Country/Region: IN
- Requisition ID: 36364
- Work Model:
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- Location: INDIA - PUNE - BIRLASOFT OFFICE - HINJAWADI

Title:Sr Lead Architect:
- Description:

Area(s) of responsibility:
We are looking for a highly experienced Data Architect (Grade 7A) to lead the design and delivery of the enterprise Data & Insights platform on Microsoft Azure. The role demands deep expertise in cloud data architecture, data models, data lake/lakehouse, vector-store based RAG systems, GenAI, Agentic AI, and governance using Microsoft Purview.

Roles & Responsibilities
- Architect and design Azure-based data lake/lakehouse platforms, domain data models, and ingestion-to-consumption pipelines.
- Develop conceptual, logical, and physical cloud data models aligned with enterprise standards.
- Architect RAG pipelines including embeddings, chunking, vector stores, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and evaluation.
- Build Agentic AI workflows using LangChain and LangGraph; design tool orchestration, memory, and safety layers.




- Implement governance with Microsoft Purview for cataloging, lineage, PII tagging, and policy enforcement.
- Ensure platform security using Entra ID, private endpoints, VNETs, Key Vault, and encryption controls.
- Lead solution architecture reviews, performance tuning, cost optimization, and NFR engineering.
- Oversee CI/CD (Azure DevOps), IaC (Terraform/Bicep), and observability (Azure Monitor, App Insights).
- Mentor engineering teams and standardize best practices, patterns, and reusable components.

Technical Skills

Mandatory
- Azure Data Platform: ADLS Gen2, Synapse/Serverless SQL, Databricks/Spark, ADF/Synapse Pipelines
- Programming: Python, PySpark, SQL
- GenAI & Agentic AI: RAG architecture, vector stores (Azure Cognitive Search, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant), embeddings, reranking
- Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph
- Data Modeling: Conceptual/logical/physical models, Delta/Parquet patterns, lakehouse modeling
- Data Governance: Micros

📌 Sr Lead Architect (Hinjawadi)
🏢 Birlasoft
📍 Hinjawadi