Senior Cloud Data Architect — Hybrid & Azure

Musgrave

Cork

Hybrid

EUR 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Musgrave invites a Senior Data Architect to define and own the data architecture across our cloud-enabled platform. You will establish standards, guardrails and reusable patterns that enable scalable, high‑quality data solutions for operational and analytical use cases.

Reporting to the Head of IT, Data & Analytics, you will work with business stakeholders to translate requirements into architectural blueprints, provide technical leadership to data teams, and drive governance, security and

Qualifications

5-7 years’ experience defining and delivering data architecture in complex enterprise environments.
Strong background in data platforms, data modelling and distributed data systems.
Proven ability to design scalable, cloud‑based data architectures, ideally in Azure environments.
Experience architecting solutions across data ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption layers.
Good understanding of modern data technologies (e.g. data lakes, lakehouse, cloud data platforms).
Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality, security and regulatory considerations.
Experience defining and enforcing architecture standards and reusable patterns.
Ability to translate business requirements into clear architectural designs and technical direction.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at senior technical and business levels.
A strategic mindset, with the ability to balance long‑term architecture integrity with pragmatic delivery needs.

Responsibilities

Define and own the data architecture strategy, standards and design principles across the data platform.
Establish reusable architecture patterns for ingestion, transformation, modelling, storage and access.
Ensure all data solutions align to agreed architectural standards, governance frameworks and data strategy.
Lead the design of scalable and maintainable data models and data pipelines, supporting both operational and analytical use cases.
Work closely with business stakeholders to translate requirements into high‑level solution designs and architectural blueprints.
Provide technical leadership and guidance to data engineering, platform and delivery teams.
Evaluate and guide the adoption of modern data technologies, tools and integration patterns.
Ensure architecture supports performance, scalability, security, governance and cost efficiency.
Drive standardisation and reduce fragmentation across the data landscape.
Act as a technical authority, reviewing and assuring solution designs across programmes and initiatives