Database Architect

Tata Consultancy Services; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Chennai seeks a senior Database Architect to design and optimize Azure SQL/SQL Server solutions for transactional, integration, and analytics workloads.

You will define data models, security controls, and scalable architectures, ensuring robust CI/CD and production readiness. The role requires 8–14 years of experience and strong expertise in T‑SQL and data warehousing practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise in Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, and SQL Server architecture, administration, and engineering.
• Database design and modelling, including normalized, dimensional, star/snowflake schemas, facts, dimensions, and slowly changing dimensions.
• Advanced T-SQL, procedures, functions, execution plans, indexing, partitioning, statistics, concurrency analysis, and query optimization.
• Azure Data Factory ETL/ELT architecture, including parameterized pipelines, runtimes, triggers, dependencies, incremental loads, CDC, retries, and recovery.
• Data warehouse and lake integration using ADLS Gen2, Parquet/Delta formats, partitioning, and curated layers.
• Database security with Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, private endpoints, encryption, masking, auditing, Key Vault, and least privilege.
• High availability, backup/restore, disaster recovery, archival, retention, capacity planning, monitoring, and production support.
• Database DevOps with source control, schema versioning, automated deployment, validation, rollback, and controlled promotion across environments.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end database architecture for transactional, integration, reporting, and analytics workloads.
• Define data models, schema standards, keys, constraints, indexing, partitioning, and lifecycle controls.
• Architect scalable Azure SQL and SQL Server solutions with suitable sizing, connectivity, and topology.
• Design reusable Azure Data Factory ETL/ELT frameworks with incremental loads, CDC, reconciliation, recovery, and error handling.
• Drive performance through workload analysis, indexing, query tuning, deadlock resolution, and capacity planning.
• Implement database security and compliance using Entra ID, RBAC, encryption, auditing, and privileged-access controls.
• Define availability, backup, disaster recovery, retention, monitoring, patching, and operational runbooks.
• Lead design reviews, migrations, CI/CD, releases, documentation, and cross-team coordination.

Skills

Azure SQL

SQL Server architecture

T-SQL

Azure Data Factory

Data modelling

ADLS Gen2

Database security

HA/DR

CI/CD

Performance tuning

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Synapse

Databricks

Delta Lake

Purview

DMS/DMA

Power BI

Job description

Greetings from TCS!!!

Role: Database Architect

Experience range: 8-14 Years

Location: Chennai

Must-Have -

• Hands-on expertise in Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, and SQL Server architecture, administration, and engineering.
• Database design and modelling, including normalized, dimensional, star/snowflake schemas, facts, dimensions, and slowly changing dimensions.
• Advanced T-SQL, procedures, functions, execution plans, indexing, partitioning, statistics, concurrency analysis, and query optimization.
• Azure Data Factory ETL/ELT architecture, including parameterized pipelines, runtimes, triggers, dependencies, incremental loads, CDC, retries, and recovery.
• Data warehouse and lake integration using ADLS Gen2, Parquet/Delta formats, partitioning, and curated layers.
• Database security with Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, private endpoints, encryption, masking, auditing, Key Vault, and least privilege.
• High availability, backup/restore, disaster recovery, archival, retention, capacity planning, monitoring, and production support.
• Database DevOps with source control, schema versioning, automated deployment, validation, rollback, and controlled promotion across environments.

Good to Have-

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, Delta Lake, Purview, and Lakehouse patterns.
• Experience in database migration and modernization using Azure DMS, DMA, or similar tools.
• Knowledge of Power BI models, API data access, Redis caching, and event-driven integration.
• Azure data certifications and experience in FinOps, governance, lineage, and security reviews.

Roles & Responsibilities-

1 Design end-to-end database architecture for transactional, integration, reporting, and analytics workloads.

2 Define data models, schema standards, keys, constraints, indexing, partitioning, and lifecycle controls.

3 Architect scalable Azure SQL and SQL Server solutions with suitable sizing, connectivity, and topology.

4 Design reusable Azure Data Factory ETL/ELT frameworks with incremental loads, CDC, reconciliation, recovery, and error handling.

5 Drive performance through workload analysis, indexing, query tuning, deadlock resolution, and capacity planning.

6 Implement database security and compliance using Entra ID, RBAC, encryption, auditing, and privileged-access controls.

7. Define availability, backup, disaster recovery, retention, monitoring, patching, and operational runbooks.

8. Lead design reviews, migrations, CI/CD, releases, documentation, and cross-team coordination.

Mandatory Skills-

-Azure SQL, SQL Server, T-SQL, data modelling, ETL/ELT, Azure Data Factory, data warehousing, ADLS Gen2, performance tuning, HA/DR, security and CI/CD.