NTT DATA is seeking a skilled Data Architect Lead Advisor to join our team in Bangalore, India. This role focuses on defining and governing end-to-end cloud-based data, analytics, and AI platforms.

You will spearhead technical design across Databricks, AWS, and Terraform, ensuring scalable, secure, and business-aligned solutions.

This is an opportunity to drive innovation and impact within a leading global technology services provider.

Champion the definition of end-to-end Databricks-based solution architectures and design scalable data platforms utilizing AWS services and the Databricks Lakehouse. Produce comprehensive architecture artifacts, solution blueprints, and technical design documents, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards. Provide strong technical leadership to engineering and project teams, conduct architecture workshops, and establish best practices for data engineering and DevOps. Define Infrastructure-as-Code standards with Terraform, supporting environment strategy, networking, and security. Ensure high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery, while establishing robust security and data governance frameworks.

A minimum of 8 years of experience in solution or technical architecture roles is required, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale cloud data platforms. Essential expertise includes strong Databricks and AWS architecture, proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code, and a solid understanding of data warehousing, lakehouse, analytics, and AI/ML architectures. Experience facilitating architecture and stakeholder workshops is also crucial.

Key technical skills encompass Databricks, AWS, Terraform, Data Lakehouse Architecture, CI/CD and DevOps practices, Security and Governance frameworks, SQL, and Data Modelling. Desirable skills include Unity Catalog, Azure DevOps or GitHub, Kafka/Event Streaming, AI/ML Platforms, and Data Mesh concepts.