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Cloudera Technical Architect
Ref: JO-2608-362627
- Saudi Arabia
- Cloud, Network and Infrastructure, Technology
- IT
- 1,000 - 4,999 Employee
- Environment: In-office
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Starts: 2026-10-05
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 ***
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