Data Architect

Position: Data Architect

Experience: 10+ years (including a minimum of 2 years in a Data Architect role)

Location: Chennai (WFO)

Immediate Joinee Preferred

Job Responsibilities:

Design and architect scalable, high-performance, and secure data platforms (Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, Lakehouse) to support analytics, AI/ML, and reporting needs.

Leverage Big Data technologies such as PySpark, Hadoop, Kafka, and Databricks for large-scale data processing and transformation.

Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with business requirements and governance standards.

Architect data integration pipelines to enable seamless data flow across diverse systems, including legacy and modern cloud platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Azure).

Lead modernization and migration initiatives from on-premises databases (e.g., Informix, Oracle) to cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

Continuously optimize data pipelines and storage for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and SLA adherence.

Partner with business development teams to provide technical leadership during pre-sales engagements, including client workshops and architecture discussions.

Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, business analysts, and IT teams to ensure architecture alignment with business goals.

Define and enforce data governance frameworks, quality standards, and security policies to ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.

Evaluate emerging technologies and tools to define long-term data strategy and ensure future scalability.

Key Skills

Data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical) for high-performance platforms

Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP; Databricks, Snowflake

Big Data architecture and distributed processing (PySpark, Hadoop, Kafka)

Relational (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, CosmosDB)

ETL/ELT pipeline design, automation, and system integration

Cloud migration: legacy to cloud transitions

Leveraging cloud platform tools for data engineering, pipeline automation, and analytics (e.g., AWS

Glue, Azure Data Factory, GCP Dataflow, Databricks, Snowflake, Talend)

Data security, compliance, and governance

Agile and cross-functional team collaboration

Lakehouse architecture: combining data lake flexibility with warehouse performance

AI/ML and Data Science platform integration for analytics, predictive modelling, and insights

Programming & scripting: SQL, Python & PySpark