Lead Data Architect (M/F)

Airbus; Marignane; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Company restaurant

Transport facilities

Résumé du poste

Airbus Helicopters is seeking a skilled Data Architect to drive the Data Strategy within the Centre of Excellence for Data & Analytics. The role focuses on building scalable architectures, aligning with the Enterprise Architecture, and promoting standardized technology usage across the organization.

You will lead data modeling efforts, ensure data lineage and security standards, and collaborate with stakeholders to enable AI-ready data ecosystems in a complex environment.

Qualifications

• Advanced English and French language skills are required.
• Ability to address complex topics/environments.
• Autonomy and adaptability in a dynamic setting.

Responsabilités

• Provide the technical roadmap and scalable architecture to translate the Data Strategy into action.
• Define and enforce a unified catalog of approved technologies to prevent fragmentation.
• Coordinate the architecture community of practice across solution and data architecture teams.
• Ensure architectural roadmaps align with corporate strategy and risk mandates.
• Guide tool selection and metadata requirements before procurement and drive adoption readiness.
• Lead the design of complex relational and non-relational data models for transactional and analytical topics.
• Establish enterprise-wide standards for data lineage, metadata management, and security.

Connaissances

Advanced English

Advanced French

Autonomous

Flexible

Curious

Description du poste

Job Description

Airbus Helicopters' ambition is to make Vertical Lift the best choice to save lives, protect people, connect cities and reach any place. The Airbus Helicopters Data Strategy aims to deeply transform how we manage data within a highly complex and fragmented landscape, paving the way for the onboarding of future technologies. In this context, the Data, Analytics and AI Team has created the Centre of Excellence (CoE) Data & Analytics. The Data Governance organization within the CoE is responsible for maximizing data readiness for value creation in compliance.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Profile

• Autonomous, flexible, curious with good communication skills, entrepreneurial and customer oriented.
• Team player, team oriented and service minded.
• Ability to address complex topics/environments.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Advanced level of English.
• Advanced level of French.

Security Clearance

This position requires a security clearance or eligibility for clearance by the recognized authorities.

Benefits

At Airbus, we build the future together and your success is our priority. Expect a global, competitive, and transparent compensation package (including salaries, bonuses, profit‑sharing, participation, and preferred share ownership plan). We invest in your complete well‑being: professional development (training, mentoring, international mobility), health coverage, retirement, and a commitment to a supported work‑life balance (parental support, flexibility). Additional benefits include:

• A dynamic CSE (Social and Economic Committee) offering many advantages (company restaurant, children’s leisure center, associations and sports complex, travel allowances, etc.).
• Transport facilities: company shuttles or reimbursement of annual transport pass.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [e-mail] .