Associate Principal Data Architect

Dyson Institute; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson’s Data Analytics & AI team is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture across warehouses, data lakes and real-time platforms. You will translate business needs into scalable designs, establish governance, and guide transformation programmes with cross-functional teams.

You will collaborate across data, engineering, governance and product domains to align roadmaps, ensure security and cost efficiency, and promote best practices in data architecture globally.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in enterprise data architecture
• Ability to design end-to-end data solutions across warehouses, lakes and real-time platforms
• Strong governance, metadata, lineage, ownership and compliance practices
• Experience leading architecture in large-scale digital transformation projects
• Cloud-based data solutions design with cost and security aware approaches

Responsibilities

• Define and govern Dyson’s enterprise data architecture principles and standards
• Lead architecture of multi-system data solutions across warehouses, lakes and real-time platforms
• Translate business needs into conceptual, logical and physical designs
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership during transformation programmes
• Strengthen data governance, metadata, taxonomy and data lineage practices
• Collaborate with business, data, engineering and governance teams to align roadmaps
• Review designs for security, scalability and cost-effectiveness
• Create architecture artefacts like blueprints and data models
• Mentor architects and engineers to raise architectural capability

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Data governance

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Data Analytics & AI at Dyson

Data and analytics excellence at Dyson is delivered by a diverse and collaborative global community, at the heart of that community is a hub team that enables all others: In Dyson’s Data Analytics team, there has been significant investment into cloud technologies and AI; combined with an expansive scope and no shortage of ambition and momentum, Dyson’s Data Analytics & AI team is recognised throughout the organisation to the highest level as critical to all of Dyson's strategic objectives.

With a ‘one-team’ approach, the global community is on a mission to:

• Evolve existing solutions to stay ahead
• Embed emerging solutions to capitalise on potential benefits
• Deliver conceptualised & future solutions to introduce net-new capability

The Team

As the ‘hub’ team delivering the data, technology and community provision enabling Dyson’s global data and analytics capabilities, Dyson’s Data Analytics & AI team have end-to-end responsibility for data from foundations (DQ, MDM) to management (data platforms, integrations), to value realisation (analytics enablement and delivery) and leveraging AI.

Dyson’s Data Analytics & AI team is a multi-disciplinary, global team providing round-the-clock development and operations - including product and project management, community enablement, governance, data architecture, data engineering, data science, and analytics expertise.

Involved with every aspect of Dyson’s global business - from finance to product development, manufacturing to owner experience – the team is seeking to deliver solutions generating impressive and tangible business value.

About the role

Define, evolve and govern Dyson’s enterprise data architecture principles, standards, reference models and design patterns, ensuring they are practical, scalable and consistently applied across data platforms and solutions.

Lead the architecture of complex, multi-system data solutions across warehouses, lakes, real-time platforms and analytical environments, balancing business value, scalability, security, performance, cost and long-term maintainability.

Translate business objectives and stakeholder needs into conceptual, logical and physical architecture designs, ensuring solutions are actionable, sustainable and aligned to enterprise architecture direction.

Provide hands-on architectural leadership throughout transformation programmes and delivery projects, guiding design decisions, resolving architectural trade-offs and ensuring adherence to agreed standards.

Establish and strengthen data governance, metadata, taxonomy, lineage, ownership and compliance practices so that Dyson’s data assets are reliable, discoverable, secure and responsibly managed.

Partner with business, data, engineering, governance and enterprise architecture teams to align priorities, influence roadmaps and ensure data architecture supports Dyson’s strategic goals.

Review and challenge solution designs to ensure they are robust, secure, scalable, cost-effective and future-ready, while supporting teams in managing risk and technical debt.

Define, monitor and improve architectural approaches for performance engineering and cost optimisation, including the design of efficient ETL/ELT workloads and data platform usage patterns.

Create, maintain and improve architecture artefacts including blueprints, data models, data flows, sequence diagrams, decision records and standards documentation.

Act as a technical leader and change agent for the data architecture practice, promoting collaboration, continuous improvement, documentation quality and practical adoption of best practice.

About you

Proven experience leading data architecture within complex digital transformation, enterprise data platform or multi-domain data programmes.

Strong expertise in enterprise data architecture design, including data warehouses, data lakes, real-time data platforms, semantic layers, data models and cross-system data flows.

Ability to design and articulate end-to-end data solutions that address complex business challenges while aligning with enterprise architecture principles and long-term platform strategy.

Deep understanding of data governance, metadata management, taxonomy, lineage, ownership, stewardship, access controls, compliance and responsible data usage.

Experience architecting scalable, secure and cost-effective cloud-based data solutions, ideally using GCP and modern data warehouse, orchestration, modelling and ingestion technologies.

Confident reviewing technical designs, challenging assumptions and making pragmatic recommendations that balance stakeholder needs, technical constraints, risk and business value.

Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate business objectives into architecture decisions and communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience influencing architecture roadmaps, aligning cross-functional teams and working effectively with data engineering, data governance, product, analytics and enterprise architecture communities.

A continuous improvement mindset, with a track record of improving standards, documentation, engineering practices, architecture governance and knowledge sharing.

Clear ownership, resilience and learning agility, with the ability to operate effectively through ambiguity, lead change and support others in adopting new technologies, frameworks and ways of working.

Experience mentoring architects, engineers or analysts and raising architecture capability across teams through constructive feedback, coaching and practical guidance.

Our Tech Stack

Our modern data stack constantly evolves over time as it strives for best-in-class technical capabilities, scalability and efficiency. We don’t require applicants to have experience with all these technologies, but are always keen to learn and maximise best use of each and as a whole

• Bitbucket for source control management
• Terragrunt for infrastructure as code
• GCP for infrastructure
• BigQuery for data warehousing
• Airflow for orchestration
• dbt (SQL) for data modelling
• Grafana for monitoring
• Fivetran for ingestion

You Should Apply If

• You feel strongly about data and want to empower the organisation with it
• You seek technical excellence and is self-driven and motivated
• You want to build robust, scalable and reliable software and solutions
• You proactively identify challenges and opportunities, and seek to improve the team as a whole

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds.

Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners.

At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education.

Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter.

We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.