Specialist / Sr. Specialist, Solution Architecture

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country

Job Number # Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

Brief introduction - Role Summary/Purpose :

• Colgate-Palmolive is looking for a Solution Architect to join its growing Global Analytics organization. As a Solution Architect you need to understand the business we support and will be responsible to provide direction to a team of engineers to ensure data needs to meet business demands in various functions.
• This position will establish Solution Architecture principles, build models of data that enable the implementation of the business architecture, generate diagrams displaying keydata entities, and produce an inventory of the data needed to realize the architecture vision.
• Our teams work on the latest data technologies in the Cloud space including Snowflake, BigQuery, DBT, Apache Airflow, Apache Iceberg, Spark and more. This position will be focused on building out and leading the vision for our external and internal data in our modern cloud data platform.
• The candidate should be comfortable in playing a lead role towards the evolution of technology deployments across the global footprint.

Responsibilities :

• Architecting Solutions
• Translate business needs into long-term architecture solutions in key data areas for syndicated, point of sale and indirect trade data
• Define, design, and help architect solution and coordinating and communicating with GIT Teams for implementation
• Define, design, and build data models for use by the business
• Evaluate reusability of current data for additional analyses
• Review object and data models and the metadata repository to structure the data for better management and quicker access
• Define how the data is stored, consumed, coordinated and led by different data entities and IT systems.
• Engage with the data management team in best practices for data sourcing, key data elements, data quality management and metadata.
• Engage with the data warehousing team in the migration to cloud warehousing
• Provide data initiatives, evaluations, and mentorship with projects in accordance to our corporate guidelines.
• Build expertise in diverse and emerging technologies and new architectural concepts and principles.

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
• 3+ years professional experience as a data analyst, Solution Architect, data engineer, or related role developing conceptual, logical, and preliminary physical models for an enterprise
• Experience with programming languages like Python, Java, SQL or Cloud technologies
• Experience working with cloud environments (e.g.- GCP, AWS).
• Experience working with cloud data warehousing (e.g.- Snowflake, BigQuery)
• Strong Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Willingness to gain training/certification in designated technologies

Preferred Qualifications :

• Database architecture and data warehousing experience
• Data management experience
• Project management
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g.- Docker, Kubernetes).

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

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