BAULI4-Computing Architect 4 - B78-Information/Data Architecture

Position Responsibilities:

• Design, document, and maintain the Unified Data Model (UDM) artifacts and mappings.
• Model process layers in the datalake, defining transformation responsibilities and lineage across layers.
• Define and enforce rules for data processing, including routing tables, validation rules, enrichment logic, and error-handling policies.
• Author and maintain schema definitions, attribute dictionaries, and change management processes for schema evolution.
• Translate business and source system requirements into data transformation specifications to be implemented in Azure Databricks and downstream systems.
• Collaborate with data engineers to design performant transformations, partitioning, and storage strategies in the datalake.
• Review and approve data pipeline designs, ensuring adherence to UDM, governance, and security policies.
• Work with DevOps and engineering teams to operationalize CI/CD for Databricks notebooks, jobs, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to data engineering teams, including remote collaboration with engineers located in India; coordinate design, implementation, and delivery across time zones (may require off-hour work).
• Establish data quality metrics, monitoring, and remediation guidance; ensure traceability and lineage from source to consumption.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews, code reviews, and agile ceremonies; drive best practices for data modeling and transformation.
• Communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs to stakeholders, product owners, and engineering teams.
  
  

This position is On Site.

Describe the project/day-to-day activities they will be working on:

Designing, improving, communicating, and managing data and data models for training analytics application.

What are the Top 3-5 Technical/Software Skills needed to perform this role/job?:

Unified Data Model (UDM)

Data lakehouse concepts

Business intelligence analytical understanding

Basic Qualifications (Required Skill/Experience):

• 9 years of experience in data architecture, data modeling, or related data engineering roles.
• Proven experience designing and implementing Unified Data Models (UDM).
• Strong expertise in Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Strong expertise in data modeling across multiple process layers (raw/ingest, transformed, curated) and defining transformation logic.
• Deep understanding of data governance, data lineage, metadata management, and data quality concepts.
• Demonstrated experience with Databricks and building/architecting datalake solutions.
• Experience defining schema evolution processes, new attribute definitions, and backward-compatible changes.
• Experience authoring route tables, processing rules, and data routing/ingestion patterns.
• Experience collaborating with geographically distributed engineering teams and willingness to work off hours to coordinate with teams in India.
• Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Prior experience in aviation, training analytics, or related operational data domains.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, or equivalent data governance tools.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices for data pipelines (Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitOps).
• Knowledge of streaming ingestion patterns, Kafka/Event Hubs, and near-real-time processing.
• Experience with metadata platforms and data catalog tools (e.g., Purview, Alation).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.