Senior Data Architect: Telco/Banking End-to-End Platform

Zohorecruit; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Techsa is seeking a Senior Technical Data Architect to own the data platform architecture end to end, from landing and storage to processing, serving, and governance. You will set the standards the data engineering team builds against and work across teams to deliver scalable, production-ready capabilities.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of relevant experience, hands-on expertise in data architecture, ETL, data warehousing, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, lakehouse design, and SQL, and a proven track

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with data architecture, ETL, data warehousing, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Lakehouse design, SQL.
• Real ownership of data platform architecture, not pipeline delivery alone.
• Hands on across both batch and streaming processing.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver solutions within the scope of the role, from requirements and technical/design decisions through implementation and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with engineering, product, data, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical, scalable solutions.
• Apply strong engineering and/or domain expertise to build reliable, maintainable, and production-ready capabilities.
• Contribute to architecture, standards, documentation, quality, and technical decision-making appropriate to the role.
• Identify performance, scalability, data quality, usability, reliability, or operational risks and address them proactively.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure solutions integrate effectively with existing systems and platform components.

Skills

Data architecture

ETL

Data warehousing

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Lakehouse design

SQL

On-prem infrastructure

Multi-tenancy trade-offs

Tools

Open table formats

Query engines

OLAP stores

Job description

Techsa is seeking a Senior Technical Data Architect to own the data platform architecture end to end, from landing and storage to processing, serving, and governance. You will set the standards the data engineering team builds against and work across teams to deliver scalable, production-ready capabilities.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of relevant experience, hands-on expertise in data architecture, ETL, data warehousing, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, lakehouse design, and SQL, and a proven track