About Persistent

We are an AI-led platform-driven Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate whats next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world including 18 of the Fortune 50 companies 7 of the 10 top US banks 9 of the 10 technology companies and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Our disruptors mindset commitment to client success and agility to thrive in the dynamic workplace have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum. Persistent has been recognized across top industry platforms for innovation leadership and inclusion. We have delivered 26sequential quarters of growth with $487.6M in Q2 FY27 revenue up 7.8% Q-o-Q and 20.0% Y-o-Y. Our 29500global team members located in 21 countries have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries. We received five awards at the ISG (Information Services Group) Provider Lens Awards 2026 and for the second year in a row were awarded the Growth Honor of the Year at the Everest Group Elevate 2026.

About Position:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Architect with 10 to 16 years of experience in designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud data platforms. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Snowflake AWS ETL/ELT frameworks data warehousing data lakes and cloud-native architectures. This role requires strong architectural leadership to drive data modernization migration governance integration and analytics initiatives while delivering scalable secure and cost-optimized data solutions.

- Role: Senior Data Architect - Snowflake & AWS
- Location: Pune
- Experience: 10 to 16 Years
- Job Type: Full-Time Employment

What Youll Do:

- Design end-to-end cloud data architectures leveraging Snowflake AWS and modern data platform technologies.
- Define architecture standards and implementation strategies for Data Warehouses Data Lakes Lakehouse platforms and analytics ecosystems.
- Architect scalable and resilient ETL/ELT pipelines supporting batch near real-time and real-time data processing workloads.
- Lead modernization and migration initiatives from legacy and on-premises systems to Snowflake on AWS.




- Design Snowflake environments including databases schemas virtual warehouses security models resource monitors and workload management strategies.
- Build data ingestion and integration frameworks using AWS services such as S3 Glue Lambda DMS Kinesis and other cloud-native technologies.
- Define enterprise data modeling standards metadata strategies data governance frameworks and integration patterns.
- Optimize Snowflake environments for performance scalability concurrency reliability and cost efficiency.
- Establish security compliance and governance standards including RBAC encryption masking policies auditing and access management.
- Define CI/CD automation deployment monitoring and operational best practices for enterprise data platforms.
- Partner with business stakeholders data engineers architects security teams and cloud teams to convert business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Conduct architecture reviews technology assessments and solution design workshops.
- Provide technical leadership mentoring and guidance to Data Engineering and Analytics teams.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance scalability integration and platform architecture challenges.
- Drive adoption of best practices across cloud data engineering and enterprise data management initiatives.

Expertise Youll Bring:

- 10 to 16 years of overall IT experience with significant experience in Data Architecture Cloud Data Platforms and Enterprise Analytics solutions.
- Extensive hands-on expertise in designing and implementing Snowflake-based data architectures.
- Strong experience with Snowflake components including databases schemas virtual warehouses RBAC Snowpipe Streams & Tasks Secure Data Sharing and Time Travel.
- Deep understanding of AWS cloud services including Amazon S3 AWS Glue Lambda IAM KMS DMS CloudWatch Kinesis and related data platform services.
- Proven experience architecting enterprise-scale ETL/ELT frameworks data ingestion processes and integration solutions.




- Strong expertise in Data Warehousing Data Lakes Lakehouse architectures and analytical data platforms.
- Proficiency in data modeling techniques including dimensional modeling star schema snowflake schema and enterprise data architecture principles.
- Experience with structured semi-structured and unstructured data processing across large-scale environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud security governance compliance data privacy and access management frameworks.
- Expertise in Snowflake performance tuning query optimization workload management storage optimization and cloud cost management.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines DevOps practices infrastructure automation and data platform monitoring strategies.
- Strong understanding of modern cloud-native architecture patterns and scalable distributed systems.
- Excellent stakeholder management architecture governance communication and presentation skills.
- Proven ability to lead technical discussions influence architecture decisions and guide engineering teams across large transformation programs.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
- Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties flexible work hours and Long Service awards
- Annual health check-ups
- Insurance coverage: group term life personal accident and Mediclaim hospitalization for self spouse two children and parents

Values-Driven People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:

Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals including those with disabilities and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

- We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
- Our office is accessibility-friendly with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
- If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment

Lets unleash your full potential at Persistent- is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.

Required Experience:

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