Meet the Team
Be part of the Cisco IT Data team, where technology, innovation, and collaboration drive real business value. Our team is at the forefront of designing and delivering scalable, secure, and advanced solutions that enable data-driven decision-making for Cisco's global business. We believe in a culture of curiosity, creativity, and continuous learning, where team members are empowered to experiment and bring new ideas to life.
As a Data Architect, you will be the senior technical authority responsible for defining the architecture, standards, and strategic direction of Cisco's enterprise data platforms. You will design scalable, secure, and future-ready data architectures that power advanced analytics, machine learning, and real-time data products. Partnering with engineering, analytics, and business leaders, your designs will directly shape how Cisco stores, governs, integrates, and unlocks value from data across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities
Define and own the enterprise data architecture vision, standards, and multi-year roadmap across ingestion, storage,



transformation, discovery, and governance.
Design scalable, secure, and highly available data architectures—including data lakes, lakehouses, data warehouses, and real-time streaming systems—leveraging contemporary cloud-native technologies.
Define and lead target-state architecture and migration strategies that modernize legacy data infrastructure onto cloud-native platforms (e.g., GCP, Snowflake) to improve scalability and reduce operational cost.
Establish architectural standards, reference patterns, and best practices for data modeling, integration, metadata management, and platform security across teams.
Establish enterprise data modeling standards and governance/lineage frameworks that improve data quality, discoverability, and compliance across multiple business domains.
Design API- and event-driven integration architectures that enable real-time data access across the enterprise, improving da

📌 Data Architect (Hyderabad)
🏢 Cisco
📍 Hyderabad