Senior Data Architect

Join the Interactive Brokers Team!

Interactive Brokers Group has been consistently at the forefront of trading innovation, starting with the invention of the first floor-based handheld computer in 1983 and we pride ourselves on being primarily a technology company. We continue to challenge the status quo and push boundaries to offer the best trading platform with the most sophisticated features all for the lowest cost to our customers. Software development is the lifeblood of our firm, and it shows in our stellar brokerage platform. We offer award-winning desktop, mobile and web applications which provide our clients with the tools they need to be successful. Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR); is rated #1 - Best Online Brokers 4 years in a row by Barron’s , Best Online Brokers - Barron’s Award (read more).

As Sr. Data Architect – Team Lead, we are looking for someone to work with our enterprise architect to develop a program, run as process owner, and build / configure acquire tooling to support the program.

Requirements and Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related degree.
• 7+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with public clouds (AWS required)
• 5+ years of experience of Data Lake platform implementation
• 3+ years of IT management experience
• Experience building and leading engineering teams
• Experience in designing, building, and running enterprise distributed systems, real-time ETL, data pipelines
• Experience with AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift
• Extensive experience working with RDBMS, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka
• Experience with programming languages such as Java and Python
• Design solutions with performance, maintainability, scalability, and reliability in mind
• Knowledge and understanding of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Knowledge of and experience with serverless big data solutions in AWS
• Exceptional personal communication and teamwork interaction skills
• Able to work independently and collaboratively
• Proven leadership skills, demonstrated ability to mentor, influence and partner with engineering teams to deliver scalable robust solutions.
• Willingness to learn and improve

Daily Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of patterns, standards and best practices in the data engineering and solutions space
• Review and identify data solutions in collaboration with the technology teams across the enterprise
• Work with engineering teams to implement architectures
• Influence product and delivery requirements, roadmaps, and vision
• Lead data architecture strategy, design and best practices data platforms and related solutions
• Manage data engineering team under the Enterprise Architecture organization

Delivers:

• Deliver enterprise solutions / architectures with emphasis on data privacy, integrity, scalability, and availability
• Produce organized and comprehensive system architectures and the related documentation
• Design and build functioning proof of concepts for proposed architectures

To be successful in this position you will have:

• Exceptional personal communication and teamwork interaction skills
• Able to work independently and collaboratively
• Proven leadership skills, demonstrated ability to mentor, influence and partner with engineering teams to deliver scalable robust solutions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Have a startup personality and enjoy working as part of a team.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapid growth environment.

Company Benefits & Perks

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