Hybrid Senior Architect, AWS Data Management

at XL2 by Audi & Capgemini

• Job title: Senior Architect, AWS Data Management
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Amazon Redshift, AWS, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Heilbronn, Germany

About the role

• (Senior) Architect AWS Data Management leading development teams to create scalable AWS data architectures for the automotive industry. Collaborating with data owners and implementing management standards.

Responsibilities

• You lead development teams in the context of Data Management and design scalable, multi-tenant capable AWS data architectures with a focus on AWS DataZone and Lake Formation.
• You develop standards and policies for data access, sharing, and cataloging in close coordination with data owners and business units.
• You integrate external tools, such as Collibra, into the AWS environment to ensure seamless data management and high data quality.
• You promote decentralization and automation of data management tasks by enabling self-service solutions for teams and business units.
• You are responsible for creating, evolving, and rolling out principles and policies for handling data.
• You define, continuously update, and enforce group-wide (process) standards and policies in data management in close alignment with data owners, business units, and management functions.
• You contribute to or steer data management from decentralized projects and ensure ongoing coordination with the central Data Management team.
• You model business and data objects and integrate them into the group-wide data catalog using AWS DataZone.
• You are responsible for organizing, preparing, and moderating data-governance-oriented committees.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of AWS services in the data domain, particularly Glue, S3, Redshift, and RDS databases (ideally also AWS DataZone and Lake Formation).
• General AWS expertise (IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, KMS, EventBridge, Step Functions, Secrets Manager, ...).
• Experience leading development teams and implementing data domains and data products.
• Understanding of the principles, practices, and technologies of data management.
• Competence in managing and implementing data access and data-sharing processes.
• Experience implementing standards and rules for managing the data catalog.
• Knowledge of data quality and lifecycle management and implementing Data Governance KPIs.
• Solid understanding of business processes in complex automotive companies.
• Skills in integrating third-party tools (e.g., Collibra) into AWS architectures.
• Assertiveness with clients and the ability to act as a reliable guide in Data Governance and Data Management.
• Independent, structured working style and strong communication skills, with the ability to bring together diverse stakeholders — including across hierarchy levels.
• German and English language skills of at least C1 level are mandatory for this position.

Benefits

• Company car
• Stock and pension programs
• 3 months continued salary payment during sick leave
• Bike leasing (JobRad)
• Home office equipment
• 8 days of training per year
• Accident insurance
• Free beverages
• After-work events (e.g., laser tag, bowling)
• Public transport and childcare subsidies
• Table football (kicker)