Data Platform Architect: AI‑Driven Data Mesh & Lakehouse

Allianz Services Gmbh Sucursal En España; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Bonus scheme

Pension

Employee shares program

Lifelong learning

Job summary

Allianz Services Spain is seeking a Data Architect to define architecture standards and reference designs for modern data platforms and AI integration. You will govern data products, support cross-entity sharing, and ensure alignment with Allianz Group data strategies.

Ideal candidates have 5–8 years in data architecture roles, experience with lakehouse/data mesh patterns, and cloud-native platforms such as Databricks or Fabric. Hybrid work arrangement offered across Spain.

Qualifications

• University degree required in a related field or equivalent experience.
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Responsibilities

• Define and maintain architecture standards, blueprints and reference architectures aligned with Group Data strategy.
• Translate complex architecture topics into consumable guidance for technical and business stakeholders and design modern data platform architectures (lakehouse, data mesh, self-service data platforms).
• Define end-to-end data flows from ingestion to consumption (BI, analytics, AI) and standardize Azure-based data platforms and cloud-native architectures.
• Support integration patterns for data catalogues, lineage and governance tooling; ensure alignment with governance and quality requirements.
• Define monitoring and telemetry patterns for data reliability and compliance and establish data contracts, quality controls, and lifecycle management for data products.
• Support reusable data product patterns and cross-entity data sharing guardrails within a structured delivery model.
• Contribute to AI/GenAI-ready data platforms and ensure governance-aligned architecture principles.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Cloud data platforms

Architecture documentation

Education

University degree in Data Science / Data Engineering / Computer Science / Mathematics / Statistics

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Delta Lake

Apache Iceberg

Informatica IDMC

Unity Catalog

Kafka

AsyncAPI

OpenAPI

Job description

Allianz Services Spain is seeking a Data Architect to define architecture standards and reference designs for modern data platforms and AI integration. You will govern data products, support cross-entity sharing, and ensure alignment with Allianz Group data strategies.

Ideal candidates have 5–8 years in data architecture roles, experience with lakehouse/data mesh patterns, and cloud-native platforms such as Databricks or Fabric. Hybrid work arrangement offered across Spain.