor teammates in a fast-paced environment * Design data pipelines in production based on continuous delivery practices * Partner with data scientists to develop segmentation models that will help predict customer behavior and preferences. * Responsible for delivering excellence in the design and build phases of marketing cloud implementations, CRM integrations, and an enterprise-wide analytics framework.

**Must Haves:** * Education: Bachelor's Degree in technical field OR equivalent work experience * 8+ years of relevant professional work experience with hands on implementation and technical architecture design * 6+ years of experience coding with one or more JVM-based languages (e.g. Java, Scala) * 4+ years of experience with SQL and enterprise RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle) * 4+ years of experience with test-driven development in an agile environment for a commercial product or solution * 4+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services or similar cloud computing platform * 2+ years of experience with big data implementation in the Hadoop platform * Experience with delivery and shipping of a software product through the complete lifecycle via enterprise or cloud-based services * Experience leading large product integrations and performance enhancements * Flexibility to work across a variety of software-related disciplines: solution design, unit testing, refactoring, and build/deployment automation * Hands-on experience with continuous delivery on the AWS platform including EC2, ELB, S3, CloudFormation, Lambda * Demonstrated experience designing and implementing big data solution on the Hadoop platform, specifically on Amazon EMR with Spark **Even Better:** * Working knowledge of AWS Data Pipeline, Athena, QuickSight, and Redshift * Experience with implementation of continuous integration, specifically with Gradle and Bamboo * Experience with the Salesforce development platform, CRM solutions, and retail marketing cloud solutions * Ability to design highly performant systems and troubleshoot complex performance and scalability issues in production * Prior experience in the health care domain, specifically with health care data modeling * Prior experience building ETL systems * Working experience leading teams to deliver high-quality software products * Experience analyzing large volumes of data with enterprise data analytics