Cloud&DataPlatformArchitect

**_Job Family_ :** Data Science & Analysis (India) **_Travel Required_ :** None ** _Clearance Required_ :** None **Position Summary:** The Cloud & Data Platform Architect, Life Sciences Technology, is responsible for defining and governing the secure, scalable data platform foundations that enable analytics, AI, and digital solutions across commercial, market access, patient services, and medical affairs functions. This role owns cloud modernization architecture, lakehouse design, ingestion frameworks, data governance alignment, and DataOps standards required to operationalize life sciences data in regulated environments. The architect ensures platforms are secure, resilient, cost-efficient, and production-ready — providing a reliable foundation for downstream analytics, GenAI applications, and enterprise integrations. This role balances hands-on technical design with architectural governance, ensuring consistent standards and repeatable patterns across engagements. **_What You Will Do_ :** * Define and maintain cloud modernization architecture standards, guiding principles, including network design, IAM/RBAC models, encryption, key management, logging, and audit controls. * Architect scalable lakehouse data platforms with medallion architecture principles (raw → curated → consumable layers) optimized for analytics and AI workloads. * Design ingestion and integration patterns supporting batch, streaming, and change data capture (CDC) across structured and semi-structured datasets. * Establish enterprise-grade DataOps practices, including CI/CD for pipelines, infrastructure-as-code standards, automated testing, environment promotion strategies, and release governance. * Define data quality frameworks, validation rules, reconciliation controls, and lineage standards to ensure trust and auditability. * Optimize platform performance, cost management, scalability, and reliability across cloud environments. * Define and enforce operational standards, including monitoring,