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Senior Data Platform Solution Architect – Pune, India – Lead Azure Synapse & Databricks architecture.

Architect responsible for assessing current platform, designing next‑gen architecture, guiding delivery, and ensuring enterprise data governance.

Title: Architect- Business Intelligence

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India, 411014

Description: Job Description – Data Platform Solution Architect (Azure Synapse & Databricks)

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Data Platform Solution Architect to join an existing enterprise data platform team. The role requires the ability to rapidly assimilate a complex, partially implemented platform — understanding what has been built, what remains, and what needs to be evolved — and to translate that into a clear, actionable architecture that guides the team through current delivery and the next stage of platform transformation. This person will work closely with senior engineers and stakeholders, providing the architectural vision and technical direction needed to complete ongoing work and design the path forward.

Key Responsibilities

Rapidly assess and develop a deep understanding of the current platform state across all layers and components, working alongside the existing engineering team
Define and own the target-state architecture, bridging the gap between what is currently implemented and what needs to be completed or evolved
Design the architectural roadmap for the next stage of platform transformation, ensuring continuity with current investments while enabling future scalability
Translate business and data requirements into architectural decisions, reference designs, and technical standards
Provide hands‑on architectural guidance to engineering teams on a day‑to‑day basis — not limited to design documents but actively engaged in delivery
Identify architectural risks, dependencies, and trade‑offs across the platform and recommend mitigation strategies
Define integration patterns, data flow designs, and governance standards across source ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers
Establish and enforce architecture principles, design patterns, and platform standards across the team
Collaborate with data governance, business, and technology stakeholders to align platform direction with enterprise requirements
Support migration planning by defining target architectures, transition states, and validation strategies for workload migrations across platforms
Drive decisions on platform tooling, infrastructure, and service selection in alignment with cloud and enterprise architecture standards

Core Technical Skills

Architecture & Design

Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data platform architectures end‑to‑end — from source ingestion through to consumption

Deep understanding of medallion / lakehouse architecture patterns (Raw / Harmonized / Conformed / Consumption)

Strong knowledge of data modelling approaches: relational, dimensional, and lakehouse‑oriented

Experience designing data governance architectures: lineage, data quality frameworks, audit and control patterns, SCD versioning, CDC

Ability to design for both batch and real‑time data processing at scale

Experience architecting parallel‑run and phased migration strategies across platforms

Azure Data Platform Strong hands‑on knowledge of:

Azure Synapse Analytics (Pipelines, Spark Pool, Dedicated SQL Pool)
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Delta Lake on Azure (Synapse Lakehouse)
Azure Analysis Services
Oracle Golden Gate or equivalent real‑time replication patterns
Power BI and semantic layer design
Databricks & Lakehouse
Hands‑on experience with Azure Databricks (Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog preferred)
Strong understanding of Databricks platform capabilities: Delta Lake, Spark‑based transformation, workflow orchestration, governance
Experience designing migration architectures from legacy data warehouse or Synapse environments to Databricks Lakehouse
Ability to architect governance and control frameworks natively within Databricks

Cloud & Infrastructure

Strong Azure cloud architecture skills — security, networking, scalability, and cost optimization
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
CI/CD and DevOps practices for data platform delivery (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions)
Containerization and compute management (Docker, Kubernetes awareness)

Data Engineering Depth

Sufficient hands‑on engineering background to engage credibly with senior engineers on implementation decisions
Strong Python and SQL skills — able to review, challenge, and contribute to code where necessary
Experience with ETL/ELT frameworks, pipeline design patterns, and performance optimization at scale

Nice to Have

Experience with Unity Catalog and Azure Purview for enterprise data governance
Exposure to real‑time and streaming architectures (Event Hub / Kafka / Kinesis)
Familiarity with MLOps and GenAI platform integration patterns
Experience with monitoring and observability frameworks (e.g., Dynatrace)
Background in financial services or other regulated industries

Experience & Profile

12+ years of experience in Data Engineering and/or Data Architecture, with at least 4–5 years in a solution or platform architect role

Proven experience joining mid-flight programmes — able to quickly understand existing implementations and make sound architectural decisions without starting from a blank slate

Track record of delivering architecture across complex, multi‑layer data platforms in enterprise environments

Strong ability to balance pragmatism with rigour — delivering architecture that works for the team today while keeping the longer‑term direction sound

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — able to present technical architecture clearly to both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders

Collaborative by nature — this is a working architect role embedded with the team, not a remote advisory position

Experience working in regulated or enterprise-scale environments (financial services a plus)

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Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges is what makes us a unique employer. We are united by a shared commitment: to put our customers first and at the center of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions. Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our customers and for the world around us.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

Note: Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz' company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, Allianz expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.

Architect- Business Intelligence