Lead Cloudera Consultant

Job#: 3011596

Job Description:

Job Title: Lead Cloudera Consultant (Solution Architect)

Type: 6-month contract to start

Job ID: 3011596

Location: United States

Schedule: 100% 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Cloudera Solution Architect or Lead Consultant in enterprise environments.
• Expertise in Cloudera CDP, Hadoop ecosystem, Kafka, Flink, and SSB.
• Strong knowledge of data curation, metadata management, and schema design.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake Iceberg or similar warehousing technologies.
• Proficiency in CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions) and logging tools (Datadog).
• Familiarity with cloud and on-premises Cloudera deployments.
• Excellent communication and training skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Cloudera Certified Professional or equivalent certifications.
• Experience with secret management tools and enterprise security practices.
• Knowledge of cost optimization strategies for large-scale data platforms.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.