Country/Region: IN
Requisition ID: 36364
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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

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