Senior Cloud Platforms Architect/Lead- Data Infrastructure Platforms
Listed on 2026-02-06
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing, IT Project Manager, Data Engineer, Systems Engineer
Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced, technically strong, and delivery‑driven Onsite Lead / Principal Architect to lead our Data Infrastructure Platforms function. This role owns the architecture, execution, and operational excellence of cloud-based data platform capabilities—including provisioning and automation, platform reliability, governance enablement, and secure scalable delivery.
You will act as the primary onsite leader partnering with the Cloud Platforms Head, coordinating with Offshore teams, and collaborating with internal platform consumers such as Analytics Platform teams and Data Governance. The ideal candidate blends deep hands-on platform architecture with strong Agile execution and stakeholder leadership.
Key Responsibilities- Serve as the onsite leader for the Data Infrastructure Platforms engineering team, ensuring high-quality and predictable delivery across initiatives.
- Own day-to-day execution: sprint planning, backlog refinement, grooming, reviews/demos, retrospectives, and release readiness.
- Manage and streamline intake, prioritization, and execution using Aha! and Jira.
- Partner with Offshore team leads for global execution.
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and cross-team impacts.
- Establish delivery metrics and continuously improve team performance.
- Provide architectural leadership for enterprise cloud data infrastructure and platform services.
- Design scalable, secure, cost-efficient reference architectures for ingestion, ELT/ETL, orchestration, and Lakehouse patterns.
- Review and approve solution designs ensuring alignment with architecture, security, and operational standards.
- Drive engineering excellence across CI/CD, observability, automation.
- Own infrastructure provisioning using Terraform.
- Establish Terraform best practices: modularization, versioning, state management.
- Lead Git Ops-based Kubernetes deployments using Argo CD.
- Oversee updates to Kubernetes workloads through Argo CD workflows.
- Own architecture and lifecycle management for Databricks on AWS.
- Drive governance with Unity Catalog and integrations with metadata platforms.
- Define best practices for notebooks, pipelines, security, Delta Lake workflows.
- Serve as the onsite contact for Analytics Platforms and Data Governance.
- Manage intake, prioritization, solution shaping, estimation, and expectation alignment.
- Communicate platform strategy, standards, and decisions clearly.
- Own operational health: incidents, RCA, SLAs/SLOs.
- Drive observability, cost optimization, and compliance.
- Maintain documentation: architecture diagrams, SOPs, playbooks.
- Experience requirements: 15+ years in cloud platforms, data engineering, or enterprise architecture.
- Strong AWS experience (Redshift, Glue, Athena, MWAA, EKS).
- Experience with Databricks, DBT, Fivetran.
- Strong Terraform and Argo CD expertise.
- Proven global team leadership.
- Strong Agile delivery experience.
- Experience with governance/catalog tools (Atlan, Collibra, Alation).
- AWS certifications.
- Experience with CI/CD, policy enforcement.
- Exposure to analytics platforms (Posit, Tableau, Spotfire, UBI).
- Strong ownership mindset.
- Balances architecture and execution.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Calm under pressure and improvement‑oriented
CURIOSITY DRIVEN, SCIENCE FOCUSED, EMPLOYEE BUILT. Our culture is unlike any other, one where we debate, challenge ourselves, and interact with all alike. We are a curious bunch, characterized by our passion to learn and spirit of teamwork. Zifo is a global R&D solutions provider focused on the industries of Pharma, Biotech, Manufacturing QC, Medical Devices, specialty chemicals and other research-based organizations.
Our team’s knowledge of science and expertise in technology help Zifo better serve our customers around the globe, including 7 of the Top 10 Biopharma companies.
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