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.
Robust 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.
Solid expertise in Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes/Lakehouses, ETL/ELT and Data Integration.
Robust 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 Jaipur (India)
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📍 India