Strategic Sourcing Lead in Pune

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . Job Title: Distinguished Engineer - Data Architect Role Overview: We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer- Data Architect to design and build the data foundation for our AI-driven security platform. In this role, you will own the architectural blueprint and core implementation of our data strategy, transforming massive streams of high-velocity network traffic logs, customer configurations, and security alerts into high-performance, ML-ready data fabrics. As part of a lean, elite three-person Data & AI team, you will serve as the ultimate technical authority on data scale, streaming architecture, multi-tenant security, and cost-efficient storage systems. Key Responsibilities: Architect the Core Data Platform: Design, implement, and evolve a unified blueprint for streaming and batch data processing capable of ingesting, normalizing, and storing petabyte-scale, high-velocity security telemetry. Enable AI & Advanced Analytics: Partner directly with the Lead AI Engineer to architect the underlying storage, retrieval systems, and feature stores—including optimal vector database structures and data la