Senior Data Architect

Engineering the AI-powered enterprise. With AI and cloud-native solutions, BETSOL accelerates cloud transformation for enterprises across 17+ countries. BETSOL holds several engineering patents, and is recognized with industry awards. BETSOL maintains a net promoter score that is 2x the industry average. BETSOL’s open source backup and recovery product line, Zmanda (Zmanda.com), delivers up to 50% savings in total cost of ownership (TCO) and delivers best-in-class performance. BETSOL Global IT Services (BETSOL.com) builds and supports end-to-end enterprise solutions, reducing time-to-market for customers. BETSOL offices are set against the vibrant backdrops of Broomfield, Colorado and Bangalore, India. We take pride in being an employee-centric organization, offering comprehensive health insurance, competitive salaries, 401K, volunteer programs, and scholarship opportunities. Office amenities include a fitness center, cafe, and recreational facilities. Learn more at betsol.com

The Senior Data Architect is responsible for designing and implementing the enterprise data architecture. This role will lead the development of scalable, secure, and integrated data platforms to support analytics, compliance, and business operations.

Define and implement the company’s data architecture, models, and pipelines.

Design integrations between internal platforms and third-party systems (Salesforce, CX platforms, etc.).

Establish standards for data quality, metadata, lineage, and classification

Partner with engineering, security, and compliance teams to align on privacy, retention, and access control policies.

Lead the selection and implementation of data platforms.

Drive adoption of data best practices across teams and support data governance efforts.

Support data risk reviews, vendor onboarding, and audit readiness from a technical standpoint.

Maintain data platforms and architecture performance

Support existing data workflows, and integrations

Respond to data-related incidents and ensure data reliability

Improve data models to support business growth and analytics

Optimize data pipelines, quality, and availability

Expand self-service data capabilities for stakeholders

Define future-state architecture to enable digital transformation

Lead data strategy to support AI/ML, automation and advanced analytics

Integrate data across new platforms, partners, or business models

Looking For:

8+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data management.

Mandatory Skills:

A. Technical Skills:

Demonstrates strong and effective communication with clients and cross-functional stakeholders.

Strong hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake)

Strong hands-on experience in AWS data engineering services (e.g., S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda)

Familiarity with privacy and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS.

Strong understanding of data modeling (OLTP/OLAP), APIs, and system integration.

Proven experience owning or leading enterprise data architecture (not just pipeline development or BI)

Experience supporting analytics, AI/ML use cases, and data warehousing at

scale.

Advanced proficiency in Python for data engineering and automation

Experience with data governance concepts (quality, lineage, metadata, classification)

B. Soft Skills

Strong communication skills with clients, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams

Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple functions

Demonstrated leadership skills in a cross-functional environment

Ability to drive and influence enterprise-level data strategy and architecture decisions

Good to Have Skills:

Experience with Data Vault 2.0 or other enterprise modeling approaches (Kimball, Inmon, 3NF, etc.)

Experience with DBT or similar transformation tools (Coalesce, Madillion, Dataform, or native SQL-based transformations)

Experience with Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms (Kinesis, MSK, Confluent, etc.)

Experience building data applications or self-service tools (Streamlit or similar frameworks)

Strong experience with BI tools; Tableau, Looker, Power BI

AWS Certified Data Analytics – _Specialty

TOGAF (for architecture frameworks)

CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional)

Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

Work is for a US-based client

Strong English proficiency required

This role requires US Eastern Time working hours : Monday-Friday(6PM IST - 3 AM IST) implying standard US-EST business hours (with reasonable flexibility for incident response and global coordination).