Data Architect

Onit India; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Paid time off

Family leave

Life & disability insurance

Volunteer day

Flexi benefits

NPS

Job summary

Onit in Pune, India is seeking a Data Architect to own the data-intensive analytics foundation of its enterprise legal operations platform. This hands-on role starts with selecting the data platform, designing the canonical data model, and defining service contracts, working closely with Engineering, Product, and Design.

You'll stay in code, queries, and reviews, setting latency targets, multi-tenant data isolation, and scalable architecture as the product evolves.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering in architect/lead roles.
• Experience designing data-intensive apps with large datasets.
• Experience evaluating data platforms for analytics workloads.
• Strong SQL and data modelling for analytical stores.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for data-intensive analytics in the product.
• Evaluate and select data platform for large-scale queries with documented cost and performance.
• Design canonical data model used by multiple source systems and surfaces.
• Define and publish service contracts and API specifications (contract-first).
• Set latency targets, refresh cadence, and availability requirements.
• Design multi-tenant data isolation and enforce it structurally.
• Write architecture decision records and review designs and code.
• Translate technical constraints for Product and Design teams.

Skills

Software architecture

Data-intensive apps

Analytical workloads

SQL & data modelling

Multi-tenant SaaS

Performance engineering

Contract-first API design

AI tooling familiarity

AWS / Cloud

Leadership & comms

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Copilot

Job description

About Onit

We’re redefining the future of legal operations through the power of AI. Our cutting-edge platform streamlines enterprise legal management, matter management, spend management and contract lifecycle processes, transforming manual workflows into intelligent, automated solutions.

We’re a team of innovators using AI at the core to help legal departments become faster, smarter, and more strategic. As we continue to grow and expand the capabilities of our new AI‑centric platform, we’re looking for bold thinkers and builders who are excited to shape the next chapter of legal tech.

If you're energized by meaningful work, love solving complex problems, and want to help modernize how legal teams operate, we’d love to meet you.

Position Summary

The Data Architect owns the technical foundation of a new data‑intensive benchmarking and analytics capability embedded in Onit's enterprise legal operations platform. This is a hands‑on, engineering‑focused architecture role at the start of a multi‑phase programme, and the work is front‑loaded: within the first quarter, the Data Architect will select the data platform, design the canonical data model that several product surfaces depend on, define the service contracts, and set the performance and multi‑tenant data‑isolation guarantees the team builds against. Working closely with the Lead Engineer, Lead Designer, Product Management, and Data Engineering, this role stays in the code, the query plans, and the review conversations rather than handing designs over a wall.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture Ownership: Own the end-to-end architecture for a data-intensive analytics capability embedded in an existing enterprise product.
• Data Platform Selection: Evaluate and select the data platform for large-scale analytical queries, with a documented cost and performance basis for the decision.
• Canonical Data Model: Design a canonical data model that multiple source systems feed and multiple product surfaces consume, ensuring figures reconcile consistently across every surface.
• Service Contracts & API: Define and publish service contracts and API specifications using a contract-first approach.
• Non-Functional Requirements: Set and defend latency targets, refresh cadence, and availability requirements, and make them measurable rather than aspirational.
• Multi-Tenant Data Isolation: Design tenant data isolation so that it is enforced structurally, not by convention.
• Architecture Decisions & Reviews: Write architecture decision records that explain trade-offs honestly, including what would change the decision, and review designs and code across the team.
• Cross-Functional Translation: Translate technical constraints into terms Product and Design can act on, and translate their requirements back into architecture.

Required Skills

• Typically 10+ years in software engineering, including substantial time in an architect, principal, or staff-level role owning system-level decisions.
• Demonstrable experience designing data-intensive applications: systems where query performance over large datasets is the central problem.
• Experience evaluating and selecting data platforms for large-scale analytical workloads, with a documented cost and performance basis for the decision.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling; practical experience with analytical or columnar data stores and a clear view of when each is appropriate.
• Experience designing canonical data models that multiple source systems feed and multiple product surfaces consume, with figures that reconcile consistently.
• Experience designing and operating multi-tenant SaaS systems, including data isolation enforced structurally rather than by convention.
• Hands-on performance engineering: able to profile a slow query, decompose a latency budget, and define what to measure and at which percentile.
• Writes decisions down clearly (e.g., architecture decision records that explain trade-offs honestly) and can defend them to both engineers and non-engineers.
• Working proficiency with AI tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate design exploration, query analysis, and documentation, with the judgment to critically evaluate AI‑generated output.

Preferred Qualifications

• API design experience with a contract-first mindset.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS), including infrastructure as code.
• Experience retrofitting analytics or reporting capability into an existing transactional product.
• Experience working with incomplete or inconsistent source data, and designing systems that stay trustworthy despite it.
• Background in enterprise B2B SaaS or the legal technology domain.
• Experience with data anonymisation or aggregation where privacy guarantees matter.

Benefits & Perks That Support You

• Health Coverage: Employee and immediate family members.
• Time Away: Flexible paid time off and 10 company paid holidays annually.
• Family Support: Exceptional paid leave for birth parents, non-birth parents, and caregivers. Onit also offers surrogacy and adoption reimbursement.
• Income Protection: 100% employer-paid life and disability insurance.
• Additional Coverage Options: Voluntary benefits including hospital indemnity, critical illness, accident.
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Flexi, NPS.
• Community Engagement: One paid volunteer day each year to give back to the community.

Onit Values

Customer First - Customer success is our success. We deliver value, listen, and act on customer needs.

Purposeful Innovation - Innovation fuels our growth. We harness creativity to solve problems and lead with the intentions and expertise.

Win as One - Teamwork is how we win. We are accountable, act with integrity, and communicate openly.

Intentional Growth - Our people are the difference. We create an environment with compelling work, impactful contributions, and career growth.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.