Cloud Data Architect
Virtusa
Posted: December 8, 2025
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Job Description
Define and own enterprise data architecture patterns: lakehouse, data warehouse, data lake, data vault and dimensional models, aligned to business needs and regulatory requirements.
Create reference architectures for batch, streaming, and transactional pipelines using Databricks (DLT, Autoloader, Unity Catalog, SQL Warehouse).
Lead modernization/migration programs: Exadata/Oracle/Informatica/Hadoop/SAS Spark/Databricks, Redshift/Snowflake/BigQuery.
Platform & Engineering
Architect multi‑cloud data platforms leveraging:
AWS: S3, Glue, Lambda, MSK/Kinesis, EMR, Redshift, Step Functions, MWAA.
Azure: ADF, ADLS, Functions, Event Hub, Azure SQL, Logic Apps, Stream Analytics.
GCP: Dataflow, Dataproc, BigQuery, Composer, GCS, Cloud Functions, Vertex AI.
Establish performance optimization guidelines for PySpark/Spark: memory tuning, shuffle/partition strategies, UDF optimization, RAPIDS/GPU acceleration.
Design event‑driven ingestion and CDC architectures (GoldenGate, Kafka/MSK, Kinesis, Glue/Airflow operators).
Governance, Security & Reliability
Implement data governance: Unity Catalog, access controls, lineage, PII handling, encryption/decryption in transit and at rest.
Define observability & reliability standards: data quality (DQ), schema evolution, incident management, SLAs/SLOs, cost guardrails.
DevOps & Orchestration
Drive CI/CD for data pipelines using Terraform, Jenkins, Databricks Asset Bundles, TypeScript CDK; standardize environments, promotion flows, secrets management.
Standardize Airflow/MWAA/Composer orchestration with reusable operators and DAG patterns.
About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.