(SENIOR) DATA ARCHITECT

Would you like to be a part of Recordly's story? Now is your chance! We’re looking for Data Architects, who are eager to help businesses capitalize on the opportunities data offers. Working at Recordly means you get to work with customers that truly want to make data their competitive edge. Based on your skills, impact, and experience, you'll join us as either a Data Architect, Senior Data Architect, or Lead Data Architect in line with our career framework.

“WHO/WHAT IS RECORDLY?” YOU MIGHT ASK

Recordly is an independent Futurice family company specializing in value creation for our customers with data & AI solutions. We believe a significant data transformation is taking place, but many companies are facing challenges in actualizing its full potential. We are here to help.

Our mission is to define how humans and data co-operate. We want to support businesses in understanding the data they already have, the business opportunities data possesses they’re not yet realizing, and how to use these to enhance strategic KPIs. Simultaneously, we aim to translate business requirements into actionable tasks for teams working with the data or related technologies. Through this collaboration with our customers, we aspire to drive and accelerate a broader data transformation movement.

In more traditional terms, our core business revolves around data management, data engineering, data architectures, data & AI strategy and governance as well as hands-on AI solutions - all of which enable exceptional user experiences, efficiency gains, and new business models. We also get our hands dirty with real-time data, ML/GenAI solutions or building enterprise-level ML platforms with modern state of the art data tech stacks. We’re tech-agnostic, but some of our most commonly used tools include Azure, GCP, AWS, Snowflake, dbt, and Databricks. In simple terms, we tech the heck out of data. What sets us apart is who we are and how we do it.

Our employee promise (besides offering engaging customer assignments, of course) includes the possibility of enjoying the company's success and shaping who we are and what we do together. We believe in being open about how the business is going and how our choices affect the bottom line. Take a look at our site to get to know us better!

NOW TO THE ROLE ITSELF

A Data Architect at Recordly typically works in tight cooperation with our customers within different assignments. Assignments vary and may sometimes even require hands-on work from time to time - meaning you may have to open up AWS/Azure/GCP Console and deploy some resources if needed or write some SQL lines when the Data Engineers are not around.

As we focus on creating actual business value by creating or utilizing for example data platforms, we value the following skills:

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, along with the ability to influence and demonstrate confidence in communications with senior-level management.
• Ability to understand and translate business requirements into data and technical requirements. - And we truly mean this. We want to be the glue, bridge, sellotape - whatever you want to call it - between the IT and business departments so that they understand each other.
• Ability to cope with ever-evolving technologies used in the data domain and simultaneously understand the business and engineering side of new data products. - Yes, we know this sounds awful. The data domain is moving 88 miles per hour, making it difficult for anyone to keep up with, for example, what Apache Foundation is releasing next month. Fear not, however, we will help you with this with our continuous learning opportunities and hackathons.
• Working knowledge of Agile development, including DevOps and DataOps concepts.
• Finnish and English skills as some of our projects are in Finnish.

Necessary technical skills:

• Experience in designing and building hands-on and running highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets. - We don’t mind if your experience is also from on-premise systems, as we know that the scalability pains are even higher over there.
• Experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and building high-volume ETL/ELT pipelines. - If star schemas or Data Vault or Data Warehouse Automation are familiar words to you, you’ll be fine.
• Fluent with cloud infrastructure, especially the data side of the big three (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform) - We don’t expect you to be certified (we can help you with that), but work experience at least within one of the big three is needed.
• Understanding and/or experience with Data Lake infrastructure, Data Warehousing, and Data Analytics tools. - By this we mean, that you know what other tools (MDM, Data Catalogs, Data Lineage tools etc.) are needed for a good data platform and have some experience with those.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

When you join Recordly, you’ll be greeted by our open culture and awesome colleagues. On the more tangible side, we both want you to be able to pay your bills and take good care of yourself. We do not believe in a one-size-fits-all approach. Therefore, we have introduced a pimp my benefits plan to make sure you get the most out of your benefits. Pick and choose what benefits you want to prioritise! In addition to the pimp my benefits offering, a great common baseline of benefits is offered to all employees. Below you can find some further details about our current benefit offering:

• As a Recordly employee, you have the option to buy stocks of the company through the common employee share program
• A yearly bonus based on company performance (equal to all full-time Recordlians)
• Flexible remote working model
• Extensive health care, including dental and mental health
• Monthly massage
• Insurance for travel and free-time
• Phone benefit
• Pick the laptop and phone of your choosing
• Child care services when your child falls ill
• Recurring training & learning sessions and other social events
• Lunch benefit as a part of the pimp my benefits plan
• Sports & culture benefit as a part of the pimp my benefits plan
• Bike benefit as a part of the pimp my benefits plan
• Public transportation benefit as a part of the pimp my benefits plan
• IT & remote budget as a part of the pimp my benefits plan
• Home cleaning or additional child care services as a part of the pimp my benefits plan

Besides those, we promise you challenging customer assignments. Go check out the amazing work our Recordlians have done. Please note that currently we only offer permanent remote work opportunities in Finland and we cannot offer relocation support.

INTERESTED TO HEAR MORE?

The recruitment process usually has two to three steps during which we get to know who you are and what motivates you. You will learn more about Recordly and get to meet different people from our company. You'll have the opportunity to present highlights from your career and tell us about your skills, roles, and learnings. We’re committed to creating a good match between you and our organization, and want to spend time to get it right. Sometimes, an assignment might be given to you to complete between interviews.

When we’re done with the face-to-face discussions, we’ll contact the people you have chosen as references.

We hope to hear from you soon!