Senior Data Architect: Global Platform & Governance

Trafigura Group; Argentina; Remote; ARS 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Trafigura Group in Argentina seeks a seasoned Data Architect to own the data architecture and product delivery strategy for our retail and downstream business. You will design scalable, governed data platforms that translate commercial needs into robust, business-ready data products.

You will collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to bridge local context with the global data landscape, ensuring architectural quality and reliability of every data product you deliver.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or data platform roles, with senior experience.
• Hands-on with Databricks: Lakehouse, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and orchestration.
• Strong cloud experience across AWS and Azure storage, compute, orchestration, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data architecture for retail and downstream data products from ingestion to consumption layer.
• Define data modeling standards, platform patterns, and architectural principles across the data ecosystem.
• Lead the design and delivery of data products, ensuring they are reusable, well-documented, and fit for business consumption.
• Translate local business requirements into architecture decisions aligned with the global IT strategy and data governance framework.
• Act as the technical bridge between business stakeholders and global IT, ensuring local context is reflected in platform design.
• Drive data quality, lineage, and cataloguing practices across the full data landscape.
• Evaluate and recommend new data technologies, architectural patterns, and tooling approaches.
• Mentor and guide data engineers and analysts, setting architectural guardrails and best practices.
• Engage with global data and IT teams to align on standards, tooling roadmap, and delivery priorities.

Skills

10+ years in data architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring data engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Azure

Apache Airflow

Apache Kafka

dbt

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Job description

Trafigura Group in Argentina seeks a seasoned Data Architect to own the data architecture and product delivery strategy for our retail and downstream business. You will design scalable, governed data platforms that translate commercial needs into robust, business-ready data products.

You will collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to bridge local context with the global data landscape, ensuring architectural quality and reliability of every data product you deliver.