Senior Data Platform Architect & API/Docker Lead

avec compétence GmbH; Ecublens; Hybrid; CHF 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Home office up to 2 days/week

Job summary

Photonics technology is seeking a Senior/Lead Data Platform Architect to drive the architecture, development and scaling of an enterprise data platform. You will bridge data engineering, full-stack application design and DevOps workflows to deliver scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and a central data lakehouse.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, deploy dashboards and automation, and mentor engineers while collaborating across engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Senior or Lead level experience owning data platform architectures and end-to-end pipelines in production.
• Proficiency in Python and ETL/ELT pipeline orchestrators such as Airflow, Dagster or Prefect.
• Experience with analytical databases such as PostgreSQL and DuckDB.
• Hands-on experience developing backend services and APIs with FastAPI.
• Strong foundation in containerization (Docker, Docker Swarm) and automated CI/CD workflows using GitLab.
• Experience utilizing AI agentic coding tools and LLM-based documentation servers.
• Proven capability leading technical roadmaps and mentoring engineers.
• English required.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and a central data lakehouse.
• Integrate operational, fab and product quality datasets across engineering teams.
• Design, build and maintain full-stack internal data applications and REST APIs with Python and FastAPI.
• Oversee application deployment with Docker Swarm and administer PostgreSQL database servers.
• Own company-wide GitLab CI/CD pipelines and security configurations.
• Define and execute the roadmap for enterprise data and automation initiatives.
• Deploy and scale dashboarding solutions, process automation and AI-assisted developer tooling.

Skills

Python

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

PostgreSQL

DuckDB

FastAPI

Docker

Docker Swarm

GitLab CI/CD

AI agentic coding tools

LLM-based docs servers

Mentoring engineers

English

Tools

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

DuckDB

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

GitLab

Docker

Docker Swarm

AI coding tools

LLM documentation servers

Job description

Photonics technology is seeking a Senior/Lead Data Platform Architect to drive the architecture, development and scaling of an enterprise data platform. You will bridge data engineering, full-stack application design and DevOps workflows to deliver scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and a central data lakehouse.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, deploy dashboards and automation, and mentor engineers while collaborating across engineering teams.