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Technical Architect, DevOps & Data job at Burwood Group, Inc. Chicago, IL. Who We Are Burwood Group is not your average technology consulting firm. We are an innovative, culture-driven industry leader, that helps companies use and manage technology to transform business and improve outcomes. Founded in 1997, headquartered in Chicago, we've grown to be a 200+ employee firm with team members and offices spread from Southern California to North Carolina. Burwood fosters a culture that applauds both teamwork and personal growth. We’ve cultivated an incredible team of people who are dedicated to their craft and passionate about using their skills to impact the success of the company. Join our team and build a career as unique as you are. Job Description What You Will Do Burwood is looking for a Technical Architect to help lead client projects in our rapidly growing Application Modernization practice, focused on DevOps and Data Engineering. Working with other team members, you will help us refine our DevOps and Data Modernization offerings and methodologies and lead client efforts to plan and execute Cloud-based application and data solutions. You will develop close relationships with our customers, enabling you to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges in order to inform our technical recommendations and drive value from our data architecture, implementation, and operations efforts. As a Technical Architect, your responsibilities will include: • Learn about your clients’ challenges and needs. Develop technical roadmaps and solutions in support of their strategies and goals. • Inspire change by communicating recommendations and strategic vision across all levels of your clients’ organizations (from CIO to individual contributor). • Demonstrate thought leadership by staying up to date with the latest technologies and architectural frameworks. • Design and lead implementation of data platforms (data lakes, real-time analytics, data mesh, and hybrid-cloud ecosystems) and applications using DevOps best practices. • Act as delivery lead on client projects, planning and ensuring the successful technical delivery of the solution. • Get hands-on and code! This role will be responsible for technical delivery as well. • Assist pre-sales teams with technical scoping of prospective client engagements. • Elevate our team’s capabilities by coaching and mentoring junior teammates. Qualifications Who You Are • 5+ years in solution architecture or principal engineering roles, ideally within enterprise consulting or large-scale digital transformation environments. • Proven experience designing and delivering end-to-end data pipelines, enterprise-grade applications, and DevOps toolchains. • Strong application development background in modern frameworks (Java, Python, etc.) • Strong knowledge of modern enterprise-grade DevOps and data architecture design and implementation (e.g., data lake, data warehouse, and data mesh design patterns) • Excellent organizational and analytical abilities. • Outstanding problem solver. • Good written and verbal communication skills. The Tech Stuff • High level of proficiency in at least one major public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) • Experience developing CI/CD pipelines for testing and deployment (Jenkins, Argo, Google Cloud Build, etc.) • Professional-level certification from a major public cloud vendor (Google Cloud Professional, AWS Professional, etc.) • Experience deploying and managing cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as code (e.g., HashiCorp Terraform) • Experience with Kubernetes (either deploying/managing clusters or utilizing a public cloud-managed solution, e.g, Google Kubernetes Engine) • Familiarity with cloud-native data ecosystems (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Synapse), stream processing (Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc.), and Lakehouse architectures. • Cloud Services (GCP and Azure) Additional Information The Perks If you ask any of our employees here at Burwood “what we love”, the top answer is always the same: our culture. Our employees are driven, innovative, fun-loving, and always willing to help. In addition to that, Burwood also offers some fantastic benefits: • 401(k) and Roth 401(k) savings plan, complete with a company match • Generous vacation policy • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Life and accident insurance • Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage • Flexible work-from-home policy • Flexible spending accounts for pre-tax healthcare and transit/parking expenses • Access to financial planning expertise Compensation packages at Burwood Group are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including work location, skillset, experience, qualifications , and other job-related reasons. ​ The estimated salary range for this role is ($125,00,000-$185,000). This role may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance. Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion We are not intent on being the largest company; rather, we aim to be the best. These are the words we live by. This means we welcome all the best talent, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, and age. Being open to all cultural backgrounds, life experiences, thoughts, and ideas not only strengthens company culture but also encourages different-in-kind thinking and promotes economic success.

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