Senior Data Architect: Lakehouse & Iceberg Specialist

EXL Talent Acquisition Team; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ExlService Holdings, Inc. is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the design and implementation of next generation data platforms built on object storage and Apache Iceberg.

The role focuses on migrating large-scale data from relational and analytical databases into lakehouse environments. You will drive enterprise data architecture, define scalable ingestion frameworks, optimize Bronze–Silver–Gold data models, ensure metadata management and governance, and collaborate with data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years in Data Architecture/Engineering or modernization.
• 2+ years implementing Apache Iceberg in enterprise environments.
• Experience migrating large-scale datasets to object storage and lakehouse architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise data platforms using Object Storage and Iceberg.
• Develop migration strategies moving data from relational databases and data warehouses into Iceberg-based architectures.
• Design scalable ingestion frameworks for batch, streaming, and near real-time loads into object storage.
• Deep understanding of Iceberg catalogs, namespaces, partitioning, schema evolution, and data lifecycle management.
• Establish best practices for security, metadata management, retention, and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with application teams, data engineers, DBAs, and platform teams to assess migration readiness and modernize legacy workloads.
• Optimize data models for Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers in a lakehouse environment.
• Evaluate data access and performance across Spark, Trino, Databricks, Snowflake, Teradata, or similar engines.
• Guide the conversion of ETL workloads and legacy data integration processes into modern data engineering frameworks.

Skills

Data Architecture

Apache Iceberg

Object Storage

ETL Architectures

Data Modeling

Partitioning

Schema Evolution

Metadata Management

Data Governance

Postgres

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Iceberg catalogs

Spark

Trino

Databricks

Snowflake

Teradata

Hadoop

Job description

ExlService Holdings, Inc. is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the design and implementation of next generation data platforms built on object storage and Apache Iceberg.

The role focuses on migrating large-scale data from relational and analytical databases into lakehouse environments. You will drive enterprise data architecture, define scalable ingestion frameworks, optimize Bronze–Silver–Gold data models, ensure metadata management and governance, and collaborate with data