Data Platform Architect: GCP, BigQuery & AI (Hybrid)

lastminute.com; Chiasso; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

36h week

Flexible hours

Work from anywhere period

No-meeting Friday mornings

Learning platforms access

Volunteer days

Staff travel discounts

Leave options for life events

Job summary

lastminute.com is seeking a Data Architect to lead our data platform design. You will shape the data stack on BigQuery and dbt, manage IaC with Terraform, and guide ingestion from batch to streams.

The role requires experience with GCP, Cloud Run, and Kubernetes in a hybrid Chiasso setting, partnering with engineers and analysts to deliver scalable data services. You will act as a technical reference, drive architecture decisions, and contribute to cost efficiency, data governance and

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience designing and running data platforms on a public cloud, ideally GCP.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform and CI/CD, plus cloud IAM, networking and containerised workloads (Kubernetes, Cloud Run).
• Deep knowledge of BigQuery or a comparable cloud data warehouse: data modelling, partitioning and clustering, performance and cost optimisation.
• Hands-on experience with dbt and Airflow/Cloud Composer, and Python for automation.
• Fluent written and spoken English and ability to explain architectural trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture of the modern data stack on BigQuery and dbt, setting patterns and standards.
• Design and evolve the GCP data platform architecture (BigQuery, Airflow, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS) with IaC via Terraform and GitLab CI.
• Own the data ingestion layer from batch and CDC to event streams with reliability, freshness, cost and schema evolution in mind.
• Define cross-cutting foundations: access management, cost efficiency, data lineage and observability.
• Act as technical reference for data engineers and analysts, review designs and write architecture decision records.

Skills

Terraform

GitLab CI

IAM & Networking

Kubernetes

BigQuery

dbt

Airflow

Python

English

Tools

Cloud Composer

Airflow

Cloud Run

GKE

Job description

lastminute.com is seeking a Data Architect to lead our data platform design. You will shape the data stack on BigQuery and dbt, manage IaC with Terraform, and guide ingestion from batch to streams.

The role requires experience with GCP, Cloud Run, and Kubernetes in a hybrid Chiasso setting, partnering with engineers and analysts to deliver scalable data services. You will act as a technical reference, drive architecture decisions, and contribute to cost efficiency, data governance and