Data Principal Consultant – Microsoft Graduate Scheme Manchester

Overview

Position Title: Data Principal Consultant

Company: Microsoft

Location: Manchester, UK

Job Description

The Industry Solutions Retail and Consumer Goods Service Line’s mission is to scale our ability to sell, solution, and deliver at pace for customers. As a member of this team YOU will help to accelerate the digital transformation of traditional bricks and mortar retailers to become cutting-edge omnichannel businesses, and accelerate the digital transformation of consumer goods companies from the traditional wholesale model to a true multi-channel DTC business.

Responsibilities:

• Defines and documents the architecture through an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach. Leads complex cost-based and technology-based discussions to explain the Architecture in terms of its build, deployment, and ongoing operational use to determine customer appetite for the business solution. Uses a business-value approach that values return on investment (ROI) and customer costs-savings over technical ease of execution.
• Collaborates with the Project Manager to jointly drive project/technical governance of the design, build, and deployment into use of proof of concepts (POCs) and pilots, using enterprise architecture processes and ensuring quality control through peer review. Works with customers to understand and demonstrate business value (e.g., release of revenue, cost savings) that the business solution realize.
• Works with the business sponsor and customer/partner stakeholders (e.g., Business users, Enterprise Architects, Security Team, Operations Team) to gather and ratify requirements and constraints. Manages and resolves complex ambiguity in the requirements and constraints and documents assumptions and implications where it cannot be resolved. Maintains the requirements/constraints traceability matrix to prove that solution components have a rationale/justification for inclusion in the architecture of the business solution. Drives development and execution of test plans to prove that each requirement/constraint has been implemented as expected by the customer. Where there are defects, works in close collaboration with the Project Manager and Customer to redress or accept and document the status of the test results.

Requirements:

• Technical or Professional Certification in Domain (e.g., Data).
• Architectural training/certifications like TOGAF or IASA is desirable.
• Solid hands-on experience with On-prem and Cloud big data solutions. Azure or AWS. Hadoop/Spark/Hive or NoSQL based systems like Azure HDI, CosmosDB, Hortonworks, Cloudera, Casandra, MongoDB, etc.
• Proficiency with ML toolkits and data science libraries such as Azure ML, Jupyter notebook, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Databricks & MLflow
• Strong years of Java/Python/R/Scala/Linux/PHP Programming experience.
• Demonstrated years of Program or Project or Product Management with Technical prowess and passion-especially for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Data Services and Database products.
• Deep technical knowledge/experience on architecting, developing, and deploying enterprise Big Data engineering solutions.