Platform Architect: Data Mesh, Snowflake & Confluent

Infosys Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Infosys Limited is seeking a seasoned Platform Architect to lead enterprise-scale data and integration platforms across Snowflake, Confluent Cloud, Azure, and Kubernetes. You will define standards, governance, and modernization roadmaps, while guiding hands‑on architecture work and ensuring scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient implementations.

The role demands deep cloud experience across major platforms, strong stakeholder engagement, and a track record of delivering large multi‑technology

Qualifications

• 15+ years in Platform Engineering, Cloud, Integration, or Data Platforms.
• must have 1 large program where the person has implemented a multi technology platform for data on cloud
• Strong expertise in Snowflake and/or Confluent Kafka.
• Experience with Confluent Cloud, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and event‑driven architecture.
• Hands‑on experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD, DevOps automation, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code.
• Experience with Azure/AWS/GCP cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud‑native platforms.
• Deep understanding of Data Mesh, Data Governance, Security, and Compliance.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and platform operations.
• Strong stakeholder management and customer‑facing experience.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise platform architecture, reference architecture, standards, and engineering guardrails.
• Build modernization roadmaps for Data, Streaming, Integration, and Platform Engineering ecosystems.
• Drive architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and platform transformation initiatives.
• Establish governance, security, resilience, scalability, and cost‑optimization frameworks.
• Lead Snowflake architecture covering security, governance, RBAC, data sharing, performance optimization, and multi‑environment strategy.
• Define enterprise data platform standards and operational best practices.
• Guide warehouse sizing, workload management, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Design event‑driven architecture using Confluent Cloud.
• Define topic governance, schema management, security controls, HA/DR, and cluster strategy.
• Establish enterprise integration patterns using Kafka, Kafka Connect, APIs, and streaming architectures.
• Define and implement CI/CD standards using GitHub Actions.
• Drive Infrastructure‑as‑Code, automation, release governance, and quality gates.
• Establish platform engineering practices supporting continuous delivery and automation.
• Define Data Mesh principles, domain ownership models, governance, metadata management, and interoperability standards.
• Establish integration architecture across Snowflake, Kafka, cloud platforms, APIs, ETL/ELT, and downstream systems.
• Collaborate with business and engineering teams to enable scalable data products

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud

Data platforms

Integration

Stakeholder management

Customer-facing

Agile delivery

Tools

Snowflake

Confluent Cloud

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Fivetran

AKS

Kubernetes

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Job description

Infosys Limited is seeking a seasoned Platform Architect to lead enterprise-scale data and integration platforms across Snowflake, Confluent Cloud, Azure, and Kubernetes. You will define standards, governance, and modernization roadmaps, while guiding hands‑on architecture work and ensuring scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient implementations.

The role demands deep cloud experience across major platforms, strong stakeholder engagement, and a track record of delivering large multi‑technology