Data & Information Architect

Yara International; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Remote work options

Generous vacation policy

Job summary

Yara is seeking a seasoned Data & Information Architect to design, build, and optimize data pipelines and products across our enterprise data platform. You will integrate data from SAP and non-SAP sources into a modern cloud-based ecosystem, enabling analytics, AI, reporting, and data-driven decision making.

The ideal candidate brings architecture and engineering excellence, leadership, and a track record of shaping standards across the Enterprise Data Platforms organization while mentoring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Analytics Engineering
• Proven experience leading and scaling teams in a hybrid or outsourced delivery model.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Strong experience with data integration, transformation, and orchestration.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach data engineers, providing technical guidance and supporting professional growth.
• Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and engineering decision-making processes.
• Promote engineering best practices, coding standards, quality assurance, and operational excellence.
• Support planning, estimation, prioritization, and execution of data engineering initiatives and strategic data products.
• Act as a trusted technical leader, balancing business priorities with engineering excellence and long-term platform sustainability.
• Build and maintain data ingestion frameworks from SAP (SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW, and SAP Business Data Cloud) and non-SAP sources.
• Design data models supporting analytics, AI, and operational use cases.
• Implement data quality, monitoring, observability, and operational controls.
• Optimize performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across the platform.
• Build and manage solutions on Microsoft Fabric and/or SAP BDC and/or AWS.
• Implement Lakehouse architectures, medallion patterns, and modern data engineering practices.
• Collaborate with Data Governance teams to ensure compliant and trusted data products.
• Support metadata management, lineage, cataloging, and business glossary initiatives.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Databricks

ETL design

AI data platforms

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT/CS

Tools

Databricks

Boomi

Terraform

AWS

Job description

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world's key challenges - resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change.

About The Unit

Yara Enterprise Information Technology, also known as Enterprise IT or Yara IT, is a network of interconnected teams and departments that deliver and support Yara's global IT services. Together, we provide a wide range of platforms and services that enable Yara’s global operations — including hosting, networking, cybersecurity, application services, and the digital workplace.

About Yara

Yara grows knowledge to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet. Supporting our vision of a world without hunger and a planet respected, we pursue a strategy of sustainable value growth, promoting climate-friendly crop nutrition and zero-emission energy solutions. Yara’s ambition is focused on growing a nature positive food future that creates value for our customers, shareholders and society at large and delivers a more sustainable food value chain.

To achieve our ambition, we have taken the lead in developing digital farming tools for precision farming and work closely with partners throughout the food value chain to improve the efficiency and sustainability of food production. Through our focus on clean ammonia production, we aim to enable the hydrogen economy, driving a green transition of shipping, fertilizer production and other energy intensive industries.

Founded in 1905 to solve the emerging famine in Europe, Yara has established a unique position as the industry’s only global crop nutrition company. We operate an integrated business model with around 17,000 employees and operations in over 60 countries, with a proven track record of strong returns. In 2021, Yara reported revenues of USD 16.6 billion.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach data engineers, providing technical guidance and supporting professional growth.
• Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and engineering decision‑making processes.
• Promote engineering best practices, coding standards, quality assurance, and operational excellence.
• Support planning, estimation, prioritization, and execution of data engineering initiatives and strategic data products.
• Act as a trusted technical leader, balancing business priorities with engineering excellence and long‑term platform sustainability.
• Build and maintain data ingestion frameworks from SAP (SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW, and SAP Business Data Cloud) and non‑SAP sources.
• Design data models supporting analytics, AI, and operational use cases.
• Implement data quality, monitoring, observability, and operational controls.
• Optimize performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across the platform.
• Build and manage solutions on Microsoft Fabric and/or SAP BDC and/or AWS.
• Implement Lakehouse architectures, medallion patterns, and modern data engineering practices.
• Collaborate with Data Governance teams to ensure compliant and trusted data products.
• Support metadata management, lineage, cataloging, and business glossary initiatives.

Profile

We are looking for a highly skilled Data & Information Architect to design, build, and optimize data pipelines and data products across our enterprise data platform. You will play a key role in integrating business‑critical data from SAP and non‑SAP sources into a modern cloud‑based data ecosystem, enabling analytics, AI, reporting, and data‑driven decision‑making across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines strong architecture and engineering expertise with enterprise platform experience, while also providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and helping shape engineering standards and delivery practices across the Enterprise Data Platforms organization.

• Education:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• Working Experience
• 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Analytics Engineering
• Proven experience leading and scaling teams in a hybrid or outsourced delivery model.
• Proven experience designing enterprise‑scale data solutions.
• Strong experience with data integration, transformation, and orchestration.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills.
• Other knowledge
• Boomi Integration Platform experience
• Databricks experience
• Alteryx experience
• Experience with event‑driven and streaming architectures
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep)
• Knowledge of Data Mesh and Data Products
• Experience with AI/ML data platforms
• Leadership & People skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead diverse, cross‑functional teams in a global environment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive change and foster a culture of continuous improvement

Additional Information

Why us?

Innovative Work Environment

At YARA, you’ll be part of a dynamic team. You would be working with a globally dispersed and diverse team. We encourage creativity and out‑of‑the‑box thinking, providing you with the freedom to experiment and innovate.

Career Growth Opportunities

Your professional development is our priority. We offer tailored training programs, mentorship from industry leaders, and clear pathways for advancement. Support for personal development, learning and continuous learning is a priority

Work-Life Balance

We understand the importance of balancing work with personal life. With flexible working hours, remote work options, and a generous vacation policy, you’ll have the time and space to recharge.

Impactful Work

Your work will have a direct impact. Our team’s recent achievements in specific areas demonstrate the meaningful difference we make every day.

Strong Company Values

Our commitment to these values is reflected in our positive work culture, low turnover rates, and the long‑term success of our employees.

Knowledge grows through differences

Yara is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. To deliver on this, Yara has firmly anchored Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) in our business strategy and has more than 400 employees worldwide involved in D&I ambassadors networks.

As part of our recruitment process, where permitted by local law, we may conduct reference and background checks. These checks will only be performed when deemed necessary for the nature of the job. Candidates will be informed by HR before any background checks are initiated.