Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Data Architect
Work Location: Kochi, Coimbatore, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune
Experience- 12-20 years
Who are we Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquarters in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6000+ associates, with engineers in 12 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. For over 25 years. In India, our delivery centers are based in Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Coimbatore and Kochi. Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility on a scale.
Mission: To serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, Growth: Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint
Role Overview The role
You will be responsible for designing and implementing the solution architecture to ensure alignment with business goals and objectives. This role involves analysing the current technology infrastructure, identifying areas for improvement, and developing plans to enhance efficiency, scalability, and security. You will need to understand our technology strategy and collaborate with stakeholders, IT teams, and vendors, to develop comprehensive architectural solutions that support the long- term vision.
You will be required to maintain your core knowledge of wider technology trends and the technology ecosystem; build roadmaps and solutions; and govern relevant tech choices within the Firm.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain extensive Azure, Databricks and Data architecture and solution design skills, providing SME input to projects and/or run/build
- Build and maintain all-round competence in Cloud, and relevant Application, Integration, Data and Security technologies
- Maintain a high level of technical knowledge current, emerging and future technology market trends and their impact on the business
- Develop and maintain expert knowledge of technology ecosystem, the main applications and technologies that support Audit
- If required, provide advice to and/or seek to learn from other Member Firms, client teams and/or clients that are seeking to implement or improve their use of specific technologies and/or methods
- Create and develop relevant documents – POC, reference architecture, roadmaps and other key architecture artefacts
- Create and maintain a detailed view of existing designs to help manage the transition to future state
- Identify business/project risk and mitigate or communicate as necessary
- Carry out additional duties as may occur from time to time as instructed and agreed by leadership
- Develop relationships within the business and technology functions
- Ensure that product roadmaps are aligned to the larger strategy and the Firm's Digital Strategy, and are coherent with those of other Capabilities and technology domain roadmaps
- Work with Capability CTOs, technical SMEs and specific projects to analyse and translate business requirements into technical requirements, ensuring that these are feasible
- Ensure that Solution Architects produce designs that are fit for purpose, adhere to relevant standards and patterns, leverage reusable components, and are coherent with wider tech domains
Skills and experience
- Proven expert knowledge of architecture design relating to Data
- Strong understanding of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Cloud hosting and integration technologies
- Business focused, with the ability to communicate and convey messages to both technical and business stakeholders
- Good knowledge of at least 2-3 other domains in Infrastructure, Networking, Security, and Integration
- Good knowledge of EA governance steps required, e.g., Info Sec approval, conceptual and solution architecture reviews, pen tests, code reviews and service acceptance criteria
- Strong experience in Enterprise and Solution Architecture roles
- A high level of general, technical knowledge current, emerging and future technology market trends and their impact on business
- Good understanding of project management concepts, Gantt charts/plans, risks, assumptions, and dependencies, etc.
- Ability to leverage networks in , g., to tap into additional expertise if required
- Good understanding of technical debt, its causes, how to measure it, and remedial actions. decommissioning
- Experience of working with project teams both onshore and/or offshore
- Comfortable working with ambiguity at the beginning of projects, with ability to provide clarity of direction despite this
- Mentor and coach junior colleagues where necessary
Desirable
- Knowledge of Databricks
- Knowledge of AWS and GCP
- Bring fresh ideas to the team and wider firm, g. new software, containerisation or automation (e.g. infra as code) of existing infrastructure and projects
- Practical understanding of GDPR and ISO 27001
- Qualified in ITIL and TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)
Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
What We Offer
- A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits
- The opportunity to work on challenging problems with a talented, diverse
- A dedicated budget for professional development, conferences, and
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid work
- A dynamic and innovative work environment where your technical vision will shape the future of our
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as moderately satisfactory overall, with pockets where compensation is viewed as fair, particularly for some software engineering and certain U.S. roles. Public snapshots also indicate that competitiveness can be stronger in specific markets and functions.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Performance-linked outcomes are implied through mentions that hikes can be good when performance is demonstrated. Learning and development programs are also emphasized as part of the broader value proposition tied to career growth.
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Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise. Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
