Job Requirements

Data Architect

Experience: 15+ years

Role Type: Enterprise Data Architecture

Role Overview The Data Architect will define and implement the enterprise data architecture supporting regulatory data, data products, analytics, AI, MDM, and reporting. The role will ensure that data platforms are scalable, secure, governed, interoperable, and aligned with business and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

- Define target-state data architecture for regulatory and enterprise data platforms.
- Design data lakes, lakehouses, data warehouses, data products, analytical models, and data integration patterns.
- Define conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
- Establish architecture patterns for batch, real-time, API-led, event-driven, and CDC data integration.
- Design data domains, data products, data contracts, metadata structures, and interoperability frameworks.
- Support integration across RIM platforms, MDM platforms, data warehouses, cloud platforms, and reporting solutions.
- Define data security, access control, encryption, retention, privacy, and auditability requirements.
- Work with Data Engineering, Regulatory Data, MDM, AI, Security, and Platform teams.
- Define architecture standards for data quality, lineage, observability,



performance, and cost optimisation.
- Support data migration, legacy platform modernisation, and decommissioning initiatives.
- Review solution designs, technical specifications, implementation plans, and architecture decisions.
- Ensure alignment with GxP, data integrity, privacy, and enterprise architecture standards.

Required Skills And Experience

- 15+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise technology.
- Proven experience designing contemporary cloud data platforms and data products.
- Strong expertise in Snowflake, dbt, Databricks, AWS, Azure, data lakes, lakehouses, and cloud data warehouses.
- Strong knowledge of data modelling, data integration, ETL/ELT, APIs, CDC, metadata, lineage, and data governance.
- Experience designing platforms for regulated or pharmaceutical environments.
- Knowledge of MDM, regulatory data, AI/analytics, and enterprise reporting architectures.
- Strong understanding of security, privacy, access control, and non-functional requirements.
- Excellent stakeholder management, technical documentation, and architecture leadership skills.

Work Experience 10-15Years

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