Cloud Data Architecture Lead (Databricks & Azure)

Softeq; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 327,000 - 373,000; Full time

Job summary

Softeq is seeking an experienced Cloud Data Architect to lead platform design and governance for data and analytics environments. You will review cloud deployments, define architecture roadmaps, and ensure secure, scalable data platforms across Azure ecosystems.

You will design data pipelines, governance models, and cost-aware compute strategies while coordinating with teams on environment promotion, security, and external access policies.

Qualifications

• +Must have: Databricks at platform level, Unity Catalog end-to-end, platform compute & consumption model, platform network isolation, medallion architecture, ingestion approaches, delivery and environment promotion, Azure at design depth, IaC (Bicep), external identity design.

Responsibilities

• Reviews your cloud environments: subscriptions, resource groups, networking, access and security models, workspace structure, compute patterns, storage, deployment, monitoring and cost controls.
• Produces recommendations on the platform path: modify environments, build new ones, or phased hybrid approach with risks, dependencies and costs.
• Decides workspace counts and catalog structure and how permissions interact with costs.
• Designs the target data architecture: raw, cleaned, curated, serving layers, feature layer for models, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, semantic layer, reporting support.
• Defines naming, ownership, classification and lineage conventions, and access rules.
• Designs the data security model: tables, locations, credentials, row filters, column masks, external consumption scope.
• Defines platform network model: VNET deployment, private access, removal of public exposure.
• Builds compute and cost model: cluster/warehouse types, policies, tagging, spend forecasting, chargeback.
• Designs production landing zone for external application: isolated subscription, VNET, private endpoints, external tenant, dedicated container registry and secrets store.
• Owns application and integration architecture: service layer, data consumption, external auth, perimeter, observability.
• Produces decision records and a traceability matrix from requirements to deliverables; leads architecture reviews.

Skills

Databricks platform

Unity Catalog

Azure architecture

Ingestion pipelines

IaC (Bicep)

Tools

Bicep

Azure App Service

Key Vault

Cosmos/SQL DB

Job description

Softeq is seeking an experienced Cloud Data Architect to lead platform design and governance for data and analytics environments. You will review cloud deployments, define architecture roadmaps, and ensure secure, scalable data platforms across Azure ecosystems.

You will design data pipelines, governance models, and cost-aware compute strategies while coordinating with teams on environment promotion, security, and external access policies.