Job Title: Data Architect
Years of Exp: 12 to 14 years
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
? Enterprise reference architecture: Create, publish, and maintain the enterprise data platform reference architecture (principles, target-state, standards, patterns, and guardrails) to enable repeatable implementations across teams and operating companies.
? Architecture governance: Lead architecture review forums, document decisions (trade-offs, rationale, and approved patterns), and manage exceptions to ensure consistent adoption and controlled evolution of the architecture.
? Requirements-to-architecture translation: Convert business and technical needs into implementation-ready architecture designs, source-to-target mappings, and technical specifications; partner with BAs/PMs as needed while remaining accountable for the technical stack definition.
? Lakehouse/warehouse design: Define enterprise lake/Lakehouse/warehouse patterns (e.g., medallion/bronze-silver-gold), data product conventions,



and semantic modelling approaches to support governed self-service BI and downstream AI consumption.
? Data modelling standards: Lead data modelling practices (e.g., dimensional, 3NF, Data Vault), define conformed entities and KPI/metric definitions, and establish semantic layer standards for consistent analytics.
? AI/ML enablement: Design data architectures that support AI/ML lifecycles, including feature-ready datasets, training/validation data management, experiment reproducibility, and scalable data feeds for model inference.
? GenAI & unstructured data: Define patterns for unstructured/semi-structured data (documents, images, logs) including extraction, enrichment, indexing, and governance for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge experiences.
? Data governance & quality: Partner with governance teams to define data domains, ownership, stewardship, glossary, lineage, and data quality controls; establish certification/curation processes for authoritative datasets.

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