Senior Data Platform Architect - Dublin

eir business talent; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

eir business talent is currently seeking applicants for Senior Data Architect for our client based in Dublin. The role is titled Senior Data Architect - Data Platform & Architecture Lead and is based in Dublin with three days onsite.

You will define, govern and advance the enterprise data platform architecture, providing technical leadership across strategy, architecture standards and engineering delivery to ensure scalable, secure and compliant data solutions aligned with business priorities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture or related field.
• Proven leadership of large-scale data initiatives.
• Expertise in data lake and data warehousing design.
• Strong data modelling skills (domain-driven, canonical, dimensional).
• Experience with ETL/ELT, APIs and streaming/orchestration.
• Hands-on with Databricks and Spark; SQL proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture, roadmap, principles and standards for data platforms.
• Design scalable data lake, warehouse and data product architectures.
• Define domain-driven, canonical and analytical data models.
• Establish integration patterns across ETL/ELT, APIs, events and streaming.
• Provide architecture leadership for Databricks, Spark and IIoT data integration.
• Embed metadata, lineage, ownership, retention and data quality controls.
• Define secure, auditable access control and privacy patterns.
• Enable governed AI/ML through data readiness and model serving patterns.
• Guide CI/CD, version control, testing and deployment practices.
• Lead design reviews and coordinate vendors and teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Data lake design

Data modelling

ETL/ELT

SQL

Python/Java

Security & governance

Stakeholder management

Databricks

Spark

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics or related discipline

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Azure/AWS cloud

Job description

eir business talent is currently seeking applicants for Senior Data Architect for our client based in Dublin. The role is titled Senior Data Architect - Data Platform & Architecture Lead and is based in Dublin with three days onsite.

You will define, govern and advance the enterprise data platform architecture, providing technical leadership across strategy, architecture standards and engineering delivery to ensure scalable, secure and compliant data solutions aligned with business priorities.