This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 3000000 - Rs 4500000 (ie INR 30 - 45 LPA)

Min Experience: 10+ years

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
JobType: full-time

We are seeking an experienced Senior Architect to define and own the architectural patterns for a modern enterprise data ingestion and integration platform. The role will focus on designing scalable batch and streaming frameworks that enable reliable, governed, and high-performance movement of data from source systems into a cloud-based Lakehouse setting.

You will work across architecture, engineering, data platform, governance, and SRE teams to establish technical standards, drive platform modernization, and ensure end-to-end architectural consistency. This role offers an opportunity to influence large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native data platforms, real-time streaming, and emerging AI-driven data capabilities.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership




- Define and own reference architectures for enterprise-scale batch and streaming data ingestion frameworks.
- Design scalable, resilient, and high-throughput architectures for moving data from source systems into modern Lakehouse platforms.
- Establish technical standards and architectural patterns for event-driven and near real-time data pipelines.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend appropriate platform investments and modernization strategies.
- Lead architecture reviews, design discussions, technical evaluations, and architecture governance processes.
- Make critical architectural decisions while balancing scalability, reliability, performance, security, cost, and maintainability.
- Mentor engineers and architects and help raise the overall technical and architectural maturity of the organization.

Data Platform Architecture
- Design and evolve modern Lakehouse architectures for enterprise data platforms.
- Define patterns around Delta Lake, data products, metadata, gov

📌 Senior Architect (Hyderabad)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Hyderabad