Senior Data Architect: Cloud-First Data Platform Lead

Accion Labs Europe; España; On-site; PHP 7,552,000 - 13,216,000; Full time

Job summary

Accion Labs Europe seeks a seasoned Data Platform Architect to lead strategic data architecture and platform vision across Microsoft Fabric and Azure components, including lakehouse, data factory, and Power BI.

You will mentor a DevOps and data engineering team, define governance and patterns, design scalable multi-region architectures, and ensure secure, compliant data platforms across complex environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise roles.
• 5+ years leading technical teams and architectural decisions.
• 5+ years hands-on with Azure/AWS/GCP.
• 3+ years with Microsoft Azure and Fabric, plus related data solutions.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures for mission-critical ops.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions.
• CI/CD, Azure DevOps, IaC (Terraform/ARM), and security controls.
• Experience with data quality, metadata, and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic data architecture and platform vision aligned with objectives.
• Design medallion data architecture and data mesh patterns for domains.
• Set standards for ingestion, processing, storage, access controls, and quality.
• Develop a multi-region, multi-tenant architecture for real-time analytics.
• Mentor Data Platform DevOps and full-stack data engineering teams.
• Oversee RBAC, security models, and governance frameworks.
• Guide integration between enterprise systems and external data sources.
• Drive CI/CD and platform observability, incident response, and cost optimization.
• Lead technical interviews and hiring to build a cohesive team.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Enterprise architecture

Team leadership

Cloud platforms

ETL/ELT design

PySpark/ SQL

Power BI / Qlik/Tableau

Data mesh

Data governance

Security & IAM

CI/CD & IaC

Azure Fabric

Azure Synapse

Hadoop/Spark

Delta Lake

Kubernetes

Terraform

Data quality frameworks

Monitoring/Observability

Tools

Azure

Azure Fabric

OneLake

Lakehouses

Data Factory

Power BI

Azure Synapse

Terraform

ARM templates

Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE)

CI/CD pipelines

Databricks / Spark

Purview

Microsoft Entra

Job description

Accion Labs Europe seeks a seasoned Data Platform Architect to lead strategic data architecture and platform vision across Microsoft Fabric and Azure components, including lakehouse, data factory, and Power BI.

You will mentor a DevOps and data engineering team, define governance and patterns, design scalable multi-region architectures, and ensure secure, compliant data platforms across complex environments.