Data Engineering Modernization Architect

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 modern, 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 modeling,
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.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of legacy
data platforms, ETL/ELT processes and data warehouses into up-to-date
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.

Key Skills Requirement

• Strong hands-on and
architectural expertise in Databricks Lakehouse architecture, PySpark,
Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables / Lakeflow capabilities, Unity Catalog,
Workflows / Jobs, Databricks SQL, Change Data Capture, Schema evolution,
Databricks security and governance, Azure Data Factory ADF pipelines, Copy
activities, Mapping Data Flows, Parameters

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