Good to Have Skills :

- Azure Data Certifications / Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Databricks Data Engineer Professional
- Comfortable with Git, DevOps/CI-CD for data, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/ARM) and PowerShell/bash.
- Experience in Power BI, Microsoft Azure operational and monitoring tools including Azure Monitor, App Insights and Log Analytics will be an added advantage.

- Exposure to streaming/real-time architecture, MDM, AI/ML and GenAI enablement on the data platform.

Must Have Skills :

- 10+ years of overall data experience, with proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale data platforms on Azure (Azure Data Factory, Databricks/Spark, Azure Data Lake, Synapse/Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL Database).

- Robust expertise in data modelling (conceptual, logical, physical), Lakehouse/Medallion and Data Warehousing architecture patterns, and advanced SQL.

- Experience defining end-to-end solution architecture, integration patterns, non-functional requirements, performance tuning and cost optimization for cloud data workloads.

- Hands-on with data governance,



security and access control (Unity Catalog / Purview, RBAC, encryption, masking) and platform compliance standards.

- Ability to engage senior stakeholders, run architecture/design reviews and mentor engineering teams.

Job description :

- Define and own the end-to-end Azure data platform architecture, translating business requirements into scalable solution designs and target-state blueprints
- Establish data modelling, ingestion, transformation and integration standards; conduct design/code reviews and guide engineering teams through implementation
- Define observability, performance, reliability and cost-optimization (FinOps) practices for data pipelines and platform workloads
- Drive data governance, security and compliance for the platform, covering cataloguing, lineage, access control and data quality frameworks
- Partner with business and IT stakeholders on roadmap, technology evaluations, effort/cost estimates and architecture governance forums; mentor engineers and build team capability

📌 Azure Data Architect (India)
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📍 India