Data Architect

• *Job Title: Data Architect**

• *Location**: Coimbatore, India

• *About the company:**

• *NovintiX** is a fast\-growing engineering and digital transformation company serving top Life Sciences, MedTech, and Healthcare clients across the US, Ireland, and Europe. We specialise in delivering high\-impact digital programs, engineering services, and talent solutions that accelerate innovation, efficiency, and compliance.

• *Role overview:**

Define the target data architecture, integration patterns, governance and technical standards required to support Nextern’s manufacturing, quality, supply\-chain analytics and digital engineering initiatives.

• *Key responsibilities:**

• Assess source systems, data ownership, integration constraints, data volumes, reporting needs and current data infrastructure.
• Design target data architecture, including ingestion, staging, curated data layers, storage, semantic/reporting layers and data consumption patterns.
• Define integration patterns for ERP and other approved business systems, considering APIs, OData, database extracts and batch/incremental processing as appropriate.
• Establish data modeling standards, master/reference data approach, metadata, lineage, data quality controls and naming conventions.
• Define security, access control, sensitive\-data handling, auditability, environment separation and operational monitoring requirements with Nextern IT/security.
• Guide Data Engineers on source\-to\-target mappings, pipeline design, transformation patterns, performance and error recovery.
• Ensure architecture can support prioritized use cases across BOM/UoM/routing, quality reporting, supply\-chain analytics and potential MES/CMMS/component lifecycle data.
• Evaluate platform and technology options against Nextern’s existing environment, without assuming a specific platform before discovery.
• Review architecture decisions, technical designs and non\-functional requirements; identify risks, dependencies and implementation trade\-offs.
• Support technical governance, design reviews, deployment readiness, documentation and knowledge transfer.

• *Required experience:**

• Relevant experience: 8–12 years of relevant experience.
• Educational qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical discipline. A master’s degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science or Enterprise Architecture is an advantage.
• 8–12 years in data engineering, data platform design, integration architecture or related roles.
• Strong experience with data architecture, data modeling, SQL/data platforms and integration design.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT, APIs, batch/incremental processing, data quality and lineage.
• Experience defining security, scalability, reliability, monitoring and maintainability requirements.
• Ability to guide technical teams and communicate architecture decisions to business and IT stakeholders.

• *Preferred qualifications:**

• Experience in manufacturing, supply\-chain, quality or regulated\-industry data environments.
• Exposure to cloud data platforms, lakehouse/warehouse architectures, BI semantic models and orchestration tools.
• Experience integrating ERP, MES, CMMS, PLM or eQMS systems.

• *Application process / equal opportunity statement:**

To apply for this position, please submit your application through job portals or by email to hiring@novintix.com. Applications received through these channels will be reviewed, and shortlisted candidates will be contacted for screening and interview rounds. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps.

NovintiX Technologies is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Work Location: In person