Lead Data Architect

Exp: 12+ Yrs
Loc: Chennai/Pune Hybrid
Notice: Immediate

JD :

Required experience
$B!|(B Significant experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms and data products.

$B!|(B Strong hands-on architecture experience with Databricks, Apache Spark and Delta Lake.

$B!|(B Experience with governance capabilities such as Unity Catalog, including lineage, access control and audit.

$B!|(B Strong knowledge of data modelling for heterogeneous structured and semi-structured sources.

$B!|(B Experience designing reusable batch-ingestion frameworks using APIs and file-based interfaces.

$B!|(B Strong understanding of SQL, Python or PySpark and distributed data-processing patterns.

$B!|(B Experience with medallion or equivalent layered data architectures.

$B!|(B Knowledge of orchestration, monitoring, retry, replay, backfill and quarantine patterns.

$B!|(B Experience designing CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and environment-promotion approaches for data platforms.

$B!|(B Strong understanding of data privacy, PII controls, retention, licensing and enterprise security.

$B!|(B Experience taking a data platform from initial design through production deployment.

$B!|(B Ability to explain complex architectural decisions clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

Desirable experience

$B!|(B Experience with social-listening, search, media-intelligence or aviation data.

$B!|(B Experience working with licensed external datasets and complex usage rights.

$B!|(B Familiarity with platforms such as Sprinklr, Conductor, Google Trends, Google Ads Keyword Planner or OAG.

$B!|(B Understanding of LLM, retrieval and agentic solution patterns.

$B!|(B Experience designing evidence-grounded AI or analytics products where outputs require citations and provenance.

$B!|(B Familiarity with MLflow or equivalent model and AI evaluation tooling.

$B!|(B Experience working in regulated financial-services or payments environments.

$B!|(B Experience supporting human-in-the-loop validation and scoring calibration.