Data Architect – Hybrid & AI‑Ready Platforms

BearingPoint Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Pension contributions

Hybrid working

Wellness programmes

Gym/club subscription

Mobile phone

Job summary

BearingPoint Ireland is seeking an experienced Data Architect to join our growing Data & AI practice. You will lead end‑to‑end data architecture design across complex client environments, shaping robust architectures for analytics, governance, and data platforms.

In this client‑facing role, you will collaborate with stakeholders, delivery teams and platform specialists to ensure scalable, secure data solutions and strong delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a Data Architect in client‑facing environments.
• Strong data architecture and modelling across operational, analytical, and reporting domains.
• Experience designing data warehouses, lakehouses, data marts and semantic layers.
• Hands‑on data integration tooling (ADF/SSIS/Kafka/Talend).
• Strong SQL and scripting skills for data delivery.
• Experience across on‑prem, hybrid and cloud environments.
• Solid data governance, quality and security understanding.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, documentation, and workshops.
• Experience with modern data platforms (Fabric/Databricks/Snowflake).
• Experience supporting analytics layers (Power BI).
• Familiarity with AI‑ready data designs and data products.
• Knowledge of Agile/DevOps for data delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of enterprise and solution‑level data architectures for analytics and AI.
• Translate requirements into logical/physical data designs and patterns.
• Lead data modelling across conceptual, logical, and physical layers.
• Define and govern data integration and ETL/ELT patterns (batch/near‑real/ event‑driven).
• Lead data migration initiatives including mappings, quality, cutover.
• Embed governance, metadata, lineage, and security into architecture.
• Produce and own architecture artefacts: reference architectures, standards, design docs.
• Provide technical leadership across delivery teams and design decisions.
• Work within Agile/hybrid delivery models and dependencies.
• Support proposal development and solution shaping for clients.
• Contribute to pre‑sales and client positioning with accelerators.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Cloud/hybrid/on‑prem

Analytics readiness

SQL & scripting

Communication

Architecture governance

Agile/DevOps for data

Power BI integration

Modern data platforms

Education

Bachelor's or higher degree in a relevant field

Tools

ADF

SSIS

Kafka

Talend

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Snowflake

CI/CD for data

Data governance tools

Job description

BearingPoint Ireland is seeking an experienced Data Architect to join our growing Data & AI practice. You will lead end‑to‑end data architecture design across complex client environments, shaping robust architectures for analytics, governance, and data platforms.

In this client‑facing role, you will collaborate with stakeholders, delivery teams and platform specialists to ensure scalable, secure data solutions and strong delivery outcomes.