Principal Architect

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing! _We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business._ **Job Description:**  * Evaluate the current technology landscape and recommend a forward-looking, short- and long-term technology strategic vision.  * Engage with senior technical leaders at the client site, becoming a trusted thought partner by understanding their challenges and providing strategic guidance.  * Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.  * Proactively understand client needs and align them with Fractal’s value propositions, proposing innovative and comprehensive solutions.  * Collaborate with offshore delivery teams and other multidisciplinary teams within Fractal to ensure seamless integration and delivery of solutions.  **Delivery Leadership (Added Focus):**  * Act as a **Delivery Lead when required**, ensuring end-to-end ownership of solution execution, quality, timelines, and client satisfaction.  * Drive **program-level governance**, including planning, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communication across workstreams.  * Step in to **resolve complex technical and delivery challenges**, guiding teams through ambiguity and ensuring timely resolution.  * Provide **hands-on leadership during critical delivery phases**, including architecture validation, performance optimization, and production issue resolution.  * Ensure alignment between **solution architecture and delivery execution**, balancing immediate delivery goals with long-term scalability and maintainability.  * Mentor and guide delivery teams, fostering strong engineering practices, accountability, and continuous improvement.  * Be willing to take a hands-on approach to understand complex contexts and underlying client requirements.  * Participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures.  * Provide technical architecture leadership and direction on projects, ensuring secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable platforms.  * Work with data engineers and data scientists to develop architectures and solutions.  * Assist in ensuring the smooth delivery of services, products, and solutions, while balancing immediate client needs with long-term technical strategy.  **Skills & Requirements:**  In-depth experience as an Architect with expertise in Google Cloud Platform and a passion for applying the latest technologies to solve complex business problems. An ideal candidate would have:  * 12+ years of experience in Data Engineering and Cloud Native technologies (including Google Cloud Platforms), covering big data, analytics, and AI/ML domains.  * Extensive experience with GCP tools and technologies, including BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Data Flow, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI, and Dataproc.  * Expertise in creating, deploying, configuring, and scaling applications on GCP serverless infrastructure.  * Strong knowledge and working experience in Data Engineering, Data Management, and Data Governance.  * Proven track record of delivering multiple end-to-end Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, or Analytics projects.  * Knowledge of general programming languages and frameworks, particularly Python and/or Java.  * Familiarity with general technology best practices and development lifecycles such as Agile and CI/CD, as well as DevOps and MLOps for more efficient data and machine learning pipelines.  * Ability to design and implement future-proof, complex global solutions using GCP services.  * Hands-on experience with foundational architectures, including microservices, event-driven systems, event streaming, and online machine learning systems.  * Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to adapt messages to various audiences and build consensus.  **Additional Delivery Expectations:**  * Proven ability to **lead large-scale delivery programs or workstreams** in complex, client-facing environments.  * Experience managing **cross-functional teams across geographies**, ensuring alignment and delivery excellence.  * Strong **problem-solving mindset** with the ability to dive deep into technical issues while maintaining a big-picture view.  **Preferred Qualifications:**  * Experience in container technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.  * Experience or knowledge of DevOps on GCP.  * Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Certification.  * Demonstrated ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments and build strong, lasting relationships.  * Hands-on approach and willingness to delve into technical details to understand the full context of a problem and ensure the best solutions are provided.  * Experience with AWS, especially in the context of hybrid cloud setups.  If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! ### **Hiring Related Queries** India: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Outside India: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) This inbox does not process resume submissions. 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