Job Title
Principal Data Architect – Data Engineering, Gen AI & Pre-Sales
Experience: 15-20 years of IT experience, with a minimum of 5 years specifically focused on pre-sales activities.
Location:
Gurugram or Hyderabad
Reports to: Head of Data Practice
About The Role
We are looking for a Principal Architect who can operate at the intersection of technical delivery and pre-sales solutioning for our Data Engineering practice. You will lead the design of greenfield and brownfield data architectures and large-scale migrations on contemporary cloud-native platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks, deployed on AWS, Azure or GCP, while increasingly bringing Gen AI-driven capabilities — intelligent data pipelines, LLM-powered analytics, and AI-assisted architecture patterns — into both client solutions and proposals. You'll also play a lead role in shaping client pitches, RFP responses, and technical win strategies. This is a dual-mandate role — architecting solutions that get built, and architecting the pitches that win the business in the first place.
Responsibilities
Pre-Sales & Solutioning
Partner with sales and account teams to scope, architect, and win new data engineering and Gen AI opportunities across multiple industries.
Lead technical responses to RFPs/RFIs — solution architecture, technology recommendations, high-level design, and effort/cost estimation across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Design and present solution architectures, reference architectures, and POCs/POVs — including Gen AI use cases such as intelligent data discovery, natural-language analytics, and AI-augmented pipeline automation.
Translate client business problems into compelling, technically sound, and commercially viable proposals, positioning Gen AI as a differentiator where it adds real value.
Own solution narrative and technical storytelling in client-facing pitches, workshops, and architecture review sessions.
Assess competitive positioning and articulate differentiated value of propose
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