Senior Data & AI Platform Architect — Remote

Jobgether; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobgether is partnering with a client in the Netherlands to identify a senior Solution Architect — Data & AI Platform. The role focuses on designing modern data platforms built on Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog, with emphasis on AI-ready data products and enterprise analytics.

You will drive secure, scalable patterns across governance, metadata, and semantic layers while collaborating with engineering, data, AI, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• ,must have 10+ years of professional experience in solution/data/platform roles.
• Experience designing modern data platforms, preferably using Databricks, Delta Lake and Unity Catalog.
• Practical knowledge of AI/GenAI architecture patterns including LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector search, semantic search, model serving, grounding, and AI evaluation.
• Experience designing agentic AI workflows for data discovery, lineage, quality, documentation, troubleshooting, or platform operations.
• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with modern data engineering and analytics ecosystems.
• Experience with CI/CD and automation for data/AI platform development and deployment.
• Ability to balance innovation with governance, performance, and maintainability.
• Strong understanding of data quality, lineage, metadata, and governed metrics.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the overall Data and AI platform architecture using Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and modern lakehouse design patterns.
• Develop scalable architecture patterns that enable AI-ready data products, governed analytics, and enterprise AI use cases.
• Architect secure LLM and Generative AI enablement capabilities, including RAG, embeddings, vector search, semantic search, prompt orchestration, model serving, grounding, and AI evaluation.
• Design agentic AI capabilities that can support data platform operations, including metadata discovery, catalog enrichment, lineage analysis, and data quality investigations.
• Enable AI-assisted documentation generation, pipeline troubleshooting, automated test generation, and operational runbook support.
• Establish architecture standards for governed data products, certified metrics, semantic layers, and consistent business definitions.
• Define approaches for integrating metadata intelligence and semantic context into AI-driven analytics and data experiences.
• Establish secure, scalable, and maintainable patterns for deploying data and AI capabilities across the platform.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, AI, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into practical architecture solutions.
• Promote modern engineering practices, including automation and CI/CD, to support reliable delivery and continuous improvement of data and AI platforms.

Skills

Solution architecture

Data architecture

Platform engineering

Cloud & CI/CD

SQL

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Job description

Jobgether is partnering with a client in the Netherlands to identify a senior Solution Architect — Data & AI Platform. The role focuses on designing modern data platforms built on Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog, with emphasis on AI-ready data products and enterprise analytics.

You will drive secure, scalable patterns across governance, metadata, and semantic layers while collaborating with engineering, data, AI, and business stakeholders.