Principal Architect

About the role

We're hiring a Principal Architect to lead the architectural vision, design, and evolution of Teradata's core database platform at enterprise scale. This is a senior individual-contributor role for a deeply technical leader who can shape long-term platform strategy, set engineering standards, and influence outcomes across global teams.

What you'll do

• Own performance and reliability – Drive query performance tuning, workload management, and system reliability
• Set technical strategy – Act as the principal database subject matter expert, guiding architectural decisions and shaping long-term platform evolution
• Lead through influence – Partner with engineering, analytics, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions
• Define what excellence looks like – Consistently deliver high-impact architectural outcomes, raise the engineering bar, and enable innovation across teams
• Join a high-performing, collaborative team of database and analytics professionals based in Hyderabad and across global locations

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• SQL
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA