Data Architect

Your tasks

• Drive the design of a scalable data architecture aligned with costumer’s enterprise architecture and supporting a federated, domain-oriented data mesh approach. The architect must account for the semantic richness, traceability, and governance requirements inherent to this type of data;
• Direct the development of domain-level data products, ensuring they are discoverable, interoperable, secure, and aligned with business capabilities;
• Advise and oversee the implementation of robust data integration pipelines using Azure services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, and Azure Synapse Analytics, enabling decentralized data ownership and cross-domain data sharing;
• Contribute to FinOps practices by designing data architectures and pipelines that optimise cloud resource usage and cost efficiency across Azure data services;
• Influence data modelling standards to support advanced analytics, reporting, and AI/ML initiatives on the Azure platform;
• Contribute to the development of data governance, metadata management, and data cataloguing practices using tools like Microsoft Purview, ensuring traceability, lineage, and compliance with EU regulations;
• Ensure data quality, availability, and security by collaborating with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams, embedding protection and privacy controls into all architectural artefacts;
• Support the evolution of data strategy by advocating for product thinking in data delivery and promoting architecture patterns that align with cloud-native and data mesh principles;
• Conceptual and logical data models aligned with costumer’s business capabilities and the data mesh paradigm, ensuring clarity in data ownership and usage across domains;
• Data product specifications and architecture documentation, defining ownership, contracts, quality standards, and reuse mechanisms across business domains;
• Architecture artefacts illustrating secure, scalable data flows, including integration patterns and data sharing models that meet both operational and strategic needs.

Requirements

• University degree in IT or relevant discipline, combined with minimum 5 years of experience as a data architect or senior data engineer performing above key tasks;
• Experience with Data Architecture and domain data processing;
• Experience in the modelling and design of domain-specific data products;
• Experience using Azure services, such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, and Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Platform,;
• Experience using Microsoft Purview in data modelling, data governance, data management and data cataloguing practices;
• Experience with advanced analytics, reporting, and AI/ML;
• Excellent knowledge of data classification and protection;
• Knowledge of FinOps practices;
• Excellent command of the English language.

Daily rate: 390 euros/day

Note: We can only consider EU citizens for this role due to security clearance