Architect

Job Description: Solution Architect (Onshore) - Real-Time Analytics Platform Migration

Engagement: Virtusa - Enterprise Media/Publishing Client, Event-Driven Analytics Platform Migration Location: Onshore (US-based; remote acceptable, must overlap Eastern Time business hours) Allocation: 100% (Full-time), single engagement Contract Type: T&M Contractor Rate Basis: Onshore billing rate - 8 hrs/day Reporting To: Solution Lead / Engagement Manager, Virtusa Data Practice Start: ASAP (target: immediate onboarding ahead of contract execution/kickoff)

About the Engagement

Virtusa is delivering an analytics platform migration for a large media/publishing client, replacing legacy analytics tooling with a unified real-time event collection layer landing in a cloud data warehouse under a Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architecture, built on event-driven platforms similar to Snowplow, Segment, or mParticle. The program spans four deliverables:

D1 - Real-Time Newsroom Web UI (custom replacement for a legacy real-time analytics dashboard)

D2 - Executive Audience Goals Dashboard (BI tool reconnection to warehouse-sourced Gold data)

D3 - Enablement of event tracking for a secondary editorial property (accelerated track, hard deadline)

D4 - Gold-layer pipeline repointing for the client's top 5 analytics dashboards

This is a staff-augmentation, T&M engagement where the client owns program management; the vendor team supplements the client's implementation team rather than operating independently. The Solution Architect is the sole onshore technical anchor for the engagement, working closely with an offshore delivery team.

Role Purpose

The Solution Architect owns end-to-end technical solutioning and delivery oversight across all four deliverables, acts as the primary technical counterpart to the client's Data Engineering team, and ensures architectural consistency between the Gold-layer pipeline work (Data Practice) and the newsroom UI work (UI Practice). This role is the single point of technical accountability onshore and is expected to be embedded in daily client-facing collaboration, not just internal delivery oversight.

Key Responsibilities

Own the technical architecture for Gold-layer pipeline design (dbt/Airflow on a cloud data warehouse platform) and its integration points with the Real-Time Newsroom Web UI and Audience Goals Dashboard.