Enterprise / Data Architect

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Architecture Ownership

• Own and govern the
• end-to-end Data Lakehouse architecture
• , ensuring consistency across data ingestion, storage, processing, consumption, and governance layers.
• Define and validate the
• target state Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
• in alignment with BANK’s enterprise architecture principles.
• Ensure robust architectural patterns for batch, near real-time, and historical data processing.

Platform & Technology Alignment

• Ensure architectural consistency and seamless integration across:
• **Cloudera Data Platform**
• **Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse**
• **Informatica (ETL, Data Quality, Metadata)**
• **Denodo (Data Virtualization & Consumption)**
• Review and approve low-level designs, data flows, and integration patterns across platforms.

Phase 1 Remediation Governance

• Perform architectural assessment and validation of
• Phase 1 deliverables
• , including:
• Data pipelines
• Logical and physical data models
• Gold layer aggregations (Teradata)
• Identify architectural gaps, anti-patterns, and misalignments.
• Define remediation and rebuild strategies aligned with BANK’s target architecture.

Enterprise Data Modeling & Standards

• Govern the implementation of logical and physical data models aligned to:
• **FSLDM (Financial Services Logical Data Model)**
• **FSAS aggregation standards**
• Ensure correctness, consistency, and reusability of enterprise and subject-area models.
• Validate aggregation logic, hierarchies, and reporting readiness.

Governance, Compliance & Security

• Ensure alignment with:
• **NDMO (National Data Management Office)**
• **NDI (National Data Index)**
• BANK data classification, privacy, and security standards
• Oversee metadata, lineage, data quality, and auditability design.
• Ensure architecture supports regulatory reporting, traceability, and reconciliation requirements.

Performance, Scalability & Resilience

• Define architecture patterns for:
• High availability (≥99.9% uptime)
• Horizontal scalability
• Disaster recovery and point-in-time restore
• Review and guide performance tuning strategies for ingestion, transformation, and reporting workloads.

Stakeholder & Governance Engagement

• Act as the primary architectural interface with BANK IT, Data Governance, Security, and Business teams.
• Participate in architecture review boards, design walkthroughs, and governance forums.
• Clearly articulate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and impacts to senior stakeholders.

Technical Expertise

• Strong experience in

Enterprise Data Architecture

• , including:
• EDW modernisation
• Data Lake / Lakehouse architectures
• Medallion architecture patterns
• Deep understanding of
• BFSI data domains
• and enterprise reference models:
• FSLDM
• FSAS
• Hands-on architectural exposure to:

• Cloudera CDP (HDFS, Spark, Hive, Kafka)

• Teradata Vantage
• Informatica (ETL)
• Denodo

Governance & Compliance

• Proven experience designing governance-driven architectures:
• Metadata and lineage
• Data quality frameworks
• Security, masking, and encryption
• Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance-driven data platforms.

Non-Functional Design

• Expertise in:
• Performance and workload optimization
• Scalability and capacity planning
• Resilience, backup, and recovery design

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead cross-vendor and cross-functional technical discussions.
• Governance mindset with pragmatic delivery orientation.

Experience & Qualifications

• **15+ years**
• of experience in data architecture roles, preferably in large BFSI organizations.
• Proven track record of
• large-scale data platform transformation programs
• .
• Experience working in
• hybrid delivery models
• with onsite and offshore teams.
• Architecture certification(s) or advanced data engineering background preferred.
• Thank you for your interest in applying for this position with TCS.
• We will review your application and will get back to you if we are considering your interest in this opportunity.

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