Senior Data Architect & Enterprise Platform Leader

Nagarro; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Nagarro benefits

Job summary

Nagarro is seeking an Associate Distinguished Engineer - Senior Data Leader to drive enterprise data strategy and hands-on delivery across global client environments. The role combines leadership with deep technical execution in MDM, semantic layers, and data governance.

The successful candidate will own complex data platform architectures, collaborate with executive stakeholders, and mentor delivery teams while navigating multi-region data estates. Hybrid work arrangement expected.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in data, with the last several in senior architecture or data leadership roles
• At least two MDM programmes taken to production, with genuine accountability for match, merge and survivorship decisions
• At least three enterprise data platform builds delivered end to end at large, complex organisations
• Demonstrable experience designing and landing a semantic layer or shared business ontology
• A track record of making the case for foundation work to executive stakeholders
• Experience in environments where data arrived through acquisition and accretion rather than design
• Snowflake to a deep level — architecture, performance, cost, governance, data sharing
• Reltio in production, or equivalent enterprise MDM (Informatica, Stibo, Tamr)
• Collibra — catalog, lineage, policy, workflow, and adoption strategy
• Soda, Great Expectations or equivalent, implemented as enforced controls in the pipeline
• Cloud proficiency in AWS and Google Cloud, hands-on with a view on when each is right
• Dimensional and data-vault modelling, dbt, Orchestration, Streaming and batch

Responsibilities

• This is not an advisory role with a delivery team attached. It is a hands-on leadership role with a seat at the strategy table.
• Lead data engineering strategy and execution across enterprise data platforms

Skills

Leadership

Strategy

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

Reltio

Informatica

Stibo

Tamr

Collibra

Soda

Great Expectations

AWS

Google Cloud

dbt

Orchestration

Streaming

Batch

Job description

Nagarro is seeking an Associate Distinguished Engineer - Senior Data Leader to drive enterprise data strategy and hands-on delivery across global client environments. The role combines leadership with deep technical execution in MDM, semantic layers, and data governance.

The successful candidate will own complex data platform architectures, collaborate with executive stakeholders, and mentor delivery teams while navigating multi-region data estates. Hybrid work arrangement expected.