Data Architect / Technical Lead

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

BETSOL, a US-based enterprise IT services provider with offices in Bengaluru, is seeking a Senior Data Architect. You will design scalable data architectures and lead integrations across platforms to support analytics, compliance and business operations.

The role requires strong data modeling, governance, and security expertise. You will collaborate with engineering, security, and compliance teams to ensure privacy, retention, and access controls, while advancing data platforms and self-service

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is required.
• 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data management.
• Strong hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake) and AWS data services.
• Experience supporting analytics and AI/ML use cases, and data warehousing at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the company’s data architecture, models, and pipelines.
• Design integrations between internal platforms and third-party systems (Salesforce, CX platforms).
• Establish standards for data quality, metadata, lineage, and classification.
• Partner with engineering, security, and compliance teams on privacy, retention, and access control policies.
• Lead the selection and implementation of data platforms.
• Drive adoption of data best practices and support governance.

Skills

Snowflake

AWS Data Services

Data Modeling

Python

Data Governance

Data Quality

Data Security/Compliance

ETL/ELT

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science or related field

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Kafka/Kinesis

Job description

Engineering the AI-powered enterprise. With AI and cloud-native solutions, BETSOL accelerates cloud transformation for enterprises across 17+ countries. BETSOL holds several engineering patents, and is recognized with industry awards. BETSOL maintains a net promoter score that is 2x the industry average. BETSOL’s open source backup and recovery product line, Zmanda (Zmanda.com), delivers up to 50% savings in total cost of ownership (TCO) and delivers best-in-class performance. BETSOL Global IT Services (BETSOL.com) builds and supports end-to-end enterprise solutions, reducing time-to-market for customers. BETSOL offices are set against the vibrant backdrops of Broomfield, Colorado and Bangalore, India. We take pride in being an employee-centric organization, offering comprehensive health insurance, competitive salaries, 401K, volunteer programs, and scholarship opportunities. Office amenities include a fitness center, cafe, and recreational facilities. Learn more at betsol.com

Job Description

About the Role:

The Senior Data Architect is responsible for designing and implementing the enterprise data architecture. This role will lead the development of scalable, secure, and integrated data platforms to support analytics, compliance, and business operations.

Responsibilities:

• Define and implement the company’s data architecture, models, and pipelines.
• Design integrations between internal platforms and third-party systems (Salesforce, CX platforms, etc.).
• Establish standards for data quality, metadata, lineage, and classification
• Partner with engineering, security, and compliance teams to align on privacy, retention, and access control policies.
• Lead the selection and implementation of data platforms.
• Drive adoption of data best practices across teams and support data governance efforts.
• Support data risk reviews, vendor onboarding, and audit readiness from a technical standpoint.
• Maintain data platforms and architecture performance
• Support existing data workflows, and integrations
• Respond to data-related incidents and ensure data reliability
• Improve data models to support business growth and analytics
• Optimize data pipelines, quality, and availability
• Expand self-service data capabilities for stakeholders
• Define future-state architecture to enable digital transformation
• Lead data strategy to support AI/ML, automation and advanced analytics
• Integrate data across new platforms, partners, or business models

Looking For:

• 8+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data management.

Mandatory Skills:

A. Technical Skills:

• Demonstratesstrong andeffective communication with clients and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong hands-on experience withmodern cloud data platforms (Snowflake)
• Strong hands-on experience in AWS data engineering services (e.g., S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda)
• Familiarity with privacy and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, PCIDSS.
• Strong understanding of data modeling (OLTP/OLAP), APIs, and system integration.
• Proven experience owning or leading enterprise data architecture(not just pipeline development or BI)
• Experience supporting analytics, AI/ML use cases, and data warehousing at
• scale.
• AdvancedproficiencyinPython for data engineering and automation
• Experience withdata governance concepts (quality, lineage, metadata, classification)

B. Soft Skills

• Strong communication skills with clients, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple functions
• Demonstrated leadership skills in a cross-functional environment
• Ability to drive and influence enterprise-level data strategy and architecture decisions

Good to Have Skills:

• Experience withData Vault 2.0 or other enterprise modeling approaches (Kimball, Inmon, 3NF, etc.)
• Experience withDBT or similar transformation tools (Coalesce,Madillion,Dataform, or native SQL-based transformations)
• Experience withKafka or equivalent streaming platforms (Kinesis, MSK, Confluent, etc.)
• Experience buildingdata applications or self-service tools (Streamlitor similar frameworks)
• Strong experience with BI tools; Tableau, Looker, Power BI
• AWS Certified Data Analytics – _Specialty
• TOGAF (for architecture frameworks)
• CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

Additional Information

• Work is for a US-based client
• This role requiresUS Eastern Time working hours: Monday-Friday(6PM IST - 3 AM IST) implying standard US-EST business hours (with reasonable flexibility for incident response and global coordination).