Cloudera Technical Architect

Role: Cloudera Technical Architect

Location: Jeddah

Program: Enterprise Data Lakehouse Implementation (Expansion, Remediation & Operationalization)

Domain: Banking & Financial Services (BFSI)

Immediately available candidate preferred

My client is a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions.

Role Summary

My client is seeking an experienced Cloudera Technical Architect to lead the design, optimization, and governance of a large-scale Enterprise Data Lakehouse platform. The role will focus on ensuring platform scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence while supporting remediation of existing implementations and future expansion initiatives.

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.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)
• Hands-on experience with:
• HDFS, Spark, Hive, Impala
• Kafka, NiFi
• Ozone, HBase, Kudu
• Iceberg, Hive Metastore
• Ranger, Knox, Kerberos
• 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.

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.

*** Only successful candidates will be contacted ***