Sr. Cloud Architect (Hybrid)

At Fingerhut, you will enter a culture that encourages team members to be bold and courageous. A culture that is zealous in pursuit of our mission to help our customers live a better financial life. In this culture, our team members find opportunities to stretch themselves, have a voice that is valued and is listened to have a sizeable impact on the business, work cross-functionally and collaboratively. We are continually innovating and improving, challenging ourselves to take risks, learn from mistakes, and celebrate success as a team. We also grow careers, giving employees on-the-job stretch assignments, lateral moves to expand knowledge bases, and promotional opportunities that help to accelerate development.

As a Sr. Cloud Architect, you will design robust, secure, and maintainable solutions that enable our advanced Analytics, Reporting, and Machine Learning capabilities for the Customer, Product and Credit teams. If you are an individual who likes to touch a variety of BI and Data Engineering technologies, but your core is Cloud Architecture, you will be an ideal fit. Your role is expected to work with IT personnel, data engineering, business stakeholders, and vendor contacts to gather the inputs necessary to design, document, and articulate the architectural vision for our BI projects and lead their implementation.

This is not just another job; Fingerhut's mission is to help Americans live a better financial life by helping them establish, build, or rebuild their credit. You'll help the business hold itself accountable to deliver on our mission every day.

We empower each employee to put the customer first and our culture of ensuring all employees have an impact enables an entrepreneurial passion. No matter what stage of your career, you'll make an impact on business results and interface with key leaders. As we continue to invest in machine learning, data-driven modeling, CRM tools and innovation, the future is very exciting. Join us in our mission!

This role is based out of our Eden Prairie, MN head office within our hybrid environment that has team members come into the office 3 days a week.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and implement data architecture solutions in cloud environments, utilizing both cloud-native and cloud-agnostic technologies and services.

• Understand and implement access control policies, including role- and attribute-based access control.

• Design and implement event-driven systems using AWS services like Lambda, EventBridge, SNS, and SQS.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure using CloudFormation and Terraform, ensuring proper configuration control, consistency, and scalability.

• Understanding of AWS and 3rd party APIs, and troubleshooting/resolving service authorization issues.

• Databricks Platform Management: Account administration, automated provisioning maintenance, metastore (Unity Catalog) administration, workspace administration, global permissions management, compute policy management, capacity planning.

• Regularly review, plan, and rollout simplification, modernization, and cost optimization opportunities across the environment.

• Maintain requirement and design specifications, solution diagrams, procedures, and other technical documents.

• Architect and maintain multi-account landing zones, including VPC structure, service control policies, and networking configurations.

• Establish data governance policies, procedures, and controls to ensure data security, privacy, and compliance with regulatory requirements in cloud environments.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, a related field, or equivalent combination of educational and work experience.

• Deep technical understanding of AWS services, their APIs, and integration patterns with client applications.

• 5 years of experience in designing and implementing BI and/or data platform focused architectural solutions using public and private AWS cloud services.

• 5 years of experience related to BI disciplines including 2 of the following: Object-Orientated Programing, Data Integration (ingestion and ETL), Data Modeling, Data Analytics, or Data Platform Administration.

• Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Cloud Formation to define and deploy cloud and other service provider resources.

• Experience using Git source control management and associated workflow methodologies such as GitFlow.

• Experience working on Agile development teams employing the Scrum or Kanban methodologies.

• Experience writing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience working in both Linux and Windows environments.

• Knowledge of data governance, data security, and regulatory compliance best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing solutions that support Data Engineering and Data Science platforms.

• Understanding of Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI workflows and their optimization.

• Experience with any of DMS, FiveTran HVR, SageMaker, Dataiku, SAS, Looker, MicroStrategy, Power BI, Redshift, EMR, or Databricks.

• Experience architecting solutions that are modern, scalable, reliable, and low maintenance.

• Experience advocating for their ideas and attaining buy-in from peers on solution approach and work priorities.

• Experience working directly with business partners to understand solution requirements and translate them to technical requirements and designs.

• Proven analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.

• Communicates well with technical and non-technical stakeholders and team members.

• Highly responsible, eager to learn, and self-motivated.

• Experience breaking down work for distribution to team members for execution.

About Fingerhut:

BLST Operating Company (Bluestem Brands) is a group of FinTech, and eCommerce Retail businesses (www.bluestem.com) led by our Fingerhut and Orchard Portfolios. This position falls under Fingerhut - a long-standing fintech company. Check out www.fingerhut.com to see who we are and what we do for our customers. Fingerhut fuses our extensive years of data modeling and real-time analytics through machine learning to provide flexible payment options for our valued customers looking to establish, build, or rebuild credit. Qualifying customers use their accounts for e-Commerce purchases at fingerhut.com for everything they and their family need across a broad selection of national brands.

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