Senior Data Architect

About the role

SoftwareOne is hiring a Senior Data Architect for its Data and Artificial Intelligence team. The role designs and evolves data solutions for diverse client and business environments, leads high-impact architecture decisions and helps strengthen the practice's technical standards. The position promotes the inclusion of people with disabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Define and evolve scalable data, governance and AI architectures, establishing reusable standards and patterns.
• Lead solution design for strategic opportunities, aligning architecture with client needs and business objectives.
• Drive architectural decisions across Microsoft Fabric, Azure, AWS and Databricks, balancing scalability, cost, risk and business value.
• Act as a technical advisor, communicating recommendations to stakeholders and mentoring the team.

Required profile

• Solid experience defining and designing end-to-end enterprise data architectures, from business needs to defending solutions before technical and executive stakeholders.
• Experience designing Generative AI solutions and modern data architectures, including RAG, embeddings and vector databases, and documenting architecture decisions and standards.
• Strategic thinking and technical leadership, with the ability to influence decision-making and work with technical, business and executive stakeholders.

Required skills

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, OneLake, Power BI, SQL, PySpark/Spark).
• Ability to design solutions with AWS Data Services and Databricks in multicloud environments.
• Advanced knowledge of data governance, including Microsoft Purview, data catalogs, lineage, classification and DAMA-DMBOK.
• Certifications such as DP-600, AWS Certified Data Engineer, PL-300, AI-900 or AWS Certified AI Practitioner are highly valued.

What we offer

• Health and well-being support.
• Continuous learning and career development.
• Performance-based incentives and employee share participation.
• Flexible and hybrid work models.
• Engagement in global projects within a worldwide organisation of around 12,000 people.