Position Title- Solution Architect - AI and Data
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- Own architectural decisions (ADRs), reference blueprints, and target-state designs; arbitrate trade-offs on latency, cost, and scalability.
- Architect end-to-end data and AI solutions: medallion Lakehouse (Bronze/Silver/Gold) on ADLS Gen2 + Delta Lake, streaming ingestion, ML deployment pipelines.
- Optimize large-scale PySpark/Databricks workloads partitioning, AQE, skew handling, Photon, cluster tuning.
- Design data models across PostgreSQL, nowflake (Kimball, Data Vault 2.0, denormalized serving).
- Productionize ML/DL models via Azure ML, AKS, Functions; expose FastAPI endpoints for batch and real-time inference.
- Enforce security and compliance Entra ID, Key Vault, PII, Unity Catalog / Purview, GDPR.
- Build CI/CD and MLOps pipelines (Azure DevOps, Terraform/Bicep, MLflow); instrument observability.
- Data Modeling Architecture/Design must also be done by Data and AI Solution Architect
- This typically includes STAR SCHEMA Design, Normalization/Denormalization Data Patterns, etc.
- Ability to evaluate and recommend which platform component would be best fit for given requirement.
- Example: Decide between Postgres Db/Mongo Db, Decide between ODAP/One System Platform, etc.
- Implementation of Continuous Architecture
- Know how about BI domain + AI domains (NLP, GEN A, RAG, Forecasting, Computer Vision, Agentic AI, LLM) average or above average knowledge of concepts and internal technicalities.
- Coach delivery teams, align with Data Science, Product, QA, and Platform leads, and contribute to the CDO's data policy.
- Operate hands-on when needed ingestion, cleansing, validation, repository design, root-cause analysis.
What You Bring Must-Have
- Advanced Python, PySpark, SQL
- Expert in Databricks, Delta Lake,
Spark Structured Streaming
- Robust Azure stack: ADLS Gen2, ADF, Azure ML, AKS, Event Hubs, Key Vault
- Proven design of medallion Lakehouse architectures at TBPB scale
- Deep DB expertise: PostgreSQL, Synapse, Snowflake, ADLS
- ML/DL fluency: scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLflow
- Hands-on PII/GDPR data handling and cloud security
- CI/CD & MLOps: Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, Terraform/Bicep, Docker, Kubernetes
Nice-to-Have
- Azure OpenAI, AI Search, RAG, vector databases
- IoT ingestion patterns
- Data Mesh / federated governance experience
Behavioural Competencies :
- Communication Clarity
- Produces clear, concise architecture documents, runbooks and presentation materials appropriate to the audience.
- Continuous Learning & Curiosity
- Keeping up with industry advances,trends and applies relevant innovations pragmatically.
- Risk Awareness & Security Mindset
- Recognizing operational, security, privacy and model-risk exposures and designs to mitigate them.
- Problem-Solving & Complexity Management
- Decomposes ambiguous, large-scale problems into manageable components and pragmatic solutions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Team Enablement
- Works effectively across disciplines and empowers teams to deliver.
- Stakeholder Management & Influence
- Builds trust with business leaders, product owners, legal, security and engineering; influences decisions without direct authority.
- Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen
- Understands business drivers and shapes AI solutions that deliver measurable value and align with long-term strategy.
- Experience
- 10–15 years in data architecture, data engineering/data science.
- Demonstrated delivery of at least one enterprise Lakehouse and one production AI/ML solution.
📌 Solution Architect (Pune)
🏢 Michelin
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