Senior Data Architect – Pre-Sales

Programmers.io; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers.io is seeking a Senior Data Architect with strong Pre-Sales and Data Modernization experience. The role involves engaging with customers to understand business and technology challenges, defining data-driven solutions, and developing proposals/SOWs.

You will work closely with Sales to shape and close opportunities, leading large-scale modernization programs from strategy to execution. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Data

Qualifications

• 14-18 years of experience in Data Architecture / Data Engineering / Data Consulting / Solution Architecture.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand business and technology challenges.
• Define data-driven solutions and outline architectures that address gaps.
• Develop proposals/SOWs and collaborate with Sales to shape opportunities.
• Lead large-scale Data Modernization programs from strategy through execution.

Skills

Data Architecture

Pre-Sales

Solution Architecture

Data Modernization

Data Governance

Communication

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Azure SQL

OneLake

Dataflows Gen2

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Tableau

Qlik

dbt

Python

Spark

Scala

Job description

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

• 14-18 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 to architecture to 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.