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<p><span class="TextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0">Why Valtech? </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0">We’re</span> <span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW246265904 BCX0">the</span> <span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW246265904 BCX0">experience</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0"> innovation company </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0">- </span><span class="NormalTextRun CommentStart SCXW246265904 BCX0">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0"> trusted partner</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0"> to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people we offer </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0">growth opportunities, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0">a </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW246265904 BCX0">values</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0">-driven culture, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0">international </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0">careers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246265904 BCX0"> and the chance to shape the future of experience.</span></span><span class="EOP CommentStart SCXW246265904 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">The opportunity</span></strong></h3>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We are proud of:</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<li><a href="https://www.valtech.com/work/?utm_source=greenhouse&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=gl_ta_talent-acquisition_aw_ba_job_description_template&utm_term=website-applicants&utm_content=job-applicants_week192025" target="_blank"><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">The work we do and the innovation we drive</span></span></a><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.valtech.com/career/our-values/?utm_source=greenhouse&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=gl_ta_talent-acquisition_aw_ba_job_description_template&utm_term=website-applicants&utm_content=job-applicants_week192025" target="_blank"><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">Our values of share, care </span><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">a</span><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">nd dare</span></span></a><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.valtech.com/valtech-as-workplace/?utm_source=greenhouse&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=gl_ta_talent-acquisition_aw_ba_job_description_template&utm_term=website-applicants&utm_content=job-applicants_week192025" target="_blank"><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">A workplace culture that fosters creativity, diversity and autonomy</span></span></a><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.valtech.com/about/offices/?utm_source=greenhouse&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=gl_ta_talent-acquisition_aw_ba_job_description_template&utm_term=website-applicants&utm_content=job-applicants_week192025" target="_blank"><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">Our borderless, global framework, </span><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">which enables </span><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">seamless collaboration</span></span></a><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">The role </span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></h3>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">As a <strong>Data Architect</strong>, you are passionate about experience innovation and eager to push the boundaries of what’s possible. You bring<strong> 10+ YEARS</strong> of experience, a growth mindset and a drive to make a lasting impact.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">You will thrive in this role if you are:</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">A curious problem solver who challenges the status quo</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">A collaborator who values teamwork and knowledge-sharing</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Excited by the intersection of technology, creativity and data</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Experienced in Agile methodologies and consulting (a plus)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Role responsibilities</span></strong></p>
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<li>Define and document the end-to-end target-state data architecture for enterprise client programmes — covering ingestion, storage, transformation, serving, and consumption layers</li>
<li>Establish domain-driven data architecture boundaries aligned to business domains (e.g. Product, Customer, Order, Finance) using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles</li>
<li>Lead architecture design sessions with clients to align on technology choices, topology, and migration sequencing</li>
<li>Produce architecture artefacts to a consultancy standard: C4 diagrams, data flow diagrams, architecture decision records (ADRs), and technology selection rationale documents</li>
<li>Evaluate and recommend GCP-native vs. third-party component trade-offs — with clear cost, scalability, and maintainability justification</li>
<li>Define and enforce enterprise data modelling standards across the programme — covering 3NF (operational layer), dimensional modelling (Kimball star/snowflake for analytics), and Data Vault 2.0 (historized, auditable Lakehouse layers) as appropriate</li>
<li>Establish canonical data models for core business domains — ensuring consistency across squads and brands or business units</li>
<li>Design and govern the metadata framework: schema standards, naming conventions, entity definitions, data dictionaries, and lineage documentation</li>
<li>Oversee data contract design between producing and consuming domains — defining SLAs, schemas, versioning, and change management protocols</li>
<li>Ensure models are optimized for the target query engine — BigQuery partitioning/clustering strategies, Delta Lake Z-ordering, and Databricks Photon engine considerations</li>
<li>Design reusable, domain-oriented data product patterns — encapsulating ingestion, transformation, quality, and serving logic as deployable, versioned units</li>
<li>Define the data product interface contract: output ports (APIs, tables, streams), SLOs, ownership, and discoverability metadata in Unity Catalog or Dataplex</li>
<li>Establish a data product taxonomy aligned to business capability domains — enabling a self-serve data mesh posture for mature clients</li>
<li>Create accelerators and reference implementations that mid-level engineers can adopt — reducing bespoke build and enforcing consistency</li>
<li>Collaborate with Data Science and Analytics Engineering teams to ensure feature stores and ML feature pipelines are aligned to the broader data product architecture</li>
<li>Drive data governance strategy across the programme — defining policies for data classification, access control, retention, and quality thresholds</li>
<li>Design the governance operating model: data stewardship roles, data ownership accountability (domain owners vs. platform owners), and escalation paths</li>
<li>Define the data release sequencing strategy — prioritizing domains and data products based on business value, dependency mapping, and technical readiness</li>
<li>Establish lifecycle management policies for schema evolution, deprecation, and backward compatibility — enforced through Unity Catalog or equivalent cataloguing tooling</li>
<li>Implement or oversee data quality frameworks (Great Expectations, dbt tests, Databricks Delta constraints) aligned to governance thresholds</li>
<li>Provide hands-on architectural oversight during foundational delivery phases (Milestone 1 and equivalent programme gates) — ensuring the build conforms to the agreed architecture and standards</li>
<li>Conduct architecture reviews and code/design walkthroughs with engineering squads — identifying deviations, technical debt, and remediation paths</li>
<li>Chair Architecture Review Board (ARB) sessions with client technical leadership — presenting architecture decisions, trade-offs, and risk assessments</li>
<li>Define and track architecture fitness functions — measurable criteria that validate the architecture is being implemented correctly across squads</li>
<li>Serve as the escalation point for cross-squad architectural decisions, integration conflicts, and technology blockers</li>
<li>Lead client architecture workshops, data strategy sessions, and roadmap definition exercises at executive and technical levels</li>
<li>Produce and present strategic client-facing artefacts: Data Platform Vision documents, Architecture Blueprints, Governance Frameworks, and Capability Roadmaps</li>
<li>Contribute to pre-sales and bid activities — leading the data architecture strand of RFP/RFI responses, solution sizing, and pitch presentations</li>
<li>Represent Valtech's data architecture capability externally — through client advisory conversations, partner events, and thought leadership content.</li>
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<h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Must have qualifications</span></strong></h3>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">To be considered for this role, you must meet the following essential qualifications:</span> </p>
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<li>Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or equivalent professional experience</li>
<li>10+ years of progressive experience in data architecture, data platform engineering, or enterprise BI/analytics roles</li>
<li>Demonstrable experience as a lead data architect on at least two large-scale enterprise data platform programmes</li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">3NF — operational and transactional layer design</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Dimensional modelling — Kimball star/snowflake, slowly changing dimensions</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Data Vault 2.0 — hubs, links, satellites, business keys</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Data mesh & domain-oriented data product design</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and C4 modelling</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Data contract design — schema, SLAs, versioning</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Data catalogue & metadata management design</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Data quality framework design and governance policy</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">BigQuery — advanced design, partitioning, clustering, BI Engine</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Dataflow (Apache Beam) — streaming and batch architecture</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Cloud Composer / Airflow — orchestration design</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Pub/Sub — event-driven data product patterns</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Dataplex — data cataloguing, lineage, data quality</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Vertex AI Pipelines — ML feature pipeline integration</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Cloud Storage — data lake zone design (raw/curated/serving)</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Terraform — IaC standards and landing zone design</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Databricks Lakehouse — medallion architecture, zone design</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Delta Lake — ACID, time travel, schema evolution, Z-ordering</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Unity Catalog — governance, lineage, access control, data products</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Databricks Workflows and Asset Bundles — lifecycle automation</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">PySpark — advanced optimization, broadcast, AQE, dynamic pruning</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">dbt on Databricks — transformation layer standards</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Databricks on GCP — cluster policy, instance pools, cost governance</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">MLflow — model registry integration with data product layer</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Unity Catalog — fine-grained access, row/column security</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Dataplex — data mesh governance on GCP</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Data lineage — column-level lineage design and tooling</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">GDPR, data residency, and privacy-by-design principles</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Data stewardship operating models</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Metadata standards — Dublin Core, OpenLineage, OpenMetadata</span></li>
<li>Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification</li>
<li>Databricks Certified Professional Data Engineer or Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark</li>
<li><strong>TOGAF</strong>, <strong>Zachman</strong>, or equivalent enterprise architecture framework certification.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Nice to have qualifications </span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></h3>
<ul>
<li>Azure Synapse / Microsoft Fabric — cross-cloud architecture experience</li>
<li>Apache Iceberg or Apache Hudi — open table format evaluation and migration experience</li>
<li>Event-driven architecture — Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud, or Pub/Sub advanced patterns</li>
<li>Generative AI integration patterns — RAG pipelines, vector stores (AlloyDB, Vertex AI Vector Search), LLM-as-data-product</li>
<li>Exposure to composable commerce data models — product, pricing, inventory, order domains (commercetools, SFCC, SAP Commerce)</li>
<li>Experience in luxury, retail, or FMCG verticals — multi-brand data architectures, PIM/DAM integration patterns</li>
<li>OpenMetadata or Collibra — enterprise-grade data catalogue implementation</li>
<li>Familiarity with Salesforce Marketing Cloud data connectors or Customer Data Platforms (CDPs)</li>
<li>Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer</li>
<li>CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) — DAMA certification</li>
<li>HashiCorp Terraform Associate</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW105898609 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW105898609 BCX0">If you do not meet all the listed qualifications or have gaps in your experience, we still encourage you to apply. At Valtech, we recognize that talent comes in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and a willingness to learn.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW105898609 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></strong></p>
<h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Commitment to reaching all kinds of people</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></h3>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We design experiences that work for all kinds of people - and that starts with our own teams. At Valtech, we’re intentional about building an inclusive culture where everyone feels supported to grow, thrive and achieve their goals. No matter your background, you belong here. </span><a href="https://www.valtech.com/about/diversity-inclusion/" target="_blank"><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">Explore our Diversity & Inclusion site</span></span></a><span data-contrast="auto"> to see how we’re creating a more equitable Valtech for all.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">The benefits </span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></h3>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">This is a<strong> Fulltime</strong> position based in <span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Bengaluru</strong></span>. </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Beyond a competitive compensation package, we offer:</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Flexibility, with remote and hybrid work options (country-dependent)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Career advancement, with international mobility and professional development programs</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Learning and development, with access to cutting-edge tools, training and industry experts</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Our benefits are tailored to each location. Your Talent Partner will provide full details during the hiring process.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Your application process</span></strong></h3>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Once you apply, our Talent Acquisition team will review your application. Your CV should cover key information on relevant experiences and expertise. We do not require information such as age, gender, marital status, or a headshot in your application. We review all candidates based on skills, experience, and potential.</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">⚠️ Beware of recruitment fraud!</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We are committed to inclusion and accessibility. If you need reasonable accommodations during the interview process, please either indicate it in your application or let your Talent Partner know.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About Valtech</span></strong></h3>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Valtech is the experience innovation company that exists to unlock a better way to experience the world. By blending crafts, categories, and cultures, we help brands unlock new value in an increasingly digital world.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">At the intersection of data, AI, creativity, and technology, we drive transformation for leading organizations, including L’Oréal, Mars, Audi, P&G, Volkswagen Dolby, and more.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">At Valtech, we don’t just talk about transformation. We make it happen. Our people are the heart of our success, and we foster a workplace where everyone has the support to thrive, grow and innovate.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Are you ready to create what’s next? Join us.</span></p>
