Solution Architect- Data and AI

Michelin España Portugal SA; Pune District; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Michelin España Portugal SA seeks a seasoned Data and AI Solution Architect to lead end-to-end data architectures and AI deployment strategies. You will design medallion Lakehouse architectures, guide ingestion pipelines, and ensure scalable, secure cloud solutions across Azure and related tools.

You will coach cross-functional teams on best practices, align with product and security goals, and deliver architectures that reduce latency and costs while ensuring GDPR compliance.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years in data architecture, data engineering/data science.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end data and AI solutions across the stack.

Skills

Advanced Python

PySpark

SQL

Databricks

Delta Lake

Spark Structured Streaming

Cloud security & GDPR

MLOps / CI-CD

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Kubernetes

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Spark Structured Streaming

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform/Bicep

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Own architectural decisions (ADRs), reference blueprints, and target-state designs; arbitrate trade-offs on latency, cost, and scalability.

Architect end-to-end data and AI solutions: medallion Lakehouse (Bronze/Silver/Gold) on ADLS Gen2 + Delta Lake, streaming ingestion, ML deployment pipelines.

Optimize large-scale PySpark/Databricks workloads — partitioning, AQE, skew handling, Photon, cluster tuning.

Design data models across PostgreSQL, nowflake (Kimball, Data Vault 2.0, denormalized serving).

Productionize ML/DL models via Azure ML, AKS, Functions; expose FastAPI endpoints for batch and real-time inference.

Enforce security and compliance — Entra ID, Key Vault, PII, Unity Catalog / Purview, GDPR.

Build CI/CD and MLOps pipelines (Azure DevOps, Terraform/Bicep, MLflow); instrument observability.

Data Modeling Architecture/Design must also be done by Data and AI Solution Architect

This typically includes STAR SCHEMA Design, Normalization/Denormalization Data Patterns, etc.

Ability to evaluate and recommend which platform component would be best fit for given requirement.

Implementation of Continuous Architecture

Know how about BI domain + AI domains (NLP, GEN A, RAG, Forecasting, Computer Vision, Agentic AI, LLM) average or above average knowledge of concepts and internal technicalities.

Coach delivery teams, align with Data Science, Product, QA, and Platform leads, and contribute to the CDO's data policy.

Operate hands-on when needed — ingestion, cleansing, validation, repository design, root-cause analysis.

Must-Have

Advanced Python, PySpark, SQL

Expert in Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark Structured Streaming

Proven design of medallion Lakehouse architectures at TB-PB scale

Hands-off PII/GDPR data handling and cloud security

CI/CD & MLOps: Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, Terraform/Bicep, Docker, Kubernetes

Communication Clarity

Produces clear, concise architecture documents, runbooks and presentation materials appropriate to the audience.

Keeping up with industry advances,trends and applies relevant innovations pragmatically.

Risk Awareness & Security Mindset

Recognizing operational, security, privacy and model-risk exposures and designs to mitigate them.

Problem-Solving & Complexity Management

Decomposes ambiguous, large-scale problems into manageable components and pragmatic solutions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Team Enablement

Works effectively across disciplines and empowers teams to deliver.

Stakeholder Management & Influence

Builds trust with business leaders, product owners, legal, security and engineering; influences decisions without direct authority.

Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen

Understands business drivers and shapes AI solutions that deliver measurable value and align with long-term strategy.

Experience

10–15 years in data architecture, data engineering/data science.

Demonstrated delivery of at least one enterprise Lakehouse and one production AI/ML solution.

Nice-to-Have

Data Mesh / federated governance experience