Title : Data Architect Location: Bay area preferred, then Austin, anywhere in the US Duration : 6 months (possible extension) IItems in bold are a must Data Architect Strong hands-on experience with at least 3 full life cycle implementations on Oracle SQL and PL/SQL (Or other leading RDBMS such as MySQL or SQL Server), data modeling, and design. Hands on experience in data warehouse/ Lake house design with different sets of business data and generating common unified reporting solution. Strong experience is data security, provisioning, performance tuning of data warehousing solutions. Solid understanding of data architecture, standards, and data governance in relational and non-relational databases Hands-on experience using one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, bash, etc Working knowledge of ETL/ELT/data pipeline development, using industry-standard tools such as Talend. Working knowledge of data lake house reference architectures and common data processing architectures (Lambda, Kappa) Basic experience/ knowledge on modern distributed technologies such as Spark SQL, Hadoop, Presto, Hive, Kafka, Cassandra, Redshift or other equivalent solutions Experience with Data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI is a plus. Excellent problem-solving skills and written/verbal communication skills with the ability to document and communicate technical information to IT Leadership, the business, developers, and support staff. Good to have - design and development experience in cloud-based Data Warehousing, Data Lake & Analytics Platforms like Azure, GCP, AWS and relevant Data storage/ analysis toolsets.