Job Description

Title : Senior Data Architect

Years of Experience : 10+ years

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 Types: Full-time, Permanent

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Expected Start Date: 12/07/2025