Data Architect

Onit; Pune District; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Paid time off

Family leave & adoption

Life & disability insurance

Voluntary benefits

Volunteer day

Job summary

Onit, a leader in AI-powered legal operations, is seeking a Data Architect to own the data-intensive analytics foundation of our platform. In this hands-on role, you will pick the data platform, design the canonical data model, define service contracts, and set performance and multi-tenant guarantees with a close team.

You'll work with engineering, design, product management, and data engineering to translate requirements into scalable architecture, API contracts, and measurable non-functional

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with architecture ownership.
• Experience designing data-intensive applications with large datasets.
• Experience selecting data platforms for analytics workloads with cost/performance basis.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling; familiarity with analytical/columnar stores.
• Experience designing canonical data models feeding multiple sources and product surfaces.
• Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS with structural data isolation.
• Hands-on performance engineering: profile slow queries and set latency budgets.
• Can document decisions with architecture decision records and defend them.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for data-intensive analytics within the product.
• Evaluate and select data platform with documented cost and performance basis.
• Design a canonical data model feeding multiple sources and surfaces.
• Define and publish service contracts and API specifications (contract-first).
• Set and defend latency targets, refresh cadence, and availability requirements.
• Design tenant data isolation enforced structurally, not by convention.
• Write architecture decision records and review designs across the team.
• Translate technical constraints into actionable requirements for product/design.

Skills

Data architecture

SQL & relational modelling

Data platforms for analytics

Multi-tenant SaaS

Performance engineering

API design (contract-first)

AI tooling for design exploration

AWS

Architectural leadership

Tools

AWS

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 & APIs: 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.

Our Commitment to Applicants

We know that not everyone will check every box in a job description. At Onit, we value diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply. You may be exactly who we’re looking for.

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