Role Description
Principal Architect — Data Platform & Lakehouse Who We Look For We are looking for a Principal Architect — Data Platform & Lakehouse to own the technical direction of enterprise data architecture, Apache Iceberg-based lakehouse capabilities, metadata, analytical infrastructure, and document management across the UST FinX platform. This is a senior, hands-on architecture and engineering role — not advisory or governance-only. Your influence comes from designing scalable platforms, building reusable frameworks, defining strong architecture patterns, writing production-grade code, and guiding teams to deliver data infrastructure that is reliable, secure, governed, observable, and usable. You understand that a lakehouse is more than a storage bucket with query access: it requires table-format discipline, catalog architecture, data modeling, schema and partition evolution, metadata management, governance, access control, lifecycle management, performance tuning, and clear ownership of data products. You stay close to implementation — writing Java,
building frameworks, reviewing data contracts, debugging pipelines, and evolving catalog and metadata capabilities. In an AI-assisted development workplace, you apply strong engineering judgment to validate, refine, and sometimes reject generated output, ensuring components meet high standards for correctness, resilience, security, scalability, and maintainability. We value a collaborative, merit-driven culture and expect senior architects to constructively challenge weak designs, simplify complexity, and converge teams on strong reusable patterns. What You Will Do Define and evolve the data platform and lakehouse architecture strategy for UST FinX. Own the technical architecture for Apache Iceberg-based lakehouse capabilities — table design, catalog integration, schema and partition evolution, metadata, compaction, snapshots, retention, performance, and governance. Build reusable patterns, frameworks, and r
📌 Specialist II (Bengaluru)
🏢 UST
📍 Bengaluru