Role Summary

Looking for a Senior Data Architect with strong Pre-Sales + Data Modernization experience who can engage with customers, understand business/technology challenges, define solutions, develop proposals/SOWs, and work closely with Sales to shape and close opportunities. The candidate should have experience leading large-scale Data Modernization programs from strategy and assessment through architecture and execution.

Must Have

- 14–18 years of experience in Data Architecture / Data Engineering / Data Consulting / Solution Architecture.
- Strong Pre-Sales / Solution Consulting experience in a customer-facing role.
- Proven experience in large-scale Data Modernization / Data Transformation programs from strategy → architecture → implementation/execution.
- Ability to conduct customer discovery, understand business/technology challenges and identify gaps.
- Ability to translate customer challenges into data strategy, target architecture and technology solutions.
- Solid experience creating RFP/RFI responses, technical proposals, SOWs, effort estimates and solution presentations.
- Experience working closely with Sales/Business Development to qualify,



shape and close opportunities/deals.
- Strong expertise in Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes/Lakehouses, ETL/ELT and Data Integration.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Services.
- Experience with Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Azure SQL, OneLake/Data Factory/Dataflows Gen2.
- Strong understanding of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage and Security.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage senior customer stakeholders and executives.

Good to Have

- Experience in legacy-to-cloud data modernization/migration programs.
- Experience across AWS / GCP in addition to Azure.
- Experience with Power BI / Tableau / Qlik.
- Knowledge of dbt, ER/Studio, Python, Spark or Scala.
- Experience developing reference architectures, accelerators and reusable solution frameworks.
- Consulting / System Integration / IT Services industry experience.
- Experience with solution estimation, delivery models and commercial/deal shaping.

📌 Senior Data Architect – Pre-Sales (India)
🏢 Programmers.io
📍 India