Senior Airflow Platform Architect

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive.

Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Health

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Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to design, operate, and scale our workflow orchestration platform centered on Apache Airflow. You will own the Airflow control plane, developer experience, and security, while evaluating complementary schedulers and building automation across data teams in Plano, TX.

Key responsibilities include operating Airflow on Kubernetes, driving GitOps-based CI/CD for environments, and mentoring engineers to advance platform

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years building/operating data or platform systems.
• 3+ years running Airflow in production at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the Airflow control plane and developer experience end-to-end—architecture, automation, security, observability, and reliability.
• Build automation infrastructure and partner across data, trading, and engineering teams to deliver mission-critical pipelines at scale.
• Architect, deploy, and operate production-grade Airflow on Kubernetes with upgrades, capacity planning, HA, security, and performance tuning.
• Operate a multi-scheduler ecosystem and provide a unified developer experience across schedulers.
• Implement comprehensive observability including metrics, dashboards, tracing, SLA/latency monitoring, alerting, and runbook automation.
• Lead incident response, runbooks, and enterprise-scale reliability improvements.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to platform roadmap and standards.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to design, operate, and scale our workflow orchestration platform centered on Apache Airflow. You will own the Airflow control plane, developer experience, and security, while evaluating complementary schedulers and building automation across data teams in Plano, TX.

Key responsibilities include operating Airflow on Kubernetes, driving GitOps-based CI/CD for environments, and mentoring engineers to advance platform