Data Solution Architect

Location: Pune (Hybrid – 3 days in office)

Experience: 10–14 years

About the Role

We're looking for a Data Solution Architect to lead the data platform for a global payments/SaaS client. You'll own architecture across SQL Server, Snowflake, Power BI and Power Platform, act as the client's technical advisor, and guide the delivery team.

• Design and evolve a cloud data warehouse on Snowflake with dbt: layered modelling, history/snapshot strategy and ingestion from operational databases.

• Lead technical discovery: scope validation, impact analysis, data profiling and solution design.

• Set engineering standards for ETL, stored procedures, migrations and multi-environment promotion.

• Architect reporting solutions in Power BI (paginated reports and dashboards), including automated report testing.

• Define CI/CD and ALM for data, reporting and Power Platform workloads.

• Evaluate tools and build-vs-buy options, balancing cost, licensing and security.

• Drive AI-assisted delivery (knowledge bases, agent-assisted development and testing).

• Oversee production stability, review designs and code, and mentor engineers.

• Engage stakeholders and translate business needs into roadmaps and estimates.

• Strong data architecture experience with SQL Server/Azure SQL and Snowflake

• dbt, dimensional modelling, SCD/snapshot patterns

• Power BI architecture (paginated reports and dashboards)

• CI/CD for data platforms (Azure DevOps or GitHub)

• Excellent client-facing communication and documentation

• Power Platform / Power Automate ALM

• Fivetran, AWS (S3), PostgreSQL

• Azure (Container Apps, Entra ID)

• GenAI / agentic tooling for engineering

• Payments or fintech domain experience