Senior Technical Data Architect (Telco or Banking)

Senior Technical Data Architect

We are looking for a Senior Technical Data Architect to own the technical data architecture end to end, defining how data is ingested, stored, processed, served, and governed across the data platform.

The role is responsible for setting the technical standards and architectural direction that data engineering teams build against, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, data quality, and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own theend-to-end data platform architectureand define technical standards for data engineering teams.
• Design and implementbatch and real-time/streaming data architectures.
• DefineLakehouse architecture, open table formats, and query engine solutions.
• Designreal-time data serving and OLAPsolutions.
• Establish standards forETL pipelines, schema evolution, data quality, data lineage, and access control.
• Design scalable, cost-effective, andmulti-tenant data platforms.
• Work with self-managed and on-premises infrastructure.
• Collaborate with data engineering and technical teams to ensure architecture standards are properly implemented.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experiencein Data Architecture / Data Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• Data Architecture & Data Warehousing
• ETL
• Apache Spark
• Apache Kafka
• Apache Airflow
• Lakehouse Architecture
• SQL
• Strong understanding ofbatch and streaming processing.
• Experience withopen table formats and query engines.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, lineage, quality, and access control.
• Experience designing systems forscale, cost optimization, and multi-tenancy.
• Telco or Banking experience is mandatory.

Nice to Have

• Experience withData Mesh or Data Product operating models.
• Experience supportingmultiple client deployments of the same data platform.