(Only W2) Lead Cloudera Consultant (Solution Architect) - 100% Remote within US

Job Title : Lead Cloudera Consultant (Solution Architect)

Type : 6-month contract to start

Location : 100% Remote within US (Prefer Houston to go onsite occasionally or west coast if remote)

Job Summary :

We are seeking an experienced Lead Cloudera Consultant to provide architecture guidance, advisory services, and hands-on support for building secure, scalable, and decoupled data pipelines across non-production and production environments. This role includes training client teams on Cloudera platform best practices and ensuring successful delivery of data movement and curation solutions aligned with business KPIs.

Key Responsibilities :

• Architecture & Design : Design and implement secure, scalable, and decoupled data pipelines across on-premises and cloud Cloudera platforms.
• Provide architectural guidance for integrating message brokers (e.g., Kafka) and warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake Iceberg).
• Development Support : Assist client teams with backlog execution and development of data products
• Ensure end-to-end updates without negative impact on other data products.
• Training & Knowledge Transfer : Develop and deliver tailored training sessions and materials for technical leads, data engineers, and architects.
• Enable client teams to build, extend, and support pipelines independently.
• Performance & Optimization : Implement cost-performance trade-offs to meet KPIs (e.g., data flow within 5 minutes at target resource cost).
• Advise on cost optimization strategies during initial engagement phase.
• Integration & Automation : Configure CI / CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Implement automated testing and logging (Datadog) for performance and error tracking.
• Security & Compliance : Ensure secrets are managed securely using approved tools.
• Document and transition all data flows, logic, and components to sustaining teams.

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