Senior Technical Data Architect

We are looking for a Senior Technical Data Architect to join our team and take ownership of key areas within our technology and data platform. Owns the technical data architecture end to end: how data lands, is stored, processed, served, and governed. Sets the standards the data engineering team builds against.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and deliver solutions within the scope of the role, from requirements and technical/design decisions through implementation and continuous improvement.

• Work closely with engineering, product, data, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical, scalable solutions.

• Apply strong engineering and/or domain expertise to build reliable, maintainable, and production-ready capabilities.

• Contribute to architecture, standards, documentation, quality, and technical decision-making appropriate to the role.

• Identify performance, scalability, data quality, usability, reliability, or operational risks and address them proactively.

• Collaborate across teams to ensure solutions integrate effectively with existing systems and platform components.

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience.

• Strong hands-on experience with: Data architecture, ETL, Data warehousing, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Lakehouse design, SQL.

• Real ownership of data platform architecture, not pipeline delivery alone.

• Hands on across both batch and streaming processing.

• Lakehouse architecture, open table formats, and query engines.

• Real time serving and OLAP stores.

• Standards for pipelines, schema evolution, data quality, lineage, and access control.

• Self managed and on premises infrastructure rather than managed cloud services.

• Has designed for scale, cost, and multi tenancy and can explain the trade offs.

Domain Requirement:

• Telco or Banking is a must

Preferred Qualifications

• Data mesh or data product operating models.

• Experience supporting multiple client deployments of the same platform.