Data Architect - Presales

Programmers io; India; Remote; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; 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 challenges, define solutions, and shape opportunities.

You will lead large-scale data modernization programs from strategy through architecture and execution, working with Sales to develop proposals, SOWs, and presentations for senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in Data Architecture / Data Engineering / Data Consulting roles at scale.
• Strong Pre-Sales / Solution Consulting in a customer-facing capacity.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale Data Modernization / Transformation programs.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Data consulting

Solution architecture

Pre-Sales

RFP/RFI responses

Executive communication

Azure Data Services

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Synapse

Data governance

Python

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Power BI

Tableau

dbt

Python

Spark

Scala

ER/Studio

Job description

Role Summary

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

• 1418 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.

Good to Have

• 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.