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Multi-Cloud Lakehouse Architecture: Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of scalable Data Lakehouse solutions across Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, GCS, BigLake, Dataplex) and Microsoft Azure (Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, ADLS Gen2, Azure Databricks).
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On-Prem to Cloud Migration & Agentic Pipelines: Architect and deploy automated, scalable, agent-driven data pipelines (leveraging GenAI agents and metadata-driven frameworks) to orchestrate, validate, and accelerate complex migrations from on-premises legacy warehouses/databases (Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server) to GCP and Azure.
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Client Engagement & Advisory: Collaborate directly with customers to understand business goals, data challenges, and technical requirements; translate them into robust architectural blueprints, technical roadmaps, and actionable delivery plans.
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Customer Technical Backlog Management: Own and actively manage the customer technical backlog—translating business epics into technical user stories, prioritizing technical debt, defining sprint milestones, and aligning backlog items with business ROI.
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Modern Ingestion & Streaming: Design and implement data pipelines supporting both real-time and batch ingestion using modern orchestration (Cloud Composer, Azure Data Factory, Airflow) and streaming/messaging frameworks (Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub, Azure Event Hubs).
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Governance & Lineage: Establish and enforce best practices for unified data cataloging, metadata management, automated lineage, and data quality across multi-cloud and on-prem systems using Dataplex, Microsoft Purview, or open-source governance tools.
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Security & Compliance: Define and implement robust data security, identity management (IAM / Azure Entra ID), encryption, row/column-level access control, and regulatory compliance standards across clouds.
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Team Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Steer the overarching technical direction of engineering teams; establish architectural standards, mentor senior and mid-level engineers, conduct architecture review, and ensure engineering excellence.
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Hands-on Delivery & Prototyping: Balance strategic architecture discussions with hands-on solutioning, architectural spikes, Proof-of-Concepts (POCs), and performance tuning of complex multi-cloud distributed workloads.
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Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with enterprise architects, delivery leads, DevOps engineers, and customer stakeholders to drive solution adoption, operational scalability, and long-term platform maintainability
Candidates should demonstrate hands-on architecture and design experience across the following domains:
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Cloud Platforms: Deep expertise in both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure enterprise data ecosystems.
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Processing Engines: Apache Spark, PySpark, Databricks, Azure Synapse / Fabric Spark, GCP Dataproc.
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Modern Migration & AI Automation: Building automated, agentic, or metadata-driven data migration pipelines, automated schema conversion, and data validation agents for on-prem to cloud lift-and-shift/re-platforming.
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Messaging & Streaming: Apache Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub, Azure Event Hubs.
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Orchestration: Apache Airflow, Google Cloud Composer, Azure Data Factory (ADF).
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Analytical Storage & Warehouses: GCP BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, Delta Lake/Parquet.
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NoSQL / Cache Storage: MongoDB, Redis, Bigtable, Azure Cosmos DB.
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Containerization & Deployment: Kubernetes (GKE and AKS), Cloud Run, Azure Container Apps.
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API Frameworks: Python (FastAPI, Flask) for data service endpoints.
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Databases & Querying: Advanced SQL validation and extraction from legacy/RDBMS systems (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL).
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CI/CD & Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
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15+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and Enterprise Data Platform architecture.
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5+ years architecting, migrating, and deploying production data platforms across GCP and/or Azure, with proven multi-cloud integration patterns.
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Demonstrated track record leading on-premises/cloud to cloud modernization/migration initiatives, including data ingestion, transformation, automated data reconciliation, and cutover strategies.
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Experience designing or integrating autonomous, agent-driven, or LLM-augmented data workflows (e.g., automated schema mapping, code conversion, data quality validation agents).
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Proven hands-on experience designing and deploying Lakehouse platforms incorporating Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) and Data Mesh / Data Product principles.
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Deep knowledge of multi-cloud data governance, access management, and cataloging (Dataplex, Microsoft Purview, Unity Catalog).
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Strong leadership capability in technical backlog management, agile scoping, sprint planning, and setting technical strategy for distributed teams.
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Exceptional stakeholder communication skills: capability to articulate architectural trade-offs to C-level executives as smoothly as reviewing code with engineers.
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Multi-cloud certifications: Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer / Cloud Architect and/or Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate / Azure Solutions Architect Expert .
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Hands-on knowledge of Snowflake and Databricks
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Familiarity with AWS data services (Amazon S3, Redshift, Glue, EMR).
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Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or agentic framework integrations in data operations.
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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.