Role Summary

The technical anchor of the engagement. Owns the end-to-end target-state architecture the medallion designs the silver/gold layer strategy and the narrative that ties platform capability decisions together into a single coherent roadmap and white paper.

Key Responsibilities
- Lead the current-state architecture review of Snowflake SAP integration and the bronze/raw ingestion layer.
- Design the target-state medallion architecture including silver conformance standards and gold data-product patterns.
- Streams & Tasks, Energetic Tables (for automating silver-layer refresh without hand-rolled orchestration)
- Snowpark (Python/Java/Scala) for transformation logic embedded in-platform
- Snowflake Cortex (LLM functions, Cortex Search/vector embeddings)- the architect needs to know how gold products get consumed by RAG pipelines or agents
- Time Travel, zero-copy cloning, secure data sharing used in the reference-pattern build and in designing non-disruptive silver/gold rollout
- Should be capable enough to evaluate the pattern (SAP CDC approaches:



SLT (SAP Landscape Transformation), SAP Datasphere/BW connectors, ODP-based extraction, or third-party CDC tools (Qlik Replicate, HVR/Fivetran)) that fits customers actual SAP landscape
- dbt (or Coalesce/Matillion) for silver/gold transformation pipelines
- Azure Data Factory or Airflow for cross-system orchestration
- Facilitate architecture and whiteboarding workshops with Clients data architecture and platform stakeholders.
- Own the technical narrative of the white paper and roadmap ensuring consistency across all workstreams' inputs.
- Direct-line collaborate with the Cloud & Platform Architect and Governance/MDM Consultant to keep platform-capability recommendations coherent.
- Guide the reference-pattern build for the 1–2 priority domains from an architecture st and point.

Required Experience & Skills
- 12+ years in data architecture including at least one full lifecycle as "head of data platform/data lake

📌 Lead Enterprise Data Architect (Chennai)
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