Data Architect / Engineering Lead

HeadHR; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

HeadHR seeks a Senior Data Architect / Engineering Lead in Warsaw, Poland, to design and build the data foundation for advanced technology programs. This role involves leading the architecture and integration of data across various systems and platforms.

The ideal candidate will have a mix of strong architectural judgment and hands-on engineering skills, enabling them to define the target-state data architecture and build necessary data models. Critical to ensuring scalable, trusted data across complex environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in data architecture and engineering.
• Strong knowledge of data ingestion and integration technologies.
• Experience with advanced analytics and AI.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the data architecture across various systems.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines.
• Integrate data from different sources and establish data models.

Skills

Data architecture

Scalable data pipelines

Data integration

Data governance

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

• Define and own the end-to-end data architecture across source systems, streaming pipelines, storage, transformation, APIs, and consumption layers
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines for structured, semi-structured, unstructured, and real-time data
• Integrate data from enterprise applications, devices, sensors, operational systems, third-party providers, and partner ecosystems
• Establish canonical data models and integration patterns across core entities such as assets, events, locations, products, devices, users, or operational processes
• Partner with security and governance leads to embed control, access, lineage, and quality requirements into the architecture
• Support use cases requiring real-time or near-real-time ingestion and processing
• Drive interoperability across fragmented technical and business environments
• Establish engineering standards, DataOps practices, monitoring, and reliability controls
• Enable downstream analytics, AI, simulation, and data product consumption
• Provide technical leadership across platform choices, implementation sequencing, and delivery tradeoffs

Kogo poszukujemy?

We are seeking a Senior Data Architect / Engineering Lead to design and build the data foundation for emerging technology programs. This role will lead the architecture, ingestion, integration, and engineering of data across enterprise systems, connected devices, operational platforms, partner ecosystems, and advanced technology environments.

The ideal candidate combines strong architectural judgment with hands-on engineering capability. They can define the target-state data architecture while also helping build the initial pipelines, models, and integration patterns required to support advanced analytics, AI, automation, and scalable data products.

This role is critical to enabling interoperable, scalable, and trusted data across frontier domains where data complexity, system fragmentation, and operational requirements are high.