Cloud Architect
United States

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At Mohawk Industries, we're committed to more - more customer solutions, more process improvements, more sustainable manufacturing and more opportunities for our team.

As a Fortune 500, global flooring leader with some of the best-known brands in the industry, Mohawk is a great place to start or develop your career with an emphasis on more of what's important to you. Whether you want to lead more, innovate more, learn more or create more, you can find your more with Mohawk.

What we need:

The Cloud Data Architect will be responsible for delivery of BI solutions within Flooring North America Data & Analytics team. The candidate should have a broad knowledge of various analytics concepts to develop reports based on new and existing data sources. He or She should be able to accurately anticipate organizational impact of their work and understand the procedures and expected system performance associated. He or She will seek ways to collaborate with other IT colleagues to facilitate systems integrations and report creation. The candidate also needs to have hands-on experience with Microsoft Cloud data platform services like Azure data factory, Azure databricks, Azure datalake storage, Power BI, Microsoft fabric and provide support to the business community for all BI related applications.

What you'll do:

• Served as Cloud Data Architect for implementing Azure Cloud Data platform and services.
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Databricks
  • Azure Databricks Unity Catalog
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Spark Engine
  • Power BI/ Microsoft Fabric
  • Microsoft Purview
  • DBT
  • Azure infrastructure

• Strong experience in extracting, transformation, and landing data from various sources into data lakes, data warehouses and data marts using ETL tools such as Azure data factory and Custom Scripts.
• Implement and enhance the automated release process by which Azure DevOps (ADO) offering software flows from the developers to the customers. Define next generation CI/CD processes and support test automation framework in the Microsoft Cloud as part of the build engineering team.
• Strong experience in working with data transformation tool DBT (Data Build Tool) on top of Azure Databricks.
• Experience in developing spark applications using Spark-SQL in databricks for data extraction, transformation, and aggregation from multiple file format for analyzing and transforming the data to uncover insights into the customer usage pattern.
• Good understanding of Spark Architecture including spark Core, spark SQL, Data frame, Spark Streaming, driver Node, worker node, stages, executors, and tasks.
• Deploying Databricks Notebooks using programming languages spark framework.
• Perform problem assessment, resolution, and documentation in existing ETL packages, mapping, and workflows in production of Azure Data Factory, Azure Function Apps and Logic Apps.
• Implementing Cloud data solution utilizing on-prem and cloud solutions. Extensive experience with Microsoft ecosystem such as: Power BI service, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL IAAS/PAAS/SAAS etc.
• Load delta records from source to target utilizing CDC on type 1, type 2 and type 3 slowly changing dimension.
• Understands business requirements and translates into technical solutions, and data mappings.
• Lead data migration and mapping sessions with business and functional teams
• Gather requirements to define data definitions, transformation logic, logical / physical data model designs and data / process flow designs.
• Translate client business requirements and convert into business rules needed for cleansing, enrichment, translation, transformation, preload, and post load validation.
• Documents solutions and facilitates transition to support team.

• Monitors and troubleshoots performance & data quality. Analyze performance bottlenecks (SQL Plans) and provide optimization techniques in Microsoft Azure Data platform and Azure databricks.
• Tests data and models and documents test results.
• Estimates backlog items and accountable to development work assigned.
• Develops root cause analysis to summarize and provide recommendations on the resolution of issues permanently.
• Communicates development progress to IT team and business users as needed.
• Updates assigned tickets and change requests with status weekly.

What you have:

• Experience in configuring and managing Azure Virtual networks (Vnets), Hub and spoke network architecture, subnets and network security groups.
• Experience in Azure cloud resource management e.g. create, configure, and manage Azure resources (e.g. virtual machines, storage accounts, networks).
• Experience in monitoring azure resources, identify issues and troubleshooting problems. Optimize azure resource usage and costs.
• Experience in security and compliance. Implementation and monitoring of security measure (e.g. firewalls, access control, encryption).
• Experience in automating tasks using Azure CLI, Power Shell, and Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
• Experience in implementing Azure cloud backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts, benefits, and challenges.
• Education: A bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution in a technical discipline (computer science, engineering, information systems)
• Experience: 5+ years' experience in data extraction from multiple sources and building datalakehouse solution in Microsoft platform using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks and DBT as data transformation tool. Work experience with SAP ERP systems will be a plus.
• Experience: 5+ years' experience in building data pipelines using Azure Data factory or equivalent technology.
• Experience: 5+ years' experience in working with repositories like Azure DevOps, Git Hub or Bitbucket and developing CI/CD data pipelines.
• Experience: 5+ years' experience in deploying, maintaining, provisioning the infrastructure of Microsoft Azure Services like Azure DevOps,Azure databricks and Azure Data factory.
• Experience: 2+ years' experience in working with data governance tools like Microsoft Purview and Azure databricks unity catalog.
• Experience: 5+ years' experience in working with any of the data visualization tools like Power BI , tableau and SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Experience: 5+ years' experience developing Enterprise Datawarehouse/BI Solution on Cloud platform like Azure, AWS or GCP. (Experience in Azure cloud platform is preferred).
• Experience: 2+ years' experience in managing cloud infrastructure; like resource management, security , compliance and resource cost optimization. (Experience in Azure cloud platform is preferred).
• Experience: 5+ years' experience in data modeling (Star schema and 3rd Normal form) and hands-on experience in ERWin and other modeling tools
• Knowledge of Real time data streaming architecture like Kafka etc.

• Knowledge of data integration concepts with any of the following domains: Finance, Sales and Orders, Marketing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Logistics, Inventory, HR, and/or IT.
• Understanding of big data, analytics products, data visualizations, process automations, and statistics
• Strong preference for 1+ years' experience working on an agile team.

What you're good at:

• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight, be proactive and resourceful (startup mentality)
• Superior interpersonal, written, presentation, and communication skills
• Excellent oral, written, presentation and interpersonal communications skills; ability to effectively exercise tact, discretion, judgment, and diplomacy when interacting and/or negotiating with internal and external customers.
• Ability to present and explain technical information in a way that establishes rapport persuades others, and gains understanding
• Ability and willingness to accept responsibility, willingness to challenge established practices and draw relevant conclusions, including the persistence and willingness to take calculated risk, to stimulate, market and sell new ideas within the organization.
• Ability to work effectively in a diverse work group, to achieve results through team efforts, and the desire and ability to motivate, persuade and direct the activities of others.
• Ability to manage/implement projects and contributes to concept development, and ability to identify, analyze and resolve business issues through solution-oriented projects
• Ability to perform in a high-pressure environment and/or crisis and render good decisions to resolve the problems, maintain safety and ensure adherence to Corporate Code of Conduct.
• Bases decisions on fact rather than emotion; analyzes problems creatively and skillfully; uses logic to reach solutions.
• A diligent attention to detail and strong technical intuition.
• Push the boundaries of technology to drive increasingly higher levels of engagement and value.
• May have direct and/or indirect reports, will lead project teams.

Mohawk Industries is a leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. Mohawk's vertically integrated manufacturing and distribution processes provide competitive advantages in the production of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring. Our industry-leading innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate our brands in the marketplace and satisfy all remodeling and new construction requirements. Our brands are among the most recognized in the industry and include American Olean, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Marazzi, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, and Quick-Step. During the past decade, Mohawk has transformed its business from an American carpet manufacturer into the world's largest flooring company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran committed to an inclusive workplace and a proud Drugs Don't Work participant.

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