Cloudera Technical Architect
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About the Role
A global IT services leader seeks an experienced Cloudera Technical Architect to lead the design, optimization, and governance of a large-scale Enterprise Data Lakehouse platform. The role focuses on platform scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence in the banking sector.
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Responsibilities
- Design and govern Cloudera CDP architecture aligned with enterprise Data Lakehouse standards
- Define architecture patterns for batch, streaming, and analytics workloads
- Lead performance optimization across Spark, Hive, Impala, and YARN environments
- Architect and support real time data ingestion using Kafka and NiFi
- Implement and enforce security controls using Ranger, Kerberos, encryption, and access governance
- Review existing Cloudera implementations, identify gaps, and drive remediation initiatives
- Define monitoring, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational best practices
- Collaborate with architects, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to ensure successful platform delivery
Requirements
- 10–15+ years of experience in Big Data and Data Platform technologies
- Proven experience architecting and optimizing large scale Cloudera environments
- Banking/BFSI or other regulated industry experience preferred
- Experience working with onsite and offshore delivery teams
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Role Overview
- Role: Cloudera Technical Architect
- Location: Jeddah
- Program: Enterprise Data Lakehouse Implementation (Expansion, Remediation & Operationalization)
- Domain: Banking & Financial Services (BFSI)
- Immediately available candidate preferred
Experience
- 10–15+ years of experience in Big Data and Data Platform technologies
- Proven experience architecting and optimizing large scale Cloudera environments
- Banking/BFSI or other regulated industry experience preferred
- Experience working with onsite and offshore delivery teams
Required Skills
- Strong expertise in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)
- Hands on experience with HDFS, Spark, Hive, Impala
- Hands on experience with Kafka, NiFi
- Hands on experience with Ozone, HBase, Kudu
- Hands on experience with Iceberg, Hive Metastore
- Hands on experience with Ranger, Knox, Kerberos
- Hands on experience with Cloudera Manager and Cloudera AI
- Strong knowledge of cluster sizing, capacity planning, workload management, and performance tuning
- Experience implementing secure, highly available, enterprise scale data platforms
Key Responsibilities
- Design and govern Cloudera CDP architecture aligned with enterprise Data Lakehouse standards
- Define architecture patterns for batch, streaming, and analytics workloads
- Lead performance optimization across Spark, Hive, Impala, and YARN environments
- Architect and support real time data ingestion using Kafka and NiFi
- Implement and enforce security controls using Ranger, Kerberos, encryption, and access governance
- Review existing Cloudera implementations, identify gaps, and drive remediation initiatives
- Define monitoring, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational best practices
- Collaborate with architects, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to ensure successful platform delivery
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