Platform Architect: Data & Streaming (Snowflake/Kafka)

Infosys Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Infosys Limited is seeking a highly experienced Platform Architect to lead the architecture, governance, modernization, and operational excellence of enterprise-scale Data and Integration Platforms across Snowflake, Confluent Cloud, Azure Cloud, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Kubernetes, Data Mesh, and broader integration ecosystems.

The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strategic architecture leadership, strong customer engagement skills, and the ability to provide hands‑on

Qualifications

• Several years in Platform Engineering, Cloud, Integration, or Data Platforms.
• Led a large multi-technology data platform on cloud.
• Strong Snowflake or Confluent Kafka expertise.
• Experience with Confluent Cloud, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and event‑driven architecture.
• Hands-on with GitHub Actions CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Cloud experience on Azure/AWS/GCP.
• Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms knowledge.
• Strong stakeholder management and customer-facing experience.

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

Snowflake

Confluent Kafka

Confluent Cloud

Kafka Connect

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

DevOps automation

IaC

Kubernetes

Data Mesh

Data governance

Security compliance

Observability

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Customer-facing

Job description

Infosys Limited is seeking a highly experienced Platform Architect to lead the architecture, governance, modernization, and operational excellence of enterprise-scale Data and Integration Platforms across Snowflake, Confluent Cloud, Azure Cloud, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Kubernetes, Data Mesh, and broader integration ecosystems.

The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strategic architecture leadership, strong customer engagement skills, and the ability to provide hands‑on