Lead Data Center Architect (Infrastructure)

Tata Consultancy Services; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,200,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in India seeks an experienced Lead Data Center Architect to design, modernize, and manage enterprise-scale data center infrastructure across compute, storage, virtualization, backup, networking, and disaster recovery.

The role includes driving architecture standards, leading transformations, and ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and seamless integration with security, cloud, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in designing enterprise data center architectures.
• Strong knowledge of virtualization, storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with hybrid cloud integration and security considerations.
• Ability to lead architecture reviews, governance, and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise data center solutions for large-scale environments.
• Lead infrastructure transformation, consolidation, migration, and modernization programs.
• Define architecture standards for servers, storage, virtualization, backup, and DR.
• Design HA, BC, and DR solutions and ensure alignment with security and risk teams.
• Collaborate with security, cloud, networking, and operations teams for seamless integration.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical governance, and infrastructure roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership during design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Drive automation and operational excellence initiatives.
• Support presales, technical assessments, and infrastructure strategy discussions.

Skills

Data Center Architecture

Virtualization

Storage Systems

Backup & Recovery

BC/DR Planning

Monitoring & Capacity

Automation

Hybrid Cloud

Job description

Job Description - Lead Data Center Architect (Infrastructure)

Experience: 10-18 Years

Location: PAN India / Hybrid

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Lead Data Center Architect to design, modernize, and manage enterprise-scale data center infrastructure. The candidate will drive architecture, deployment, optimization, and transformation initiatives across compute, storage, virtualization, backup, networking, and disaster recovery environments while ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and architect enterprise Data Center solutions for large-scale environments.
• Lead infrastructure transformation, consolidation, migration, and modernization programs.
• Define architecture standards for servers, storage, virtualization, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Design High Availability (HA), Business Continuity (BC), and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.
• Evaluate and implement infrastructure technologies, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with security, cloud, networking, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical governance, and infrastructure roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership during solution design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Drive automation and operational excellence initiatives.
• Support presales activities, technical assessments, and infrastructure strategy discussions.

Required Skills

• Strong experience in Data Center Architecture & Infrastructure Design
• Virtualization: VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, Hyper-V
• Storage: EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, Hitachi, IBM Storage
• Backup & Recovery: Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup
• Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Business Continuity Planning
• Infrastructure Monitoring & Capacity Management
• Automation: PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform (preferred)
• Knowledge of Hybrid Cloud integration (Azure/AWS/GCP)