Enterprise Data & AI Platform Architect

Persistent Systems Limited; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Accessible, ergonomic office

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Persistent Systems Limited is seeking a highly experienced Enterprise Architect to define and drive the enterprise technology strategy across data platforms, cloud, and AI initiatives. The role collaborates with executives, engineering teams, and customers to architect scalable, secure platforms that maximize business value and drive modernization.

The ideal candidate brings 12–16 years of leadership in EA/Cloud/Data architectures, with hands-on expertise in Databricks, Snowflake, Hadoop, and

Qualifications

• 12 to 16 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture or Cloud Architecture.
• Extensive experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Strong expertise in Databricks Lakehouse architecture and implementation.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake enterprise data platforms.
• Deep knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem technologies including HDFS, Hive, Spark, and YARN.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform services.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise-wide architecture standards, reference architectures, technology blueprints, and roadmap strategies.
• Lead architecture governance, solution reviews, and enterprise technology decision-making processes.
• Design scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-optimized enterprise platforms.
• Drive cloud adoption, platform modernization, and enterprise engineering programs.
• Architect enterprise data platforms using Databricks, Snowflake, Hadoop, Cloudera, and cloud-native services.
• Design modern Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric architectures.
• Establish data governance, metadata management, lineage, cataloging, and security frameworks.
• Architect large-scale ETL/ELT frameworks supporting batch and real-time workloads.
• Define enterprise data pipelines and integration patterns using Spark, PySpark, Hadoop ecosystem tech, and cloud-native services.
• Establish integration patterns leveraging REST, GraphQL, messaging systems, and streaming platforms.
• Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives.

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Hadoop

Spark

PySpark

Kafka

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Persistent Systems Limited is seeking a highly experienced Enterprise Architect to define and drive the enterprise technology strategy across data platforms, cloud, and AI initiatives. The role collaborates with executives, engineering teams, and customers to architect scalable, secure platforms that maximize business value and drive modernization.

The ideal candidate brings 12–16 years of leadership in EA/Cloud/Data architectures, with hands-on expertise in Databricks, Snowflake, Hadoop, and