Societe Generale Global Solution Centre
Website:
globalsolutioncenter.societegenerale.in
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/societe_generale_global_solution_centre
Seniority: Not Applicable
Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
Job details:
Reference 2600022K
Responsibilities
Target Architecture & Modernization
- Define target architectures that are stable, scalable, and consistent across systems.
- Identify redundancies and complexities to propose simplification, rationalization, and modernization roadmaps.
- Reduce run costs of the information system and promote architectural frugality in overall design.
- Promote reuse of Group platforms, existing corporate assets, shared services, and standardized data capabilities when relevant, respecting standards and reducing technical debt.
- Assess transformation capacity and outline realistic, achievable transition paths. Support transition phases.
Strategy Alignment & Data Governance
- Ensure system alignment with corporate business objectives, data strategy, and Group IT roadmaps.
- Maintain cross-functional & technical consistency across data projects within the enterprise process landscape.
- Support data platforms by designing data flows, ingestion pathways, processing, storage, and exposure ecosystems.
- Provide technical architectural guidance for data-centric initiatives from initial design to final implementation in relation with data & functional architecture.
- Secure framework compliance involving data governance, data privacy, regulatory constraints, and standard management best practices.
- Integrate technical data architectures with the broader information system, including interoperability with applications, analytics, and reporting platforms.
Operational Impact & Documentation
- Produce gap analyses to assess technical and eventually functional impacts of architectural frameworks across IT domains.
- Identify technical risks and provide actionable decision-support inputs to enterprise stakeholders.
- Prepare architectural documentation and models to actively support architecture review processes and documentation
- Verify solution compliance with Group-wide guidelines by promoting platform-based design approaches, supporting standards IT products and integration.
- Manage technical inventories as the custodian of data asset records, documentation, and procurement validation processes.
- Generate technical inputs to support the formal drafting of Target System Proposals (TSPs) .and usage reference of technologies.
Collaboration & Trend Monitoring
- Act as a key interface between Data teams stakeholders, IT departments, engineering units, and data governance bodies.
- Communicate and simplify complex bank architecture and data transformation strategies within governance committees.
- Monitor technology developments in data engineering, technical regulations, and privacy rules to evaluate innovation experiments.
Required
Profile required
Experience:
- 13+ years of industry experience with strong technical skills
- Minimum 3 years of experience as an architect
Core Databricks & Cloud Infrastructure
- Databricks Lakehouse Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Databricks workspace organization, cluster optimization, Lakeflow Jobs, Databricks SQL, and Delta Lake storage internals including the Databricks AI capability.
- Cloud Architecture: Deep experience architecting scalable data platforms on cloud infrastructure, with a strong preference for AWS.
- Security & Governance: Hands-on implementation of enterprise cloud security standards (IAM, network VPCs/VNs, and encryption) paired with data governance tools like Unity Catalog and Collibra.
- Hadoop Migration: Practical understanding of legacy Hadoop-based data ecosystems to effectively guide modern cloud analytics migrations.
Data Engineering & Platform Design
- Advanced Data Engineering: Extensive background in building high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines, distributed data lakes, and modern lakehouse architectures.
- Spark & Databricks Optimization: In-depth knowledge of Apache Spark runtime mechanics, core DataFrame APIs, and performance tuning strategies for large-scale compute workloads. Propose optimization of Databricks architecture and usages.
- Enterprise Architecture Design: Advanced capability in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, with a proven track record of designing for massive scale, cost efficiency, and performance.
- Pattern Knowledge: Strong mastery of industry-standard architectural blueprints, integration frameworks, and enterprise software design patterns.
Leadership & Technical Stewardship
- Deep Technical Authority: Comprehensive engineering background within the data domain to confidently lead deeply technical design reviews and executive-level discussions.
- Engineering Mentorship: Passion for promoting software craftsmanship, CI/CD automation, and design best practices across distributed development teams.
- Architecture Representation: Exceptional high-quality modeling skills to visually represent complex current-state infrastructure and define future-state target architectures.
- Complex Problem Solving: Proven capability to investigate systemic production anomalies, manage incident responses, and engineer innovative fixes for complex data pipelines.
Preferred Certifications
- Databricks Certified Solutions Architect or Data Engineer Professional (highly preferred).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (nice to have).
Behavioral Skills
- Proactive communication that is clear, concise, and adaptive to multicultural audiences.
- Technical discussion facilitation to identify challenges, resolve deadlocks, and share innovative ideas with peers.
- Collaborative mindset that operates independently while acting in the bank's best interest. Challenges business and IT business propositions.
- Strong synthesis skills to listen effectively, simplify complex topics, and positively engage stakeholders.
- Continuous benchmarking driven by curiosity about external marketplace trends.
- Language proficiency Professional proficiency in English is required; knowledge of French is nice to have.Will be responsible for one or more technical domains in GBTO Good understanding of designing & architecting on Azure Hands-on experience on big data stack Experience driving end-to-end architecture for large distributed systems Hands-on familiarity with Java/C#/Python (preferably Java/Python) Good in RDBMS, MQ, caching, load balancing, service discovery, micro servic
Why join us
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status”
Business insight
Why Join Us
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status”.
Business Insight
At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!
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