Job Title: Data Solution Architect – Air-Gapped On-Premise (Data Warehouse / Data Lake / Lakehouse)
Company: Cloudstrats
Location: [Delhi] · [On-site]
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience: [10+] years

About the Role
We're looking for a seasoned Data Solution Architect to design and lead secure, fully on-premise data platforms in air-gapped (disconnected) environments. You'll architect ETL, data warehouse, data lake and lakehouse, advanced analytics and dashboard solutions that run with no internet or cloud dependency. The role suits someone who enjoys building solid platforms under strict security, compliance and change-control constraints, for clients in sectors such as government, defense, BFSI, energy and critical infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities
• Define end-to-end on-premise data architecture and roadmaps across ingestion, storage, processing, governance, analytics and visualization layers, all within air-gapped networks
• Design enterprise data warehouses (Kimball, Inmon, Data Vault 2.0) on self-hosted platforms such as PostgreSQL, Greenplum, ClickHouse, Oracle,



SQL Server, Teradata or Vertica
• Architect on-premise data lakes and lakehouses using object storage (MinIO, Ceph, HDFS), open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi), catalogs (Hive Metastore, Nessie) and query/processing engines (Apache Spark, Trino/Presto, Dremio, Flink)
• Design batch and streaming pipelines using open-source and self-hosted tools such as Talend, Pentaho/Apache Hop, Apache NiFi, Airflow, dbt Core and Kafka
• Plan secure data ingestion across network boundaries, including cross-domain solutions, data diodes, controlled media transfer, and file validation and scanning workflows
• Set up offline software supply chains: internal package and container mirrors (Nexus, Artifactory, Harbor), offline Python/Maven/OS repositories, and controlled patch and upgrade procedures
• Deploy platforms on bare metal, VMware or on-premise Kubernetes (OpenShift disconnected, RKE2, Ranc

📌 Data Solution Architect (India)
🏢 Cloudstrats
📍 India