Hybrid Principal Consultant, Data Architecture

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About the role

  • Principal Consultant Data Architecture leading complex Data and Analytics projects in a hybrid environment. Responsible for designing enterprise data architectures and mentoring technical teams.

Responsibilities

  • As Principal Consultant Data Architecture, you act as the senior technical lead in complex data and analytics projects
  • You design and take ownership of holistic enterprise data architectures
  • You lead technical teams and serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients and internal stakeholders
  • You ensure enterprise data and analytics solutions are scalable, secure, and production-ready
  • You translate business requirements into robust technical target architectures and actionable delivery roadmaps
  • Define and govern target architectures for enterprise data, integration, and analytics in cloud and hybrid environments
  • Translate business objectives into scalable, secure, and compliant data solutions
  • Lead the design of comprehensive end-to-end data solutions (ingestion, integration, storage, security, processing, analytics, AI enablement)
  • Guide and support delivery teams during implementation, rollout, and production readiness
  • Serve as the senior technical point of contact for client architects, IT leads, and engineering teams
  • Mentor data architects, system architects, and engineers and contribute to best practices and reference architectures
  • Provide technical support for presales and solution design activities

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in enterprise data architecture, data integration, data engineering, or analytics
  • Proven experience leading enterprise data-architecture workstreams or technical teams
  • Strong client-facing and consulting experience in complex enterprise environments
  • Deep expertise in modern data architectures, in particular: Data Mesh / Data Fabric / Data Lake / Data Warehouse architectures, principles of modern data-architecture design, batch and streaming integration patterns, data platform, DevOps, deployment and security architectures, analytics and AI-enablement architectures
  • Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms, e.g.: Azure, AWS or GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Azure Synapse / Microsoft Fabric
  • Excellent SQL skills and experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
  • Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Cosmos DB, MongoDB, InfluxDB)
  • Solid understanding of API-based and event-driven architectures
  • Experience designing and overseeing enterprise data-migration programs (including mapping, transformation rules, data-quality measures, etc.)
  • Experience with data pipelines, orchestration, and automation
  • Knowledge of CI/CD concepts and production-ready deployments
  • Understanding of distributed systems; Docker / Kubernetes are a plus
  • Strong understanding of data management and governance principles, in particular: data quality, metadata, lineage, master data management, data management software and tools, security, access, and compliance requirements
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Fluent German (minimum C1) for client communication in the German-speaking market
  • Very good English skills
  • Willingness to travel for projects

Job title

Principal Consultant, Data Architecture

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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