Platform Architect: Data & Streaming Modernization

Infosys; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Infosys is seeking an experienced Platform Architect to lead enterprise-scale Data and Integration Platforms across Snowflake, Confluent Cloud Kafka, AKS, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Data Mesh. You will shape platform strategy, set architectural standards, and drive modernization initiatives while ensuring security and governance across cloud environments.

The role requires hands-on guidance, strong stakeholder engagement, and a track record of delivering scalable, resilient data

Qualifications

• Senior-level platform engineering experience leading enterprise-scale data/integration platforms.
• Proven track record with multi-technology cloud platforms and data ecosystems.
• Strong governance, security, cost-optimisation, and performance tuning knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise platform architecture, standards, and guardrails.
• Build modernization roadmaps for data, streaming, integration, and platform engineering.
• Lead architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and platform transformations.
• Establish governance, security, resilience, scalability, and cost-control frameworks.
• Lead Snowflake architecture covering security, RBAC, data sharing, and multi-environment strategy.
• Define enterprise data platform standards and operational best practices.
• Guide warehouse sizing, workload management, and performance optimization.
• Design event-driven architecture using Confluent Cloud and Kafka.
• Define topic governance, schema management, security controls, HA/DR, and cluster strategy.
• Establish platform integration patterns using Kafka, APIs, and streaming architectures.
• Define CI/CD standards using GitHub Actions and IaC practices.
• 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, governance, and metadata management.

Skills

Snowflake

Confluent Kafka

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Data Mesh

Data Governance

Security

Observability

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

DevOps automation

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Infosys is seeking an experienced Platform Architect to lead enterprise-scale Data and Integration Platforms across Snowflake, Confluent Cloud Kafka, AKS, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Data Mesh. You will shape platform strategy, set architectural standards, and drive modernization initiatives while ensuring security and governance across cloud environments.

The role requires hands-on guidance, strong stakeholder engagement, and a track record of delivering scalable, resilient data