Data Architect mit Databricks und Data Governance (w/m/d)

softwareXperts GmbH; München; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

softwareXperts GmbH seeks a senior Data Architect to own the data architecture for critical platform data products. You will guide integration patterns, ensure governance keeps pace with analytics and ML, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across lakehouse and event-stream environments.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in data architecture, strong data product thinking, and hands-on Databricks experience. This role offers full remote work with on-site days in Munich every two weeks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data architecture: modelling, governance, and integration.
• Strong data product thinking: datasets as owned, discoverable, governed.
• Hands-on Databricks including Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Delta Sharing.
• Experience with event-driven ingestion (Kafka).
• GDPR knowledge and cross-border data transfer considerations.

Responsibilities

• Own the target data architecture for claims and retail data products.
• Guide decisions on integration and sharing patterns; prevent ungoverned data movement.
• Prepare architecture decisions for the Design Authority.
• Ensure data governance keeps pace with analytics, ML and GenAI.
• Apply enterprise data architecture principles across lakehouse and event streams.
• Represent the domain in enterprise architecture bodies.
• Collaborate with platform, D&A, and application architects.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Data integration

Data product thinking

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Education

TOGAF or equivalent

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Delta Sharing

Medallion architecture

Kafka

Snowflake

Job description

Our client is an independent technology and transformation partner with offices in Vienna and Munich. The company focuses on platform design, software modernization, cloud engineering, and data and AI. In this project, you will design the data architecture for a global insurance platform belonging to an international corporation.

Full remote

1 day on-site in Munich every 2 week

Must haves

Nice to have

Wanted Expertise

• Consulting / Training - Training / Training (general)

Your Tasks

- Own the target data architecture for claims and retail: modelling, cataloguing, ownership and exposure as data products
- Guide decisions on integration and sharing patterns and stop ungoverned data movement
- Prepare and shape architecture decisions for the Design Authority
- Make sure data governance keeps pace as analytics, ML and GenAI build on the data products
- Apply enterprise data architecture principles across lakehouse, event streaming and operational stores
- Represent the domain in group enterprise architecture bodies
- Work with platform teams, Data & Analytics and application and integration architects
- No pipeline development, no reporting: you define the architecture data engineering builds against

Requirements

- 5+ years in data architecture: data modelling, data governance, data integration
- Strong grasp of data product thinking: datasets as owned, discoverable, governed products
- Hands-on experience with Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Delta Sharing, medallion architecture)
- Experience with event-driven ingestion, e.g. Kafka
- Experience with legacy-to-modern-platform migrations
- Working knowledge of GDPR, data residency and cross-border data transfer
- Enterprise architecture (TOGAF or equivalent), experience with Design Authority reviews and ADRs
- Strong stakeholder management across platform teams, engineering, compliance and multiple entities
- Nice to have: Databricks or cloud certification, insurance data (claims, retail), Snowflake or Celonis
- Excellent English