Sr Solution Architect (Data & Analytics Cloud AI)

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Position Summary

Seeking an experienced Solution Architect to provide architecture leadership across enterprise Data & Analytics initiatives. The role will be responsible for defining end-to-end solution architectures establishing technology standards driving cloud data platform modernization and ensuring secure scalable and compliant data solutions. The Solution Architect will work closely with business stakeholders product teams engineers security teams and enterprise architects to deliver strategic data capabilities that support analytics reporting AI/ML and digital transformation objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern end-to-end architecture for Data & Analytics solutions across cloud and hybrid environments.

• Develop architecture blueprints conceptual logical and physical solution designs using enterprise architecture tools such asiServer LeanIX Orbus Infinity or equivalent. Having iServer is plus.

• Lead architecture reviews design governance and solution assessments to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and target-state architecture.

• Design and implement scalable data platforms supporting data ingestion transformation storage governance analytics and AI/ML workloads.

• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into architecture roadmaps and implementation plans.

• Provide technical leadership across multiple DnA initiatives identifying risks dependencies and optimization opportunities.

Required Technical Capabilities

Cloud Data Platforms

• Experience withAWS services including:

  • S3 Redshift Glue Athena Lake Formation

  • Lambda Step Functions

  • IAM KMS Secrets Manager

  • EventBridge and data streaming services

• Exposure withMicrosoft Azure services including:

  • Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

  • Microsoft Fabric

Data Integration & Movement

• Experience designing enterprise-scale ETL/ELT solutions.

• Knowledge of file transfer and integration technologies:

  • Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions

  • API-based integrations (REST SOAP)

  • Event-driven and streaming architectures

• Experience integrating SaaS on-premises and cloud-based applications.

Data Security & Governance

• Expertise in enterprise data security and compliance practices.

• Experience implementing:

  • Data encryption at rest and in transit

  • Key management solutions

  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

  • Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

  • Data masking and tokenization

  • Data classification and retention policies

  • Audit monitoring and compliance controls

• Familiarity with regulatory and governance frameworks such as CCPA HIPAA SOX and internal security standards.

Architecture & Design

• Strong understanding of:

  • Data Lake Lakehouse and Data Warehouse architectures

  • Enterprise Integration Patterns

  • API-first architectures

  • Microservices and event-driven architectures

  • Real-time and batch data processing

  • Data Mesh and Data Fabric concepts

• Experience documenting architecture artifacts capability maps application inventories technology roadmaps and reference architectures.

Architecture Governance & Data strategy

• Experience in presenting complex solution to Architecture Review Board or similar and getting approved.

• Experience in getting Architecture Alignment from various stake holder.

• Experience in simplifying complex data problem and strategy into solution.

• Have understanding of Organization wide data domain data flow like. Customer account products transactions etc and how to make meaningful outcome on data.

• Clear vision and thinking of Data driven decision.

Key AI architecture areas

• AI reference architectures and integration patterns AI application design AI security governance and responsible AI practices

*We are specifically seeking a Solution Architect with data expertise rather than a Data Engineer.

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