We are looking for 20+years experienced candidates for this role.
Job Description
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The Director – Data Services will be a senior leader responsible for driving data architecture excellence, delivery leadership, and customer success across Reflections' Data Services portfolio.
This role requires a combination of deep technical expertise, delivery leadership, consulting capability, and business acumen. The successful candidate will be a hands-on enterprise data architect capable of designing modern data platforms while also leading large-scale delivery programs, building high-performing teams, supporting customer engagements, and ensuring successful outcomes across all Data Services initiatives.
The individual will play a critical role in helping customers build modern, scalable data ecosystems while strengthening Reflections’ reputation as a trusted partner for data modernization and analytics transformation.
Responsibilities include:
Data Architecture Leadership
- Define and drive the overall data architecture strategy, standards, frameworks, and best practices across customer engagements.
- Design modern data platforms including data lakes, lakehouses, data warehouses, real-time data platforms, and cloud-native analytics ecosystems.
- Establish reference architectures, reusable frameworks, accelerators, and implementation methodologies.
- Lead architecture reviews and provide technical governance across strategic customer programs.
- Ensure architecture decisions align with business goals, scalability requirements, security standards, and operational objectives.
- Provide hands-on leadership and guidance for complex architecture and technology decisions.
Data Services Delivery Leadership
- Own successful delivery of Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Data Platform Modernization, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, and related services engagements.
- Establish delivery governance models, quality standards, risk management frameworks, and operational best practices.
- Drive predictable delivery outcomes, customer satisfaction, and long-term account success.
- Collaborate with delivery, engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure successful project execution.
- Review project health, delivery performance, resource utilization, and customer outcomes.
- Ensure adherence to delivery commitments, timelines, quality standards, and financial objectives.
Customer Engagement and Consulting
- Serve as a trusted advisor to CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and senior business stakeholders.
- Lead architecture assessments, discovery workshops, and transformation roadmap engagements.
- Provide strategic consulting on data modernization, cloud migration, analytics, governance, and enterprise data strategy.
- Build long-term relationships with customers and support account growth initiatives.
- Participate in executive reviews and strategic customer discussions.
Pre-Sales and Solutioning
- Support strategic pursuits, proposals, RFP responses, and customer presentations
- Lead solution architecture discussions during business development cycles.
- Collaborate with sales and account management teams to develop differentiated solutions.
- Participate in customer workshops, technical presentations, and executive briefings.
- Provide effort estimates, delivery approaches, and solution recommendations for prospective engagements.
Talent Leadership
- Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of data architects, data engineers, analytics specialists, and technical leaders.
- Establish competency frameworks, learning paths, and technical career progression models.
- Foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Participate in leadership hiring and succession planning initiatives.
- Coach and mentor emerging technical leaders across the organization.
Primary Skills :
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 20+ years of experience in enterprise technology, with significant experience in data architecture, data engineering, analytics, and delivery leadership.
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale enterprise data transformation initiatives.
- Experience leading customer-facing consulting and delivery engagements.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and modern cloud-based data ecosystems.
- Demonstrated success in leading delivery organizations and managing large, distributed teams.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive engagement skills.
Technical Expertise
Strong experience in:
- Enterprise Data Architecture
- Data Engineering
- Data Warehousing
- Data Lakes and Lakehouse Architectures
- Data Governance
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Data Quality Management
- Metadata Management
- Business Intelligence and Reporting
- Advanced Analytics
- Real-Time and Streaming Data Platforms
- API-Based Data Integration
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Data Security and Compliance
Experience with leading technology platforms such as:
- Microsoft Azure Data Services
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- Microsoft Fabric
- Informatica
Leadership Competencies
- Strategic thinker with strong business orientation.
- Hands-on technical leader who remains actively involved in architecture and solution design.
- Strong delivery and execution mindset.
- Ability to influence customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Strong mentoring and people leadership capabilities.
- Ability to balance architecture leadership with delivery accountability.
- Customer-focused with a commitment to quality and operational excellence.
Job Details
Role:
Director – Data Services Delivery
Location :
9A2, CARNIVAL TECHNOPARK, TRIVANDRUM
Close Date :
26-06-2026
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