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Lead Data Architect - Cloud, Analytics & AI

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  • Level
    Lead
  • Location
    Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Gütersloh, Leipzig, Rostock
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Field
    Data, Back End
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment

Job Summary

In this role, you will develop scalable data architectures for cloud data platforms and AI solutions, advise clients in workshops and projects, and integrate data sources into modern architectures.

Job Technologies

Your role in the team

  • As Lead Data Architect - Cloud, Analytics & AI, you will play a key role in our Data & Analytics division.
  • You design future-proof data architectures, further develop technical standards, and actively shape our portfolio around Cloud Data Platforms, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence.
  • You combine technological depth with consulting strength.
  • In client projects, workshops, and presales meetings, you act as a technical sparring partner, understand technical requirements, and translate them into viable, scalable solution architectures.
  • Your work lays the foundation for modern analytics solutions, AI-ready data platforms, GenAI use cases, and data-driven business models.
  • Design of modern, scalable data architectures for Data Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, analytics, reporting, and AI use cases.
  • Technical overall responsibility in customer projects, from architecture concept through design to quality assurance of implementation.
  • Consulting clients in workshops, presales meetings, and proposal phases on data, analytics, and AI architectures.
  • Translation of technical requirements into target architectures, solution concepts, and actionable roadmaps.
  • Integration and harmonization of heterogeneous data sources in central and decentralized data platform architectures.
  • Further development of architecture standards, reference architectures, and best practices in the Data & Analytics environment.
  • Close collaboration with Data Engineers, Consultants, Analysts, and Management Stakeholders, as well as active knowledge transfer within the team.

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Our expectations of you

Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of modern data architecture concepts such as Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Data Fabric, or Data Products.
  • Solid experience with Azure and ideally with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, Snowflake, and Power BI.
  • Expertise in data modeling, data integration, data quality, governance, security, and operation of modern data platforms.
  • Confidently meeting and representing architectural decisions to clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Enjoyment in consulting, moderating workshops, and developing technical solution ideas in presales.
  • Very good German language skills at C1 level and the ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly.

Experience

  • Several years of experience as a Data Architect, Solution Architect, Lead Data Engineer, or in a comparable role in the Cloud and Analytics environment.

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What we offer

  • Become part of our modern and hybrid work culture and decide for yourself at which of our locations you want to work: Gütersloh, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Leipzig, Rostock.
  • Additionally, you work flexibly mobile, for example, from home.

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Benefits

Health, Fitness & Fun

Work-Life-Integration

Food & Drink

Topics You Will Work On

Job Locations

  • Location Munich

    Bayern

    Germany

  • Location Cologne

    Nordrhein-Westfalen

    Germany

  • Location Leipzig

    Sachsen

    Germany

  • Location Gütersloh

    Nordrhein-Westfalen

    Germany

  • Location Hamburg

    Germany

  • Location Rostock

    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

    Germany

About Your Employer

Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA

Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA

Bertelsmann is a multinational enterprise that functions in roughly fifty countries across the globe. It comprises of RTL Group, Penguin Random House (a trade book publisher), Gruner + Jahr (magazine publishing firm), BMG (music business entity), Arvato service provider, Bertelsmann Printing Group, Education Division and lastly Bertelsmann Investments – an extensive array of investment funds.

Description

  • Company Size
    250+ Employees
  • Founding Year
    1835
  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Media, Publishing
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Lead Data Architect - Cloud, Analytics & AI

Location
Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Gütersloh, Leipzig, Rostock
Working Model
Hybrid, Onsite
Diversity
Open for all genders

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