Senior Data Architect: Lakehouse & AI-Ready Data

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Incentive

Medical Coverage

Dental & Vision

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Irving, TX is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead data engineering and architecture initiatives. You will own end-to-end data architecture for production-scale platforms, define canonical data models, and establish governance and lineage across ingestion, curation, and publishing.

The role requires hands-on experience with batch and streaming patterns using Spark, Kafka, Airflow or equivalents, and strong Python/SQL skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science degree required
• Strong data modeling for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
• Experience as an architect designing production-scale data platforms

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data architecture turning raw multimodal sensor and operational data into governed, versioned, AI-ready datasets
• Define target-state data architecture, storage layout, zones, partitioning, and retention for high-volume data
• Design canonical data models, schemas, data contracts, and metadata standards
• Establish lineage, dataset versioning, data quality rules, access controls, and governance policies
• Evaluate platform components and set reference patterns for batch and streaming data

Skills

Data architect

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Irving, TX is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead data engineering and architecture initiatives. You will own end-to-end data architecture for production-scale platforms, define canonical data models, and establish governance and lineage across ingestion, curation, and publishing.

The role requires hands-on experience with batch and streaming patterns using Spark, Kafka, Airflow or equivalents, and strong Python/SQL skills.