Senior Data Architect & Client‑Facing Tech Leader

Visa Hunt; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Thoughtworks is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead data engineering initiatives for client engagements in a leadership capacity. You will mentor a senior team, shape data architecture, and drive delivery excellence across complex data platforms.

You will collaborate with executives to align data initiatives with business goals, champion best practices, and grow Thoughtworks’ data and AI capabilities across client programs.

Qualifications

• Extensive pre-sales experience and ability to independently drive complex pursuits and create winning commercial proposals.
• Hands-on coding and leading a team, staying hands-on in core technologies.
• Experience in Domain-Driven Design for enterprise organisations.
• Experience building big-data architectures, data pipelines, and distributed storage systems.
• Deep understanding of data modeling and modern data engineering tools with cloud warehousing.
• Built and deployed large-scale data pipelines and data-centric applications in production.
• Experience designing real-time, low-latency streaming solutions (cloud and on-prem).
• Experience with data visualization and communicating insights to audiences.
• Experience defining data governance and security policies; knowledge of MLOps and data science concepts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with sales and pre-sales to clarify requirements, design viable solutions and drive complex pursuits with stakeholders.
• Establish a clear vision for the data paradigm and ensure alignment with business strategy.
• Engage with executives to understand strategic objectives and leverage data and data quality opportunities.
• Consult on complex data platform programs, align architectural concerns, and provide client-facing leadership as a data SME.
• Design and develop intricate data processing pipelines addressing challenging problems.
• Collaborate with data scientists to design scalable production models.
• Write clean, iterative code using TDD and enable continuous delivery of pipelines.
• Design and implement governance, security, and privacy strategies to support compliance.
• Grow capability by mentoring engineers and building the next generation of the team.
• Lead through influence to raise delivery standards and expand Thoughtworks' market presence.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Hands-on coding

Domain-Driven Design

Big-data architecture

Data pipelines

Cloud data warehousing

Real-time data streaming

Data governance & security

Mentoring engineers

Client-facing leadership

German language (C1)

Job description

Thoughtworks is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead data engineering initiatives for client engagements in a leadership capacity. You will mentor a senior team, shape data architecture, and drive delivery excellence across complex data platforms.

You will collaborate with executives to align data initiatives with business goals, champion best practices, and grow Thoughtworks’ data and AI capabilities across client programs.