Associate Director, Data Architecture

Role : Associate Director, Data Architecture

Position Type : Full-Time Contract (40hrs / week)

Contract Duration : 3 Months+ (with a possibility of Contract-to-Hire)

Work Hours : IST

Work Schedule : 8 hours / day (Mon-Fri)

Location : Ahmedabad, India (5days / week)

We are seeking a strategic, hands-on Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture and drive digital transformation across Marketing, Product, Finance, Supply Chain, and global business teams. This role will define the company’s data vision, architect scalable platforms, and guide engineering teams while influencing cross-functional stakeholders. Experience in CPG / FMCG data, marketing technology, and advanced analytics is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture strategy, roadmap, and standards.
• Lead data governance, quality, privacy, and compliance initiatives (GDPR / CCPA).
• Architect modern data platforms including data lakes, warehouses, and streaming solutions (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Kafka).
• Ensure architecture supports marketing technologies and commercial analytics (CDP, MMM, ProfitSphere).
• Partner with Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, R&D, and IT to integrate data sources and enable business impact.
• Optimize cloud data flows, pipelines, storage, metadata, and observability.
• Drive AI / ML enablement for forecasting, personalization, and advanced analytics.
• Lead and mentor data engineering and analytics teams through influence.
• Manage vendor relationships and evaluate new data tools / technologies.
• Provide executive-level reporting and architectural recommendations.

Required Qualifications