Senior Data Architect (Databricks & Lakehouse) – Hybrid Porto

iTRTech Group; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

iTRTech Group in Portugal is seeking a Senior Data Architect to define domain and enterprise data architectures, enabling analytics and AI through governed, reusable data products. This is an individual contributor role with architectural authority for assigned domains.

Hybrid work in Porto/Gaia with two onsite days. The ideal candidate has 4+ years in data roles, including 2+ years as architect, and strong experience with Databricks, Unity Catalog, Azure Data Services, and Data Vault modelling.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years in Data Engineering, Data Modelling, or Data Architecture, including 2+ years as a Data or Solution Architect.
• Strong domain and enterprise architecture knowledge, including dimensional, normalized, and Data Vault modelling.
• Experience with enterprise-scale Lakehouse and Medallion architectures, Databricks, Unity Catalog, and Azure Data Services.
• Ability to design reusable domain-oriented data products, data contracts, and source-to-consumer integrations.
• Knowledge of metadata catalogues, business glossaries, lineage, stewardship, data quality, and governance tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own conceptual, logical, and physical domain models and define Lakehouse modelling standards.
• Collaborate with product teams to define sources, business rules, attributes, consumers, and data contracts covering schemas and service levels.
• Design end-to-end data flows and integration patterns using APIs, streaming, batch, and SAP integrations; support legacy reporting modernization.
• Design semantic models, support ontology and knowledge graph initiatives, and advise AI teams on vector, graph-based, and hybrid retrieval architectures.
• Apply data governance by design, privacy, security, and lineage; lead modelling workshops and governance reviews.

Skills

Databricks

Azure Data Services

Data Vault

Lakehouse

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Azure Data Services

Job description

iTRTech Group in Portugal is seeking a Senior Data Architect to define domain and enterprise data architectures, enabling analytics and AI through governed, reusable data products. This is an individual contributor role with architectural authority for assigned domains.

Hybrid work in Porto/Gaia with two onsite days. The ideal candidate has 4+ years in data roles, including 2+ years as architect, and strong experience with Databricks, Unity Catalog, Azure Data Services, and Data Vault modelling.