# Senior Data Architect

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Data Architect to join our team in Bengaluru, India. As a Senior Data Architect, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing our data architecture strategy.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Set success metrics up front, prove value through proofs of value (POVs) before scaling, and track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as adoption, data quality, and user satisfaction.

- Evangelize and lead change management, demos, and training to drive enterprise-wide adoption and data literacy.

- Own architecture and canonical models, overseeing data ingestion end-to-end and the target canonical/conformed data model connecting engagement data to GSK Medical data.

- Establish governance by design, overseeing the data lake governance and framework, including access models, schemas, classification, lineage, metadata, quality, and storage standards.

- Hold partners to outcomes, aligning platforms, engineering teams, and vendors around shared outcomes, connecting data across functions, and managing dependencies through to completion.

- Work AI-first, using approved AI tools to accelerate discovery and backlog trade-offs.

- Future-proof the ecosystem, ensuring data assets are structured, scalable, and of high enough quality to power GenAI, predictive analytics, and agentic workflows.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related discipline.

- 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, data product ownership, or related roles, including delivering measurable business outcomes.

- Experience designing enterprise-scale data lake/lakehouse architectures on Azure or other cloud data platforms.

- Experience in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, including translating varied source data into canonical (standardized) data models.

- Experience with SQL, Databricks, and/or Snowflake, and understanding of both relational and non-relational data structures.

- Experience using data governance and semantic architecture approaches to enable enterprise-grade data governance and semantic layers.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with Azure Databricks, Spark, and Delta Lake.

- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, or Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), and Microsoft Purview or equivalent data catalogue tools.

- Experience with canonical data models and API-based data integration.

- Experience with data mesh and data product operating models, knowledge graphs, and ontologies.

**What We Offer:**

- Competitive salary and benefits package.

- Opportunity to work with a global biopharma company.

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment.

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## Skills

### Required
- Agile Methodology
- Backlogs
- Cross-Functional Teamwork
- Design Thinking
- DevOps
- Process Diagrams
- Product Strategies
- Project Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Services Management
- Software Development
- User Experience (UX)
- User Research
- User Story

### Nice to have
- Azure Databricks
- Spark
- Delta Lake
- Microsoft Fabric
- Synapse
- Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)
- Microsoft Purview

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