Staff Data Architect: Snowflake & Lakehouse Leader

Creditsafe Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Private Healthcare

Company Pension

Annual Bonus Scheme

25 Days Annual Leave

Global company events

Job summary

Creditsafe is seeking a Staff Data Architect to own the data architecture across Data Cloud in our Dublin office. The role focuses on canonical entity models, identity resolution, lakehouse design, and governance, while remaining hands-on to guide Senior Engineers.

This leadership-level IC role drives technical direction, RFCs, and standards without people management responsibilities, offering influence and rewards aligned with senior technical leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in engineering roles with production data platforms.
• Experience operating at Staff, Principal or Architect level and providing technical leadership across teams.
• Expertise in data modelling, identity resolution and canonical entity design.
• Experience building/operating lakehouse and big-data platforms with Iceberg, Parquet, AWS Glue, EMR, PySpark, Athena, Redshift.
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks.
• Strong understanding of data governance, entitlements, PII handling and lineage.
• Experience designing data products and APIs for external consumption.
• Excellent written communication and ability to document architecture clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own an end-to-end slice of Data Cloud architecture, including models, resolution, lakehouse and governance.
• Drive multi-quarter technical roadmaps and write key RFCs and engineering standards.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product and Data Science to shape cross-team decisions.
• Oversee governance aspects like entitlements, PII, masking, consent and auditability.
• Define and promote best practices for data modelling, APIs and data contracts.
• Lead hands-on delivery of proofs-of-concept, reference architectures and reusable patterns.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and guide Architects while supporting engineering managers in technical direction.

Skills

Staff/Architect level experience

Data modelling expertise

Identity resolution & canonical entity

API design for data contracts

Architectural RFCs & standards

Cross-team collaboration

Strong written communication

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Parquet

AWS Glue

EMR

PySpark

Athena

Redshift

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Creditsafe is seeking a Staff Data Architect to own the data architecture across Data Cloud in our Dublin office. The role focuses on canonical entity models, identity resolution, lakehouse design, and governance, while remaining hands-on to guide Senior Engineers.

This leadership-level IC role drives technical direction, RFCs, and standards without people management responsibilities, offering influence and rewards aligned with senior technical leadership.