Senior Data & AI Architect — Remote-Ready

Zuehlke Engineering Vietnam LLC.; Schlieren; Hybrid; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit share

Work from home / flexible hours

Global offices and community

Job summary

Zühlke is seeking a Lead Data & AI Architect to design and implement data platforms and AI solutions across on‑prem and cloud environments. You will translate complex requirements into scalable architectures, enforce governance, security, and observability, and guide teams through productionizing ML, GenAI, and data products.

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders across German and English, contribute to pre‑sales, and help grow our data & AI capabilities while shaping sustainable software

Qualifications

• Proven experience architecting data & AI platforms and governance.
• Strong DevOps/DataOps/MLOps mindset with productionalization know-how.
• Excellent communication in German and English with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design sophisticated architectures for data and AI projects with team.
• Lead data engineering and ML operations to production readiness.
• Drive governance, security, observability, and reproducibility across platforms.
• Contribute to pre-sales and shape offerings in data & AI.
• Mentor junior colleagues and grow internal talent.
• Balance availability, flexibility, and security with business impact.

Skills

German language proficiency

English language proficiency

Education

Technical degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or comparable field

Tools

Python

Spark

Iceberg

Delta Lake

dbt

Kafka

Job description

Zühlke is seeking a Lead Data & AI Architect to design and implement data platforms and AI solutions across on‑prem and cloud environments. You will translate complex requirements into scalable architectures, enforce governance, security, and observability, and guide teams through productionizing ML, GenAI, and data products.

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders across German and English, contribute to pre‑sales, and help grow our data & AI capabilities while shaping sustainable software