Description

Job Description – Data Architect
Role Purpose
The Data Architect will lead the assessment and design of the enterprise data architecture supporting the data security initiative. The role is responsible for understanding current-state data flows, designing target-state data architecture, improving data handling patterns, and minimizing reliance on sensitive identifiers.
Job Summary
The Data Architect will evaluate how data moves across applications, APIs, batch interfaces, integration platforms, data hubs, analytics environments, and downstream consumer systems. The role will identify architectural weaknesses and define contemporary, secure, and scalable patterns that reduce data exposure while supporting business requirements.
Working closely with the Security Solution Architect, the Data Architect will establish future-state architecture principles and help develop a roadmap for implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess current-state data architecture.
- Analyze source-to-target data flows.
- Perform data lineage and dependency analysis.




- Review integration and propagation of sensitive data.
- Evaluate identifier usage and alternatives.
- Design target-state data architecture.
- Define secure integration patterns.
- Recommend data minimization strategies.
- Support governance and architecture workshops.
- Produce architecture standards and recommendations.

Required Technical Skills
- Enterprise Data Architecture
- Data Modeling
- Master Data Management
- Data Lineage & Metadata Management
- API Integration Patterns
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Data Warehousing & Data Lakes
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Data Governance Concepts

Preferred Skills
- Data Mesh
- Lakehouse Architectures
- Data Catalog Tools
- Integration Platforms
- Azure Data Services
- Kafka / Pulsar
- Enterprise Integration Patterns

Experience Required
- 8+ years in enterprise data architecture.
- Experience with complex system integration landscapes.
- Experience with customer and loyalty

📌 Data Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ness Digital Engineering
📍 Bengaluru