Senior Cloudera Architect

Jimmy Technologies

. Own the end-to-end solution architecture for large-scale distributed data, streaming, and data integration solutions .

Posted 10/3/2026contractRemote • CzechiaSenior💰 €38 - €43 per hourWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in architecting large-scale distributed data solutions, with a strong focus on streaming data applications and integration technologies. Proven ability to provide architectural leadership and governance across complex enterprise environments while ensuring alignment with enterprise technology strategies.

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Solution ArchitectureKafka Event-StreamingCloudera CDH/CDPData Ingestion and TransformationArchitectural Leadership

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Hard Skills

Distributed Data ArchitectureReal-Time Data ProcessingData Lake ArchitectureJavaSpring BootREST ServicesNoSQL TechnologiesCloud ServicesDevOpsCI/CD

Soft Skills

Technical LeadershipMentoringStakeholder EngagementInfluencing Decision-MakingGovernance

Tools & Technologies

KafkaClouderaAWSSparkFlinkHiveImpalaHBaseCassandraObservability Tools

Industry Keywords

Data IntegrationDistributed SystemsEnterprise ArchitecturePerformanceScalability

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCassandraCloudDistributed SystemsHBaseJavaKafkaNoSQLSparkSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the end-to-end solution architecture for large-scale distributed data, streaming, and data integration solutions
Act as the lead architect for Data Solutions distributed data, integration and platforms
Provide architectural direction, governance, design assurance and technical leadership across initiatives
Shape target architecture and ensure alignment with enterprise technology strategy, engineering standards and long-term platform objectives
Lead solution architecture across the Enterprise Data Lake, Operational Datastore and associated data platform services within the Cloudera CDP environment on AWS
Design and document scalable distributed data and streaming solutions across Cloudera, Kafka, API, and cloud platforms
Define ingestion, processing, storage, and consumption patterns
Provide architectural oversight across solution delivery
Work with engineering teams to ensure solutions are deliverable, scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned to enterprise architecture principles
Review technical designs produced by engineering teams
Identify technical risks, dependencies, assumptions, non-functional requirements, and design trade-offs
Support delivery planning by breaking solutions into iterative delivery increments and sprint-level outcomes
Represent solution designs at architecture review boards and governance forums
Engage with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and enterprise architects
Develop and promote architectural patterns, engineering standards and best practices across the data platform ecosystem

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years’ overall IT experience, with significant experience in data platform, integration, or distributed systems delivery
Proven experience architecting streaming or real-time data applications using Kafka or equivalent event-streaming technologies
Experience with Kafka consumer architecture, including consumer groups, offsets, retries, dead-letter handling, ordering, partitioning, and scalability
Proven experience designing solutions on Cloudera CDH/CDP, or substantial experience with equivalent enterprise-scale distributed data platforms
Experience designing and delivering large-scale data ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption patterns
Strong understanding of batch and real-time data processing architectures
Experience working in complex enterprise environments with multiple systems, vendors, platforms, and governance processes
Strong understanding of non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, resilience, security, observability, and operational support
Experience providing architectural leadership across multiple workstreams, programs, or delivery teams
Experience mentoring architects, senior engineers or technical leads and influencing technical decision-making
Distributed data platforms and data lake architecture on Cloudera CDH/CDP or equivalent platforms
Event streaming and real-time integration technologies, including Kafka and related messaging patterns
Large-scale data processing and transformation frameworks such as Spark, Flink, Hive, Impala or equivalent technologies
Java, Spring Boot, and REST services
NoSQL and distributed data storage technologies including HBase, Cassandra, or equivalent platforms
Cloud services, preferably AWS
DevOps, CI/CD, observability, resilience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Long-term remote-first contract position
Contract through December 2026 with extension to 2027
Remote work in the EU