Specialist Cloud Engineer Lead

## What skills you will learn ## About this Role The AIDA tower is a strategic unit focused on helping local markets migrate and optimize their cloud solutions. We are seeking a Cloud Data Solutions Architect to lead the end-to-end design of secure, scalable, and highly optimized data platforms across a multi-cloud environment. This role requires a strategic vison to explain to all the stakeholders the complex architectural designs and guide the team to create a solution. You will be responsible for guiding the migration of legacy data systems to the cloud and evolve and optimize the existing solution. The cost-optimization (FinOps) principles, and the security need to be included into every design, and establishing the governance and technical blueprints that will empower our engineering teams to build autonomously ## What you’ll do Key accountabilities and decision ownership: * Understand the data, and how to model them inside the BI environment to create values from information, ensuring data quality * Lead the end-to-end design and architecture of secure, scalable, and optimized data platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure). * Design and implement decentralized data mesh architectures, establishing robust data contracts to verify formats, ensure data quality, and prevent unnecessary data replication. * Drive the strategic migration of legacy on-premises systems (such as Teradata, Oracle, and Exadata) to modern cloud data hubs, ensuring minimal disruption to existing systems. * Effort Estimation & Roadmapping: Drive the technical feasibility analysis and provide high-level effort estimations (resource, time, and complexity) for local market cloud migrations, ensuring alignment with project timelines and budget constraints. * Establish new data interaction patterns for complex multi-cloud environments, such as optimizing direct cloud-to-cloud data movement to enhance latency and reduce costs. * Embed FinOps principles directly into the technical design phase, ensuring that cost efficiency is a conscious consideration and a critical metric for business value. * Take ownership of optimizing compute capacity and resource allocation (e.g., transitioning to slot reservations and implementing dynamic scaling in BigQuery) to manage fluctuating demands efficiently. * Make the data model sustainable from ETL and performance point of view * Work with business users to ensure we can support and anticipate company's data needs. * AI-Driven Architecture: Design and implement AI-powered data solutions, * Recommend approaches, lead design and create solid technical solutions for complex business scenarios Core competencies, knowledge and experience: * Understand business requirements to enhance the systems and provide the necessary data in the best way according to the IT strategy and the business needs. * ETL development * Cloud migration and transformation * Network knowledge to interconnect cloud and on prem ## Who you are Must have technical / professional qualifications: * Experience in the end-to-end design and architecture of scalable data platforms in hybrid and multi-cloud environments (preferably GCP, AWS, Azure). * Experience / collaboration in BI pipeline design projects * Deep knowledge of modern data warehousing, data lakes, and ETL/ELT orchestration * Strong foundation in Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and cloud security best practices (e.g., principle of least privilege, data encryption). * Proven track record in FinOps, including cloud cost forecasting, resource rightsizing, and optimizing compute capacity (e.g., Big Query slot allocation). * Experience in leading complex cloud migrations from legacy on-premises systems (e.g., Teradata, Oracle) to modern cloud hubs. * Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering and/or other STEM degrees * Cloud certifications * Working experience in similar roles * Attitude to plan and organize work to deliver project as agreed * Great communication skills and stakeholder’s management * Fluent English (both speaking and writing) and optional Spanish. * (Preferred) Knowledge of Cloud Data Architecture for Data Warehousing * Proactive in the day by day working tasks and attitude in acquiring new skills ## Not a perfect fit? 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