Data Lakehouse Architect

Experience: 10+ Years
Role: Data Lakehouse Architect

Key Skills:
TEAM Architecture(Big Data)

- 10-15years of experience of implementing a Data Lakehouse preferably in FSI domain (usingplatforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Cloudera, Huawei, Alibaba, GoogleCloud, AWS, Azure),

- Experience in large scale implementationsand performance optimizations in the Lakehouse using

a. OpenTable Formats such as Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake,

b. ObjectStorage including tiered storage (hot, warm, cold data) strategies

c. DataFederation such as Trino, Denodo, Dremio

d. Multimodal Query Engines (Hive, Impala, Apache Kudu etc)

- Experience in designing MPP and Distributed Compute workloads across on-premise, hybrid and cloud environments

- Experience in serving agentic workloads using RAG, Embedding strategies, Vector DB, Graph DB, prompt engineering, context management etc

- Experience in designing optimal hybrid and cloud workloads using private dedicated connectivity (Direct Connect, Express Route etc), workload placement strategy, egress cost optimization, Infrastructure-as-Code,

- Experience in building foundation and business data products and serving them to downstream applications via API, pub-and-sub, generative BI, real-time dashboards, etc and publishing to a data marketplace

- Knowledge of migrating workloads out of MPP appliances such as Teradata, Greenplum, Netezza using bulk migration strategies, agentic accelerators is a plus

- Knowledge of containerization, deploying applications to Kubernetes, Openshift using Helm package manager, Kustomize etc is a plus

Expertise in integrating applications with Devops tools

Responsibilities:

- You will be responsible for the end-to-end architecture of the lakehouse platform.

o This includes the design and implementation of data products, data marketplace, knowledge layer and enabling agentic workloads to run out of the lakehouse platform.

- You will also be responsible for quality assurance of the team’s delivery in conformance with the Bank-defined software delivery methodology and tools.

- You will partner with other technology functions to help deliver required technology solutions.

- Other responsibilities include:

o Provide technical vision and create roadmaps for the lakehouse platform

o Create the target architecture for an application / set of applications with emphasis on platforms, reusability, scalability and security

o Create frameworks, technical features which helps in faster operationalisation of new patterns such as unstructured content extraction, lambda architecture deployment patterns, retrieval-augmented data patterns, agentic workloads etc

o Effectively partner with business users to design data contracts, SLA, data quality rules for data products

o Independently install, customise and integrate software packages and programs

o Participate in selection of product/tools via RFP/POC.

o Create technical documents (functional/non-functional specification, design specification, training manual) for the solutions. Review design specifications created by development team

o Performance engineering and tuning

o Execute continuous service improvement and process improvement plans

Requirements:

EDUCATION

- Bachelor’s degree/University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Certifications:

At least, 2 to 3 technical certifications in any of the below technologies:

1. Cloud/Lakehouse Certifications – (Azure, AWS, GCP cloud certifications)

2. DAMA Certified Data Management Professional, Databricks Certified Data Architect

3. Data modelling tools (Erwin)

4. Language – SQL, Java, Python, Scala, Javascript, node.js

5. Automation / scripting – CtrlM, Shell Scripting, Groovy

6. Vector DB (Databricks Vector Search, Azure AI Search, Pinecone, ChromaDB, Weaviate, Snowflake Cortex)

7. Graph DB (Neo4J, Janusgraph, Tigergraph, Microsoft Fabric + Cosmos DB, Amazon Neptune, Stardog)

8. Agentic Orchestration/Harness and Agentic Flow Frameworks (LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Microsoft Agent Framework, LlamaIndex Workflows, Google ADK)

9. NOSQL / In-memory DB (Azure Cosmos DB, Redis, Amazon DynamoDB, Firestore, Redis/Valkey)

10. Event Streaming (Apache Kafka, Confluent, Event Hubs, Kinesis)

11. Real-time processing (Flink, Spark Streaming, NiFi, Structured Streaming)

Additional Experience required for all teams to create an added advantage:

1. CI/CD software - Jenkins, JIRA, Code pipelines, Azure pipelines, GCP Cloud Build + Deploy

2. Code Quality – SonarQube

3. Artifact Repository – Jfrog, CodeArtefact, ECR, Azure Artifacts, GCP Artifact Registry

4. Source Code Version Control Tool – Git, Bitbucket

5. Infrastructure-as-code – Terraform, Cloudformation, ARM

6. Deployment Tool kit -Jenkins

7. Monitoring – CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Cloud Monitoring

8. Service or Incident Management (IcM) Tools - Remedy

9. Scheduling Tool - Control-M, Airflow

10. Defect Management Tool - JIRA

11. Application Testing tool – QuerySurge