Senior Data Architect | GCP, BigQuery, Terraform | 36h/w

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

Benefits offered by this job

Shorter 36h work week

Flexible start times

Work from anywhere periodically

Volunteering days

Staff travel discounts

Lifelong learning resources

Job summary

lastminute.com is seeking a Data Architect to lead the architecture of its modern data stack on BigQuery and related GCP services. Hybrid work from Chiasso, Switzerland, with a 36h/week schedule and a permanent full-time contract.

You will own ingestion layers, data governance, and observability while guiding engineers and analysts. The role requires strong IaC skills (Terraform), CI/CD, and fluent English, plus experience with Airflow, dbt, Python, and AI-enabled data solutions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and running data platforms on public cloud (GCP preferred).
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform and CI/CD; solid cloud IAM and networking knowledge.
• Experience with data warehousing, data modelling, and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture of modern data stack on BigQuery and dbt; define patterns and standards.
• Design and evolve GCP data platform architecture (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS).
• Own data ingestion layer from batch/CDC to event streams; ensure reliability, freshness, cost, and schema evolution.
• Define data access controls, cost efficiency, lineage, and observability; act as technical reference for engineers.

Skills

Terraform

GitLab CI

BigQuery

dbt

Airflow

Python

Kubernetes

AI agents

Cloud Run

Data governance

Tools

Airbyte

Debezium/CDC

Kafka

Cloud Composer

GKE

Job description

lastminute.com is seeking a Data Architect to lead the architecture of its modern data stack on BigQuery and related GCP services. Hybrid work from Chiasso, Switzerland, with a 36h/week schedule and a permanent full-time contract.

You will own ingestion layers, data governance, and observability while guiding engineers and analysts. The role requires strong IaC skills (Terraform), CI/CD, and fluent English, plus experience with Airflow, dbt, Python, and AI-enabled data solutions.