Enterprise / Data Architect

Program: Data Lakehouse Implementation
Domain: Banking & Financial Services (BFSI)

Role Summary

My client is seeking an experienced Enterprise / Data Architect to lead the design, governance, and evolution of an enterprise-scale Data Lakehouse platform. The role will be responsible for ensuring architectural alignment across Cloudera, Teradata, Informatica, and Denodo ecosystems while driving platform modernization, remediation, governance, and future-state expansion initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and govern the end-to-end Data Lakehouse architecture, covering data ingestion, storage, processing, consumption, and governance.
• Define and enforce target-state architecture, including Medallion (Bronze, Silver, Gold) design principles.
• Ensure seamless integration across Cloudera, Teradata, Informatica, Denodo, and related data platforms.
• Assess existing data architecture, identify gaps, and define remediation and modernization strategies.
• Govern enterprise data models, data standards, aggregation frameworks, and reporting readiness.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security, metadata, lineage, and regulatory requirements.
• Define architecture patterns for scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.
• Lead architecture reviews and collaborate with business, governance, security, and technology stakeholders.

Required Skills:

• Strong experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, and Data Lakehouse modernization.
• Deep understanding of Medallion Architecture and enterprise data modeling frameworks.
• Experience with:
• Cloudera CDP (Spark, Hive, Kafka, HDFS)
• Teradata Vantage
• Informatica BDM / PowerExchange
• Denodo
• Kafka-based data integration
• Strong knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, data quality, security, and governance frameworks.
• Expertise in performance optimization, scalability planning, and resilient architecture design.

Preferred Experience:

• Strong BFSI domain experience with exposure to enterprise banking data models such as FSLDM and FSAS.
• Experience supporting regulatory, audit, and compliance-driven data programs.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale data transformation and modernization initiatives.

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in Enterprise Data Architecture or related leadership roles.
• Experience leading complex enterprise data platform programs in BFSI environments.
• Architecture certifications and advanced data engineering background are advantageous.

*** Only successful candidates will be contacted ***

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