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Contract type:
Permanent
Location:
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
24 August 2026
What they need
We're hiring : Data Platform Architect
Work Setup: Remote (flexible to come office as per the need basis.)
Shifts : UK Shifts
Experience : 8+ years
Notice period: Immediate or currently serving a notice period (15 days).
Mandatory Skill Sets :
Experience migrating or architecting a Data Lakehouse (Databricks) with open source technologies.
Experience with tools like DBT, K8, Docker, and OpenLineage.
Role:
The Data Platform Architect is the lead designer and technical authority
for our modern data ecosystem. Architect is responsible for ensuring the platform provides a high-performance, cost-effective, and secure foundation that evolves alongside business needs. This is a "design-and-direction" role where you set the standards, review engineering output, and serve as the primary bridge between complex technical systems and business value.
Technical Skills & Experience:
- 8+ Years in Data Engineering / Architecture: Proven experience delivering
production-grade Lakehouse environments for high-concurrency (1,000+ user) organizations.- Modern Data Stack Fluency: Extensive experience
with Databricks (Lakehouse/Unity Catalog) and high-performance warehouses like Amazon Redshift or Snowflake. - Open-Table Formats: Deep hands-on expertise with Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake, including optimization strategies for partitioning and schema evolution.
- Transformation & Modeling: Mastery of dbt (Core) for complex SQL-based modeling and PySpark or Python for sophisticated data processing.
- High-Efficiency Compute: Familiarity with vectorized/embedded engines like DuckDB for specialized or cost-sensitive processing tasks.
- Orchestration Mastery: Advanced experience with Apache Airflow, specifically
in designing resilient, dependency-aware DAGs in resource-constrained environments. - Cloud Ecosystems: Expert-level knowledge of AWS (S3, EC2, IAM) or equivalent services in Azure/GCP, with a focus on storage-compute separation.
- Experience with open-source catalog implementations like Apache Polaris.
- Modern Data Stack Fluency: Extensive experience
Interested candidates can send their resumes to [email protected]
Regards,
HR Manager
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