Data Architect

Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using Amazon Web Services (AWS). We provide a full-range of AWS services including workload migrations and modernization, cloud native application development, DevOps, data engineering, security and compliance, and everything in between.

At Caylent, our people always come first.  We are a global company and operate fully remote with employees in Canada, the United States, and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien!

Your Assignment 

• You will be a mission control specialist, guiding Cayliens and Customers alike through  Agile ceremonies like stand-ups, retrospectives, and more. 
• You will translate customer requirements and into a workable backlog of tickets for engineers. 
• Delegate tickets to a team of engineers in order to complete customer projects.
• Lead requirements gathering, backlog grooming, and architecture discussions.
• Apply your understanding of DevOps pipelines, including build automation, branching strategies, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, security, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in customer dev, test, and production environments. 
• Automate software testing at multiple levels (component, configuration item, subsystem,  system) and monitor results.
• Write production quality code, including unit and integration tests.
• Work with a team to deliver top-quality cloud native applications on AWS for customers.
• Clearly communicate and document your designs, processes, and procedures.
• You will demonstrate a passion to Stay Curious as you mentor peers, tackle new  technologies, and learn from our word-class team of engineers.
• Coach and mentor less experienced teammates, coach and be mentored by world class  engineers.

Your Qualifications

Core Consulting Qualifications 

Customer Experience 

• Confidently addresses client questions and identifies gaps in requirements with  proposed next steps. 
• Focus on delivering clear, actionable solutions that meet client goals Collaboration 
• Facilitates alignment across stakeholders or technical priorities and deliverables.
• Navigates differing perspectives with professionalism to ensure shared understanding  and progress. 

Communication 

• Breaks down complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences in a clear, concise  manner. 
• Adapts communication style based on audience and context to improve clarity and decision-making. 

Technical Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing at least two of the following:
  • ETL, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • SQL databases, stored procedures, query optimization.
  • Analytics and visualization.
  • MDM and data governance.
• Experience implementing at least two of the following on AWS:
  • High availability solutions, read/write replicas, performance tuning.
  • RDS and Aurora optimization.
  • Large scale application migration with a focus on databases.
  • Security, access controls, and governance in the cloud.
• Expert-level understanding of data warehouses and RDBMs (Redshift, Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL).
• Proficiency with IaC tools (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform) and CI/CD tools.
• Experience with AWS Glue, Lambda, SDKs.

Benefits