Sr Data Architect

Job Summary

Does working for 150+ million children of Bharat excite you? Then this opportunity is for you!

Key Responsibilities

• Design and own the enterprise data architecture: lakehouse structure, data flow, storage strategy, and governance model.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
• Define data governance standards: data cataloguing, lineage tracking, quality monitoring, and access control frameworks.
• Design schemas and data models optimised for AI/ML consumption: feature stores, training data pipelines, label stores.
• Architect real-time data processing systems for live learner signals, telemetry, and product analytics.
• Evaluate and evolve the cloud data platform stack: Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent.
• Collaborate with ML teams on feature engineering infrastructure and training data reproducibility.
• Establish data contracts and API-first data design patterns across consuming teams.
• Drive performance optimisation, cost engineering, and reliability across the data platform.
• Lead cross-functional data teams and manage stakeholder relationships across engineering, product, and business units.
• Translate business requirements from skilling, education, and government contexts into scalable, pragmatic data architecture decisions.

Must-have skills

• Strong experience in designing and implementing data solutions and platforms
• Ability to work across multiple technologies, databases, cloud platforms, and data tools
• Strong understanding of data architecture, integration, data modelling, and data flow design; hands-on experience designing and maintaining big data systems
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving technical solutions
• Excellent problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills; strong hands-on ETL experience including building, optimizing, and maintaining ETL pipelines at scale
• Experience translating business requirements into scalable data solutions
• Familiarity with skilling, education, or workforce development domains is preferred

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