Senior Principal Architect, EDT Data Architecture Strategy & Standards in Gurgaon, भारत

Stryker seeks a Senior Principal Architect to define enterprise data and analytics strategy, standards, and design patterns across a global Azure/Databricks Lakehouse ecosystem. This player-coach role combines hands-on architectural leadership with design authority oversight and direct engagement in solution delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define and own enterprise data and analytics reference architecture and multi-year roadmap across Azure Lakehouse
• Build and maintain working reference implementations, reusable blueprints, and executable standards with representative data workloads
• Co-chair architecture review board with formal approval rights; review artifacts and document Architecture Decision Records
• Personally design and build end-to-end batch and streaming solutions using production-grade engineering practices
• Review production code and pipeline design at pull-request level; assess performance, DBU efficiency, and mentor teams on improvements

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent
• 10+ years progressive data engineering, architecture, and analytics experience in large global enterprises
• Demonstrated hands-on design and implementation depth across Azure/Databricks Lakehouse platforms
• Expert proficiency in Azure, ADLS, Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows/DLT), and Power BI
• Proven track record defining enterprise architecture standards and operationalizing design authority processes
• Experience influencing technical decisions and redirecting in-flight designs across engineering teams
• Strong knowledge of data security, privacy, and regulated-environment requirements (GxP, HIPAA, PII/PHI)