Data Architect

About Us

Established in the year 2000 in the US, we have global offices in the US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, Vietnam, and Canada, with best-in-class infrastructure and development facilities spread across the globe. We are an end-to-end solution provider in Banking & Financial Services, Telecom, Healthcare, Manufacturing & Energy verticals and have successfully delivered $1 billion worth of projects for more than 20 Fortune 500 companies.

We assist our clients in building organizational resilience to face the future and steer their journey to digital fluency. Building enterprise systems, implementing a digital strategy, and gaining a competitive advantage with business transformation are a few of our strong capabilities today. Wissen utilizes its multi-location facilities and industry-standard processes, such as ITIL, to provide the ‘best-in-class’ cost-effective solutions that promise maximum returns on minimum IT spending.

Position Name

Data Engineering Architect

Experience

8- 13 yrs

Location

Bangalore

Shift Timings

Custom

Job Description

Core Technical Skills

Cloud-Native Data Engineering on AWS

Strong, hands-on expertise in AWS native data services: S3, Glue (Schema Registry, Data Catalog), Step Functions, Lambda, Lake Formation, Athena, MSK/Kinesis, EMR (Spark), SageMaker (inc. Feature Store)

Comfort designing and optimizing pipelines for both batch (Step Functions) and streaming (Kinesis/MSK) ingestion.

Data Mesh & Distributed Architectures

Deep understanding of data mesh principles: including domain-oriented ownership, treating data as a product, and the use of federated governance models

Experience enabling self-service platforms, decentralized ingestion, and transformation workflows.

Data Contracts & Schema Management

Advanced knowledge of schema enforcement, evolution, and validation (preferably AWS Glue Schema Registry/JSON/Avro)

Data Transformation & Modelling

Proficiency with modern ELT/ETL stack: Spark (EMR), dbt, AWS Glue, and Python (pandas)

AI/ML Data Enablement

Designing and supporting vector stores (OpenSearch), feature stores (SageMaker Feature Store), and integrating with MLOps/data pipelines for AI/semantic search and RAG-type workloads

Metadata, Catalog, and Lineage

Familiarity with central cataloging, lineage solutions, and data discovery (Glue Data Catalog, Collibra, Atlan, Amundsen, etc.)

Implementing end-to-end lineage, auditability, and governance processes.

Security, Compliance, and Data Governance

Design and implementation of data security: row/column-level security (Lake Formation), KMS encryption, role-based access using AuthN/AuthZ standards (JWT/OIDC), GDPR/SOC2/ISO 27001-aligned policies

Orchestration & Observability

Experience with pipeline orchestration (AWS Step Functions, Apache Airflow/MWAA) and monitoring (CloudWatch, X-Ray) in large-scale environments.

APIs & Integration

API design for both batch and real-time data delivery (REST, GraphQL endpoints for AI/reporting/BI consumption)

Competencies

Communication Skills

PLANNING SKILLS

Interpersonal Skills

SKILL

Key Skills

Cloud-Native Data Engineering on AWS

Data Mesh & Distributed Architectures

Data Contracts & Schema Management

Data Contracts & Schema Management

in AWS native data services: S3, Glue (Schema Registry, Data Catalog), Step Functions, Lambda, Lake Formation, Athena, MSK/Kinesis, EMR (Spark), SageMaker (inc. Feature Store)

Comfort designing and optimizing pipelines for both batch (Step Functions) and streaming (Kinesis/MSK) ingestion.

Soft Skills

Good at communication

Good at Attitude

Qualification

Bachelor’s in Engineering

Certifications