Lead Data Architect — Data Strategy & Governance

Airbus Helicopters; Marignane; Sur place; EUR 110 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

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Résumé du poste

Airbus Helicopters in Marignane is seeking a Lead Data Architect to drive the Data Governance program and enterprise data strategy. You will translate business goals into scalable data and analytics architectures, lead solution architecture oversight, and shape standardized technology catalogs to prevent fragmentation.

The role requires an autonomous, communicative leader with strong English and French skills, capable of navigating complex data landscapes and ensuring compliance with global

Qualifications

• Experience in data governance and enterprise data architecture.
• Strong knowledge of metadata management and data lineage.
• Ability to translate business strategy into data architecture.
• Proficiency in English and French.
• Security clearance eligibility or requirement.

Responsabilités

• Provide the technical roadmap and scalable architecture needed to translate the Airbus Helicopters Data Strategy to action, ensuring the foundation is reliable and AI‑ready.
• Define and enforce a unified catalog of approved technologies (bricks) to promote standardization and prevent architectural fragmentation.
• Coordinate the D&A architecture community of practice and provide oversight of solution architecture, data architecture and data engineering to ensure consensus on definitive models and platforms.
• Ensure that the architectural roadmap is aligned with the Enterprise Architecture's corporate strategy and risk mandates.
• Guide tool selection and integration (catalogs, active metadata, data quality tooling) by defining metadata requirements before procurement and by prioritizing people/process readiness for adoption.
• Lead the design of complex relational and non‑relational data models to support both transactional and analytical topics.
• Establish enterprise‑wide standards for data lineage, metadata management, and security to ensure compliance with global regulations.

Description du poste

Airbus Helicopters in Marignane is seeking a Lead Data Architect to drive the Data Governance program and enterprise data strategy. You will translate business goals into scalable data and analytics architectures, lead solution architecture oversight, and shape standardized technology catalogs to prevent fragmentation.

The role requires an autonomous, communicative leader with strong English and French skills, capable of navigating complex data landscapes and ensuring compliance with global