Technical Architect
HybridBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaHybridFull TimeLarge
Full TimeLarge
Job Summary
Lead the drive for defining and commending the architecture vision and high-level design for Post Trade regulatory reporting, focusing on Java, event-driven, and microservices solutions. Guide infrastructure teams on runtime setups for batch and streaming data architectures while driving data quality, profiling, and governance to ensure reporting fit for purpose. Provide thought leadership and mentorship to build development best practices and standards across IT teams, actively participating in communities of practice. Establish effective relationships with key stakeholders to gain consensus on transformational challenges involving MIFID, ESMA, and GDPR compliance.
Required Qualifications
- 12 – 15 years of experience as a Technical Architect
- hands-on ownership of enterprise-scale cloud data platform design from concept through to production
- Strong cloud architecture expertise on GCP and AWS
- deep practical knowledge of at least one of GCP or AWS
- Demonstrable experience designing and implementing data lakehouse architecture using medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
- focus on progressive data quality, immutability, and dimensional modelling
- Experience with batch and streaming data architectures
- Solid understanding of data governance
- access control frameworks, IAM/RBAC, PII encryption, data classification, audit logging, and compliance-driven design (GDPR, FCA, or equivalent regulatory context)
- Experience designing and documenting cloud integration patterns — REST API, MFT, event streaming, cross-cloud (AWS↔GCP)
- security considerations such as Workload Identity Federation, VPC perimeters, and JWT-based service-to-service authentication
- Track record of producing architecture artefacts that go through formal review and approval — HLDs, reference architectures, ADRs, or equivalent
- getting them ratified by senior technical and business stakeholders
- Ability to evaluate multiple architectural options
- articulate trade-offs clearly
- make and document well-reasoned decisions under ambiguity
- Knowledge of dimensional data modelling
- canonical data models
- schema registry (AVRO) in the context of enterprise data platforms
Desired Qualifications
- experience building solutions using Java
- following Event Driven and Microservices architectures
- experience with batch and streaming Data architectures
- work with infrastructure teams to guide the setup of runtimes required for the data architecture
- Understanding of key data principles and data platforms like Data Lake, ODS and DW
- Drives data quality, data profiling and data governance activities to ensure data is fit for purpose for IG Reporting
- Solid understanding of technology strategy, change management, and a principled approach to broad transformational challenges and opportunities
- Actively participate in the relevant communities of practice, providing thought leadership, coaching and mentoring of other employees to build a community around development best practice
- developing standards and knowledge sharing
- Solution oriented experience with streaming data architectures using Apache Flink/Spark
- having data backbone as Kafka or other messaging solutions
- Experience with Mongo
- Oracle RDBMS
- delivering key regulatory project solution architecture like MIFID, ESMA, GDPR etc
- A good collaborator who is happy to work across the IT teams to support integration design realization and ensure collaborative evolution of the strategy
- A proactive and creative thinker who provides clear vision, inspiring and engaging staff to deliver excellence
- Demonstrates sound and pragmatic judgement, balancing pace, risk and business value to reach decisions which are well informed, rigorous and actionable
- Establishes and maintains effective working relationships and influence with key stakeholders based on professional credibility and excellent communication and engagement
- Good facilitator, drawing out problems, involving and gaining commitment from the relevant stakeholders with credibility and gravitas to establish trust, gaining consensus and buy-in
- GCP experience (BigQuery, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GCS, Dataproc, VPC Service Controls, IAM, Dataplex)
- curious and forward-thinking mindset
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