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Zyte

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Web crawling • Web scraping • Scraping • Scrapy • Data Science

201 - 500

💰 $3M Debt Financing on 2021-12

Description

• At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. • Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 240 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. • For more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. • And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. • Today, over 2,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web. • Zyte is looking for a motivated Solutions Architect to further accelerate the rapid growth Zyte has seen in recent years. • As a Solutions Architect, you will collect project requirements and provide technical solutions to our customers and internal teams for delivery. • You will be pivotal in translating customer and technical project requirements across various internal and external teams. • You’ll love this role if you enjoy studying different use cases and finding the best solutions. • No two days will be exactly the same, and you’ll be interacting closely with the Sales team and potential customers.

Requirements

• Meet with qualified leads to clarify requirements and address technical inquiries for the project. • Translate customer requirements into a viable solution leveraging the best tools for the job; conduct deep technical investigation, propose the best approach and solution inclusive of effort, cost estimates, and occasionally project timelines that fit the customer’s business goals and expectations. • Build Proof of Concepts, to assess feasibility, refine scope, and arrive at a viable proposal • Proactively work with internal subject matter experts to learn and stay up-to-date on Zyte products and service offerings. • Showcase technical expertise in data acquisition projects and provide an architectural solution that helps customers hit their business goals • Create, write and present customer proposals and ensure it completely captures the technical requirements for the solution proposed. • You understand aspects of web crawling using Python and Scrapy and knowledge of HTTP and networking. • You have strong client and customer-facing experience - a minimum of 3 years experience in a similar position within a technical environment. • You are comfortable taking ownership in business-critical situations and enjoy being the “go-to” person. • You have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and are comfortable in document writing, both technical and non-technical. • You possess excellent presentation skills and experience in articulating technical and business solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences. • You have the ability to articulate and convey technical solutions effectively and clearly to internal teams and stakeholders. • You have the zeal to understand customer business requirements really well by asking the right questions. • You have the confidence to assert and justify the technical feasibility of a requirement, to make decisions, negotiate scope, and assess risk. • You are naturally dissatisfied with inefficiencies and having to do the same thing more than once; you see ways to fix the underlying cause rather than only reacting to what’s in front of you. • You demonstrate proven knowledge and experience of estimation, planning, and project management. • You are well organized, self-motivated, and communicative -- an essential skill in a remote team. • Experience freelancing or consulting for software projects. • Experience in web crawling in other tools. • Fluency in one or more major European language. • A proven track record of working with a remote team. • Knowledge of and interest in web crawling, data mining and information retrieval.

Benefits

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team. • Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work. • Work with cutting-edge open-source technologies and tools.