Job Description

12+ years of overall experience in data engineering, data platforms, analytics, or enterprise data architecture, with 5+ years in data platform modernization/cloud data engineering and strong hands-on expertise in Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineering Modernization Architect to lead the transformation of legacy data platforms, ETL pipelines, and data warehouses into contemporary, scalable, cloud-native data platforms. The architect will define the target-state data architecture, modernization strategy, migration roadmap, engineering standards, and reusable frameworks. The role requires a strong combination of architecture, hands-on engineering, cloud technologies, data modelling, migration, performance optimization, and automation. The ideal candidate should have successfully delivered at least two enterprise-scale data engineering modernization projects, involving migration from legacy ETL/data warehouse technologies to platforms such as Databricks and Microsoft Fabric,



One Lake with Azure Data Factory or equivalent orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of legacy data platforms, ETL/ELT processes and data warehouses into modern cloud-based architectures.
• Assess existing data platforms, pipelines, databases, ETL jobs, data models and workloads.
• Define As-Is, To-Be and transition architectures.
• Develop modernization roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and consolidate legacy data pipelines.
• Define reusable modernization patterns and frameworks.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of overall experience in data engineering, data platforms, analytics, or enterprise data architecture.
• 5+ years in data platform modernization/cloud data engineering.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on and architectural expertise in Databricks Lakehouse architecture, PySpark, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables / Lakeflow capabilities, Unity Catalog, Workflows / Jobs, Databri

📌 Data Engineering Modernization Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Kumaran Systems
📍 Chennai