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Description
People empowering people.
At Symphony Talent, we're all about peopleconnecting, inspiring, and hiring them for jobs that transform their lives and our clients organizations.Our human approach, synergistic technology, and brand solutions deliver the outcomes you care about - from reach to retention - by coordinating talent leaders and their teams and enabling them to improve and advance continually.Symphony Talent supports more than 900 clients worldwide, including the world's leading brands. Its headquarters are in New York, London, Bangalore, and Belfast.
Job Overview
Symphony Talent is seeking a skilled and visionary Data Architect to join our dynamic team in India. The ideal candidate will not only play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our data infrastructure but will also provide leadership in shaping the future of our data strategy. As a Data Architect, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust data solutions that support our evolving business needs.
Key Responsibilities Data Architect
Data Architecture & Design
- Own the end-to-end architecture of the enterprise data ecosystem from source ingestion through the data lake to the analytics layer.
- Design scalable, performant, and secure data architectures ensuring integrity, availability, and observability.
- Translate business and analytical needs into logical and physical data models, aligned with governance and compliance standards.
- Define and enforce NFRs including scalability, performance, maintainability, and reliability in all solutions.
Data Integration & Processing
- Architect and oversee data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration for batch and real-time use cases.
- Build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using Spark and Python, ensuring efficiency and resilience.
- Enable seamless data movement across systems while maintaining data quality and consistency.
Data Modeling & Domain Understanding
- Collaborate with business teams to understand domain entities and relationships, translating them into reusable data models.
- Develop semantic and analytical layers supporting BI, self-service analytics, and reporting.
- Ensure data models are intuitive, extensible, and aligned with business context.
Data Governance, Quality & Integrity
- Define and implement data standards, lineage, and metadata frameworks for consistency and traceability.
- Establish data quality monitoring and validation processes to maintain trusted datasets.
- Partner with governance teams to enforce stewardship, retention, and compliance policies.
Security, Compliance & Non-Functional Requirements
- Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to ensure access control, encryption, and auditability of data assets.
- Ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements for data management.
- Continuously evaluate platform performance and scalability, driving architectural improvements.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Partner with data engineering, analytics, and product teams to deliver impactful, reliable data solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to ensure best practices in data design and coding.
- Foster a collaborative, agile, and innovation-driven culture across teams.
Documentation & Continuous Improvement
- Maintain clear documentation of data architecture, models, and integration patterns.
- Conduct architecture reviews and performance assessments to drive continuous improvement.
- Stay informed on emerging data technologies and patterns (e.g., lakehouse, data mesh) to guide platform evolution.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years experience in design and architecture of data solutions spanning the entire data landscape.
- Proven leadership experience as a Data Engineering, with a strong background in designing and implementing data solutions.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and Spark.
- Experience with Data Lake platforms preferably DataBricks
- Experience with Data visualization platforms like Sigma Computing, Thoughtspot, Cognos or other BI tools
- Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark) and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Solid understanding of database management systems, data warehousing, and ETL processes.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
Your Mission-critical Competencies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Believes in teamwork as well as individual contribution.
- Should be eager to learn new things on demand.
- Conflict-management skills.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity.
- Action-oriented.
- Sense of ownership and pride in your performance.
- Critical thinker and problem-solving skills.
- Good time-management skills.
- Interpersonal and communication skills.
- Motivation to learn new things quickly.
- Willingness to admit if you don't know something (we don't know everything either).
Additional Benefits
- Comprehensive insurance coverage and benefits plan
- Competitive salary
- Open and inclusive work culture
- Opportunities to work across projects
This position is based in our Bangalore/Noida office (Hybrid working model).
Inspired by our people-led mission to advance the future of candidates and companies Apply now, and let's make an impact together at Symphony Talent.
