Starburst Architect

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

 

Primary Skill: Starburst

Secondary: Hadoop, Informatica

Experience: Minimum 10 years

 

Roles & Responsibilities

 

Responsible to design and implement federated query and open Lakehouse architecture. Their core focus is enabling seamless, high-performance SQL access across disparate, distributed data sources (lakes, data warehouses, and relational databases) without requiring costly data movement.

 

· Data Virtualization Strategy: Design federated data access solutions utilizing distributed SQL engines and open table formats to abstract away underlying data storage locations

· Platform Architecture: Architect, deploy, and scale Starburst Enterprise or Starburst Galaxy platforms. Configure and manage diverse connectors to object storage (S3, ADLS), NoSQL, and relational databases

· Performance Tuning: Optimize distributed SQL queries, resolve data processing bottlenecks, and implement workload management and caching strategies

· Governance & Security: Collaborate with InfoSec and compliance teams to enforce role-based access control, row/column-level security, and data lineage using tools like Apache Ranger

· AI & Analytics Enablement: Support downstream data consumption for BI (Tableau, Power BI) and act as a foundation for enterprise AI and RAG pipelines.