Senior Data & AI Architect Manager

Faerch A/S; Siemianowice Śląskie; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Faerch A/S, a leading international packaging company, seeks a senior data/AI architect to own and evolve the data platform across ERP, MES, CRM, and finance. You will define standards, govern data, and lead AI-enabled initiatives while collaborating with stakeholders and delivery partners to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.

You will drive architectural direction, mentor engineers, and ensure trusted, compliant data foundations to support Faerch's digital transformation and

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a data architect or senior technical lead.
• Strong data modelling across dimensional, normalised, and layered models.
• Deep understanding of data flows in manufacturing and ERP/CRM contexts.
• Experience consolidating data from multiple systems into analytics-ready foundations.
• Hands-on with modern data platforms, preferably Microsoft Fabric.
• Experience with integration patterns – APIs, streaming, ETL/ELT.
• Practical data governance, quality, master data, lineage, and security.
• Knowledge of AI tech including LLMs, agents, RAG and prompt engineering.
• Ability to define roadmaps and communicate architecture to all audiences.
• Strong business mindset to identify value from technology.
• Minimum 5 years in senior data/architecture/analytics roles.
• Excellent stakeholder management across all levels.
• Strong communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise data architecture across source systems, data warehouse layers, and consumption.
• Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models across ERP/MES/CRM.
• Define and enforce architectural standards for integration, data modelling, security.
• Set direction for data governance, quality, lineage, and access management.
• Lead AI initiatives—LLMs, agents, RAG, data products, and pipelines.
• Translate business needs into prioritized data/AI roadmaps and scalable solutions.
• Lead hands-on work in pipelines, performance, cost, and troubleshooting.
• Act as technical lead for the data team and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, developers, and external delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve processes.

Skills

Data architecture

English communication

Stakeholder management

Leadership skills

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

ETL/ELT tools

Job description

Faerch is an international business, powered by strong people. We are passionate about our products and purpose to lead the food packaging industry into true circularity.

We hire to elevate. This means that we bring in people who share our dedication to raising the bar. People that continuously strive to develop.

Job Description

Tasks

Own and evolve the enterprise data architecture – source systems, integration patterns, data warehouse layers, and the consumption layer – and keep the target architecture and roadmap documented and up to date.

Design, build, and maintain trusted conceptual, logical, and physical data models across ERP, MES, CRM, finance, supply chain, and operational systems, including master data and shared business definitions.

Define and enforce architectural standards for integration, data modelling, naming, security, and platform use, and review solutions delivered by internal teams, consultants, and external partners against them.

Set the direction for data governance, data quality, lineage, and access management, so that data across the business is documented, trusted, and compliant.

Design the architecture behind practical AI initiatives – LLMs, AI agents, RAG architectures, automation, and prompt engineering – including the data products, semantic and vector layers, and integration patterns they depend on.

Translate business needs into prioritized data, analytics, and AI roadmap, and into scalable solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.

Work hands-on in the platform with modelling, pipelines, performance, cost, and troubleshooting across the full consolidation landscape.

Act as technical lead for the data team – setting technical priorities, reviewing work, mentoring engineers and analysts, and supporting people in achieving ambitious goals.

Work closely with business stakeholders, developers, data engineers, consultants, and external delivery teams.

Challenge inefficient ways of working and identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve business processes.

Skills

Proven experience as a data architect, or in a comparable senior technical role, with end-to-end responsibility for architecture in a complex system landscape.

Strong data modelling skills across dimensional, normalised, and layered (e.g. medallion or data vault) approaches, and the judgement to know when to apply which.

Strong understanding of data flows in a manufacturing business and how operational, financial, commercial, and management information connects.

Experience consolidating data from multiple systems and business functions into a consistent foundation for analytics, reporting, process optimisation, and AI-driven solutions.

Hands-on expertise in modern data platforms, preferably Microsoft Fabric, with the ability to contribute directly to architecture, data engineering, analytics, troubleshooting, and implementation.

Experience with integration architecture and patterns – APIs, event and streaming, and batch ETL/ELT – across ERP, MES, and other operational systems.

Practical experience with data governance, data quality, master data, lineage, and security and access models.

Good understanding of modern AI technologies, including LLMs, AI agents, RAG architectures, automation, and prompt engineering, and of what these require from the underlying data architecture.

Ability to set technical direction and roadmaps, and to document and communicate architecture so that both technical and business audiences can act on it.

Practical ability to distinguish genuine business opportunities from technology hype and focus on measurable business outcomes.

At least 5 years of experience in a senior data, architecture, or analytics role, including technical leadership of teams and steering of external delivery partners.

Strong ownership, delivery focus, and ability to follow initiatives through to completion in changing environments.

Excellent stakeholder management skills across all levels of the organisation and with external delivery partners.

Strong communication skills in English.

Powers of the Position and success criteria

You own the architectural decisions for Faerch's data platform – data models, integration patterns, and platform standards – with the mandate to set and enforce them across internal teams and external delivery partners.

Within your first 6–12 months, you will have established yourself as a trusted data and AI architect, with a documented target architecture and clarity around Faerch's data foundation, priority use cases, and delivery roadmap.

You will have consolidated key data sources into governed, well-modelled data products, improved confidence in reporting and analytics, and moved selected AI initiatives from idea to implementation and business adoption.

Your work will support better decisions, more efficient processes, and a stronger digital foundation for Faerch's continued development.

About the Team

What is is like to be part of Faerch Group?

Working at Faerch means becoming part of an international organisation committed to ensuring a sustainable future by creating true circularity in food packaging. Our organisation is made up of dedicated individuals working together to achieve our purpose and continuously strenghten our business.

We believe that individual growth is essential to our collective success, and you can expect support for your professional and personal development.

Job Info

• Job Identification 477
• Job Category Information Technology
• Posting Date 10/26/2026, 03:43 PM
• Apply Before 11/30/2026, 12:00 AM
• Job Schedule Full time