Position: Azure Solution Architect-Data & Analytics
Experience: 12+ Years
Location: Chennai, Bangalore
Key Skills: Data & Analytics, Azure Data Engineering, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, Logic Apps and Microsoft Purview
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Technical / Solution Architect to join our dynamic team of data professionals. The ideal candidate will play a key role in architecting, designing and leading the implementation of modern data platforms on cloud platforms, with deep expertise in Azure based implementations. You will be front-ending all the technical discussions with the customer stakeholders and provide the technical guidance and leadership for the implementation team internally.
Key Responsibilities
As the Solution Architect, your key responsibilities will include
- Owning end-to-end solution and technical architecture for data platform implementations on Azure, including cloud environment set-up, networking, data engineering, data storage and management, security, data privacy and access control
- Designing and communicating the data architecture and data management strategy for customer implementations
- Document solution architecture, technical architecture, design documentation (HLD) and relevant artifacts for the customer implementations
- Implement data security and privacy controls including policies, access control using RBAC/ABAC, data classification etc.
- Ensuring the proposed solution meets the applicable regulatory and compliance requirements; specifically for regulated industries like Banking and Healthcare
- Providing technical guidance and reviewing the technical design for delivery artifacts for greenfield implementation projects, data modernization or data migration projects
- Driving technical design walk-throughs and reviews with customer stakeholders
- Driving delivery excellence and productivity with automation and adoption of coding standards and best practices
- Running discovery workshops with business and technical stakeholders for identifying business goals and objectives, and translating business requirements into solution roadmaps and backlogs
- Driving evaluation of technology choices, technical proof-of-concepts and documenting architecture and decision decisions, trade-offs between choices and presenting the same to stakeholders and executives
- Driving competency building in terms of technical mentoring of team members and owning development of tools and solution accelerators
Profile Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in data and analytics, with minimum of 3+ years of experience in technical architecture and / or solution architecture roles on Azure
- Proficiency in Azure stack for data and analytics specifically Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, Logic Apps and Microsoft Purview
- Good understanding and experience in networking and common services on Azure including VNet, private endpoints, logging and monitoring services, Key Vault etc.
- Proven experience in documenting and presenting solution and technical architecture
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience in leading implementation of data engineering / analytics solutions on Azure, from architecture and technical design standpoint
- Experience with implementing data platforms / analytical solutions for Banking customers
- Good understanding and experience in data architecture strategies
- Good understanding and experience in data modeling both relational models and dimensional modeling
- Experience in implementing industry standard models for banking / financial services will be a huge plus
- Understanding of Microsoft Fabric is good to have
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability
Skills: data & analytics,azure data engineering,azure data factory,analytics,technical architecture,data engineering,azure data lake,azure synapse,sql,logic apps
