Data Architect

Programmers.io; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers.io is seeking a Senior Data Architect with strong Pre-Sales and Data Modernization experience to engage with customers, understand business and technology challenges, define solutions, and develop proposals/SOWs. The role requires leading large-scale Data Modernization programs from strategy to execution.

The candidate will work closely with Sales to shape and close opportunities, translate customer needs into data strategies, and present architectures to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10–20 years of experience in Data Architecture / Data Engineering / Data Consulting / Solution Architecture.
• Strong Pre-Sales / Solution Consulting experience in a customer-facing role.
• Proven experience in large-scale Data Modernization / Data Transformation programs from strategy ? architecture ? implementation/execution.
• Ability to conduct customer discovery, understand business/technology challenges and identify gaps.
• Ability to translate customer challenges into data strategy, target architecture and technology solutions.
• Strong experience creating RFP/RFI responses, technical proposals, SOWs, effort estimates and solution presentations.
• Experience working closely with Sales/Business Development to qualify, shape and close opportunities/deals.
• Strong expertise in Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes/Lakehouses, ETL/ELT and Data Integration.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Services.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Azure SQL, OneLake/Data Factory/Dataflows Gen2.
• Strong understanding of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage and Security.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage senior customer stakeholders and executives.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand business and technology challenges.
• Define data solutions and develop proposals/SOWs.
• Collaborate with Sales to shape and close opportunities.
• Lead large-scale Data Modernization programs from strategy to execution.
• Present architectures to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Data Architecture

Pre-Sales / Solution Consulting

Stakeholder Engagement

Data Modernization

Data Governance & Security

Data Warehousing & Lakes

Communication & Presentation

Architecture Leadership

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Azure SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Qlik

dbt

ER/Studio

Job description

Looking for a Senior Data Architect with strong Pre-Sales + Data Modernization experience who can engage with customers, understand business/technology challenges, define solutions, develop proposals/SOWs, and work closely with Sales to shape and close opportunities. The candidate should have experience leading large-scale Data Modernization programs from strategy and assessment through architecture and execution.

Must Have

• 10–20 years of experience in Data Architecture / Data Engineering / Data Consulting / Solution Architecture.
• Strong Pre-Sales / Solution Consulting experience in a customer-facing role.
• Proven experience in large-scale Data Modernization / Data Transformation programs from strategy ? architecture ? implementation/execution.
• Ability to conduct customer discovery, understand business/technology challenges and identify gaps.
• Ability to translate customer challenges into data strategy, target architecture and technology solutions.
• Strong experience creating RFP/RFI responses, technical proposals, SOWs, effort estimates and solution presentations.
• Experience working closely with Sales/Business Development to qualify, shape and close opportunities/deals.
• Strong expertise in Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes/Lakehouses, ETL/ELT and Data Integration.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Services.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Azure SQL, OneLake/Data Factory/Dataflows Gen2.
• Strong understanding of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage and Security.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage senior customer stakeholders and executives.

Must-Have Skills

Data Modernization, Data & Analytics architecture, and end-to-end solutioning, ideally with exposure to large-scale transformation programs from strategy through execution

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience in legacy-to-cloud data modernization/migration programs.
• Experience across AWS / GCP in addition to Azure.
• Experience with Power BI / Tableau / Qlik.
• Knowledge of dbt, ER/Studio, Python, Spark or Scala.
• Experience developing reference architectures, accelerators and reusable solution frameworks.
• Consulting / System Integration / IT Services industry experience.
• Experience with solution estimation, delivery models and commercial/deal shaping.