Enterprise Data Architect

Enterprise Data Architect

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Genpact (NYSE: G) is a global professional services and solutions firm delivering outcomes that shape the future. Our 125,000+ people across 30+ countries are driven by our innate curiosity, entrepreneurial agility, and desire to create lasting value for clients. Powered by our purpose – the relentless pursuit of a world that works better for people – we serve and transform leading enterprises, including the Fortune Global 500, with our deep business and industry knowledge, digital operations services, and expertise in data, technology, and AI.

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Job Title : Enterprise Data Architect

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Job type : Fulltime

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Location : Deerfield, IL.

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Role Purpose :

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Lead the design and implementation of enterprise data architecture, with a strong focus on building a Databricks Semantic Layer. The role will establish reusable, governed business entities, metrics, dimensions, and measures to enable consistent reporting, trusted analytics, self-service data consumption, and AI-enabled use cases.

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Key Responsibilities :

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• Lead the end-to-end design and buildout of a Databricks Semantic Layer, translating business requirements into reusable semantic models, business entities, metrics, dimensions, and measures.

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• Define semantic models on top of the Databricks Lakehouse, ensuring consistent business definitions across reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.

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• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models and establish relationships across enterprise data domains.

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• Leverage Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and related capabilities to implement scalable, secure, and performant data solutions.

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• Establish standards for metadata management, business glossary, data lineage, access controls, and semantic governance.

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• Partner with business stakeholders, data engineering, BI, and AI teams to translate business concepts into reusable and trusted semantic assets.

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• Enable semantic-layer consumption through BI platforms such as Power BI and Tableau, as well as GenAI and natural-language querying solutions.

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• Define architecture patterns and integration approaches that support enterprise data products and cross-domain analytics.

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• Lead architecture reviews, technical design decisions, performance optimization, and adherence to enterprise standards.

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• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and guide implementation through deployment and adoption.

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Mandatory Skills & Experience

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• Demonstrable, hands-on experience designing and building a Databricks Semantic Layer. This is a non-negotiable requirement.

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• Strong expertise in Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake and Lakehouse architecture.

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• Practical experience creating semantic models, business metrics, dimensions, measures, relationships and reusable business definitions.

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• Strong understanding of enterprise data modeling, data integration and modern cloud data architectures.

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• Experience implementing metadata management, data governance, data lineage and role-based access controls.

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• Experience integrating semantic models with BI and analytics platforms.

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• Ability to engage business stakeholders and convert business terminology and KPI definitions into governed technical models.

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Preferred Skills & Experience

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• Exposure to knowledge graphs, ontology design and enterprise metadata frameworks.

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• Experience enabling semantic models for GenAI, LLM, natural-language querying or Agentic AI applications.

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• Exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP and experience in Pharma, MedTech, Healthcare or other complex enterprise environments.

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• Experience leading enterprise scale data architecture or transformation programs.

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Genpact is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. Genpact is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. Get to know us at genpact.com and on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Facebook.

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Furthermore, please do note that Genpact does not charge fees to process job applications and applicants are not required to pay to participate in our hiring process in any other way. Examples of such scams include purchasing a 'starter kit,' paying to apply, or purchasing equipment or training.