Hybrid Senior Solution Architect, Data

at Knauf

• Job title: Senior Solution Architect, Data
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Vault
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Kitzingen, Germany

About the role

• Senior Solution Architect designing enterprise-level data architectures and leading data-modelling workshops for global building materials manufacturer. Mentoring architects and engineers to enhance data literacy and architecture maturity.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-level data architectures that ensure scalability, governance, and interoperability and architect reliable, traceable batch and real-time data-processing ecosystems.
• Lead data-modelling workshops, define standards for conceptual, logical, and physical design as well as create and maintain data-architecture documentation, blueprints, and reference models (enterprise party model and/ or Data Vault).
• Establish and maintain enterprise data-quality, lineage, and metadata standards while collaborating with security, governance, and compliance teams to embed robust data-access and privacy controls.
• Provide architectural oversight across data integration/ transformation/ curation workflows and ensure architectures support federated ownership, discoverability, and effective policy enforcement.
• Mentor and coach Architects (m/f/d)/ Engineers (m/f/d) to raise data literacy and architecture maturity while evaluate emerging trends in data management, governance automation, and semantic modelling.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Data Science, Computer Science, or Information Systems with several years of enterprise in data architecture, modeling, or data-engineering leadership.
• Strong expertise in data integration, modelling, and lifecycle management plus proven ability to define and maintain data-architecture standards within federated models.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Deep understanding of data-governance frameworks, lineage, and quality management as well as familiarity with data policies, classification, and access models combined with exposure to enterprise metadata management and catalogue frameworks.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills as well as experience with Agile, SAFe, or data-product operating models.

Benefits

• Permanent employment contract in a stable, successful family-owned company.
• 30 days of vacation, special leave for certain occasions, flexitime account with a broad time window for flexible working and weekly home office days.
• Discounts on various sports and leisure activities (e.g., fitness studio Iphofen, swimming training, soccer, etc.), as well as opportunities for active health promotion through our company doctor and occupational health and safety offers.
• Ample parking and access to public transport (train, bus).
• Individual onboarding days, company and team events.
• Individual support and promotion for part-time studies, further education and training.
• Discounts on well-known brands and reduced-price employee purchases.
• Using tax advantages while promoting your own health.
• Assistance with international relocation.