Hybrid Staff Data Architect, IC Leader — Data Cloud

Creditsafe Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Company Laptop

Annual Bonus

25 Days Leave

Hybrid Work

Private Healthcare

Company Pension

Cycle to Work

Wellbeing Programme

Learning Budget

Conferences

Job summary

Creditsafe is seeking a Staff Data Architect in Dublin to own data architecture across Data Cloud. You will set direction, define canonical models, and drive governance, with hands-on delivery and mentorship. This IC role values technical leadership and architecture reviews.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product and Data Science to shape roadmaps and standards while maintaining practical, scalable data solutions across platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in engineering roles designing and operating large-scale data platforms.
• Experience at Staff/Principal/Architect level with cross-team leadership.
• Strong data modelling, identity resolution and canonical entity design expertise.
• Experience with lakehouse and big-data tech including Iceberg, Parquet, and AWS services.
• Hands-on with modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks).
• Excellent technical writing for architecture docs, RFCs, and reviews.

Responsibilities

• Own an end-to-end slice of Data Cloud data architecture (canonical models, resolution, lineage).
• Drive multi-quarter technical roadmaps and publish RFCs and standards.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product and Data Science to steer technical decisions.
• Governance at scale: entitlements, PII, masking, consent, lineage, auditability.
• Define best practices for data modelling, APIs, data contracts, testing and reliability.
• Deliver hands-on proofs of concept, reference architectures and reusable patterns.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and guide Architects and Engineering Managers on direction.

Skills

Python

AWS

Data modelling

Identity resolution

Canonical entity design

Lakehouse

Big-data platforms

PySpark

Data governance

API design

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Parquet

AWS Glue

EMR

Athena

Redshift

Snowflake

Databricks

Rust

Job description

Creditsafe is seeking a Staff Data Architect in Dublin to own data architecture across Data Cloud. You will set direction, define canonical models, and drive governance, with hands-on delivery and mentorship. This IC role values technical leadership and architecture reviews.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product and Data Science to shape roadmaps and standards while maintaining practical, scalable data solutions across platforms.