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The role will be responsible for ensuring architectural alignment across Cloudera, Teradata, Informatica, and Denodo ecosystems while driving platform modernization, remediation, governance, and future-state expansion initiatives.\nKey Responsibilities:\nOwn and govern the end-to-end Data Lakehouse architecture, covering data ingestion, storage, processing, consumption, and governance.\nDefine and enforce target-state architecture, including Medallion (Bronze, Silver, Gold) design principles.\nEnsure seamless integration across Cloudera, Teradata, Informatica, Denodo, and related data platforms.\nAssess existing data architecture, identify gaps, and define remediation and modernization strategies.\nGovern enterprise data models, data standards, aggregation frameworks, and reporting readiness.\nEnsure compliance with data governance, security, metadata, lineage, and regulatory requirements.\nDefine architecture patterns for scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.\nLead architecture reviews and collaborate with business, governance, security, and technology stakeholders.\nRequired Skills:\nStrong experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, and Data Lakehouse modernization.\nDeep understanding of Medallion Architecture and enterprise data modeling frameworks.\nExperience with:\nCloudera CDP (Spark, Hive, Kafka, HDFS)\nTeradata Vantage\nInformatica BDM / PowerExchange\nDenodo\nKafka-based data integration\nStrong knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, data quality, security, and governance frameworks.\nExpertise in performance optimization, scalability planning, and resilient architecture design.\nPreferred Experience:\nStrong BFSI domain experience with exposure to enterprise banking data models such as FSLDM and FSAS.\nExperience supporting regulatory, audit, and compliance-driven data programs.\nProven track record delivering large-scale data transformation and modernization initiatives.\nQualifications:\n15+ years of experience in Enterprise Data Architecture or related leadership roles.\nExperience leading complex enterprise data platform programs in BFSI environments.\nArchitecture certifications and advanced data engineering background are advantageous.\n*** Only successful candidates will be contacted ***\nSalt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2864,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T22:07:30Z"}],"liveness":{"score":7,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.264,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":104,"expected_fill_days":51,"reasons":["conf:31","agency","stale_co","urgency","velocity","ghost","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-enterprise-data-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-enterprise-data-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T01:32:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1874,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3126,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}