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You design data architectures, take responsibility for technical decisions in client projects, and guide Data Engineers in implementation using Microsoft Azure, Fabric, and Databricks.
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Your role in the team
- We’re looking for people like you—and we want to grow together.
- Become part of our modern, hybrid work culture and choose which of our locations you’d like to work from: Gütersloh, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Leipzig, or Rostock.
- Additionally, you can work flexibly from anywhere, for example from your home office.
- Have you designed complex data platforms, taken responsibility for architectural decisions, and overseen their implementation through to production?
- Then help us shape our customers’ data platforms.
- As a Senior Data Architect in our Data Platforms & BI department, you will take on technical architecture responsibility in customer projects.
- You develop target architectures, justify technology decisions, and provide our Data Engineers with the technical guardrails for implementation.
- Our focus is on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and Databricks.
- You primarily work on external client projects, combining architectural expertise with consulting and hands-on technical implementation experience.
- The role involves functional and technical leadership without disciplinary responsibility for staff.
- Develop target architectures and roadmaps: You assess existing data landscapes, translate business and technical requirements into architectural concepts, and plan the modernization or migration of existing data platforms.
- Take ownership of architectural decisions: You design scalable lakehouse and data warehouse architectures and evaluate solution alternatives in terms of data integration, data modeling, security, performance, operational effort, and cost.
- Provide technical leadership for implementation: You align architectural requirements with the project teams, support technical reviews, and ensure architectural quality through to production launch.
- You validate critical architectural assumptions with prototypes when needed.
- Advise customers and support presales: You facilitate architecture workshops, present solution concepts to technical and business stakeholders, and contribute to proposals, effort estimates, and technical decision documents.
- Embed governance and operational readiness: You take data quality, metadata, lineage, access control, and data protection into account from the outset.
- Together with the teams, you develop concepts for deployment, monitoring, and operations.
- Develop standards and reusable solutions: You contribute project experience to our reference architectures and best practices, and further develop architecture components, templates, and automations.
- In doing so, you follow Microsoft architecture standards and our own technology framework.
- Use AI in project work: You use approved AI assistants for prototyping, code development, testing, documentation, and technical reviews.
- You review the results for technical accuracy, security, and compliance with the architecture, while taking into account the customer’s and our company’s data protection and confidentiality requirements.
- Enable analytics and AI and share knowledge: You shape the data foundation for Power BI solutions and support our AI specialists with requirements for data provisioning, quality, and security.
- You provide subject-matter guidance to project teams and empower customer teams to further develop and operate their platforms.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You have independently taken on architectural responsibility for complex, production-grade data platforms across multiple projects—as a Data Architect, Solution Architect, or in a comparable technical leadership role.
- You can use specific projects to explain how you developed target architectures, justified technology decisions, and guided implementation through to production.
- You can assess their suitability for different requirements.
- You have a strong command of the core principles of data warehousing, lakehouse architectures, and data modeling, as well as integrating heterogeneous data sources using batch and event-driven methods.
- You consider data quality, governance, security, and data protection as integral parts of the architecture, and understand the requirements for identities, permissions, and secure data access.
- You are familiar with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated testing from hands-on project experience.
- You evaluate architectural decisions in terms of scalability, availability, cost, complexity, and maintainability, and can clearly explain the trade-offs to customers.
- You confidently advise clients, facilitate workshops, and communicate technical decisions to a range of stakeholders.
- For this, you have excellent German language skills at C2 level.
Experience
- You have solid hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and in-depth project experience with Microsoft Fabric and/or Databricks.
- You have hands-on experience with SQL and Python and can make informed assessments of data processing and technical implementations.
- You have experience providing technical guidance to implementation teams, conducting technical reviews of solutions, and communicating architectural requirements.
What we offer
- Interested? Then apply via our online application form, including your CV and salary expectations.
- We want to be a fair and inclusive employer.
- We value the diverse perspectives that a diverse workforce brings.
- That’s why we actively seek people who enrich our company through their identity, background, and personal experiences, with or without a disability.
Benefits
Health, fitness & fun
Work-Life-Integration
Food & drink
Higher take-home pay
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About your employer
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- 250+ Employees
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- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
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