Senior Data Architect

Overview

Title: Senior Data Architect

Years of Experience : 10+ years

Location: Onsite (The selected candidate is required to relocate to Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu for the initial three-month project training session. Post training, the candidate will be relocated to one of our onsite locations:_ Chennai, Hyderabad, or Pune, based on project allocation.)_

Job Description

The Senior Data Architect will design, govern, and optimize the entire data ecosystem for advanced analytics and AI workloads. This role ensures data is collected, stored, processed, and made accessible in a secure, performant, and scalable manner. The candidate will drive architecture design for structured/unstructured data, build data governance frameworks, and support the evolution of modern data platforms across cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Architect enterprise data platforms using Azure/AWS/GCP and modern data lake/data mesh patterns
• Design logical and physical data models, semantic layers, and metadata frameworks
• Establish data quality, lineage, governance, and security policies
• Guide the development of ETL/ELT pipelines using modern tools and streaming frameworks
• Integrate AI and analytics solutions with operational data platforms
• Enable self-service BI and ML pipelines through Databricks, Synapse, or Snowflake
• Lead architecture reviews, design sessions, and CoE reference architecture development

Technical Skills

· Cloud Platforms: Azure Synapse, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, AWS Redshift

· Data Modeling: ERWin, dbt, Power Designer

· Storage & Processing: Delta Lake, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Spark

· Integration: Azure Data Factory, Kafka, Event Grid, SSIS

· Metadata/Lineage: Purview, Collibra, Informatica

· BI Platforms: Power BI, Tableau, Looker

· Security & Compliance: RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit, NIST/FISMA

Qualification

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Data Engineering
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer / Azure Solutions Architect
• Strong experience building cloud-native data architectures
• Demonstrated ability to create data blueprints aligned with business strategy and compliance.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to ₹80,000.00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu: Reliably commute or willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Expected Salary in annual (INR)

Experience:

• Data Architect: 10 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Azure Data Engineer or Azure Solutions Architect (Required)

Work Location: In person