Data Architect (f/m/d)

"We energize society" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

As a Data Architect in the Scalable Core team, you will design the data architecture powering our AI, ML, and GenAI platforms. You’ll enable secure, efficient data flows across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments, and define models, governance, and standards in collaboration with engineering, MLOps, and platform teams. Your work will drive the performance, reliability, and trust of all our data-driven solutions.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Design and evolve end-to-end data architectures for ingestion, processing, storage, and access across hybrid environments.
• Define robust data models, APIs, and metadata strategies to support AI/ML, analytics, and backend service use cases.
• Establish data quality, lineage, and compliance frameworks to ensure secure and trustworthy data use.
• Collaborate across teams to align on data interfaces, formats, and flows that enable efficient model training and service integration.
• Define and implement data governance policies, lifecycle management, and cataloging practices.
• Evaluate and integrate modern data technologies (e.g., streaming platforms, data lakes, cloud-native services) aligned with enterprise strategy.

What You Bring

• Master’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience designing scalable data architectures, modern data platforms, and robust ETL pipelines
• Strong expertise in data modeling, architecture patterns, and cloud-native data technologies
• Proficient with tools such as Apache Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, Delta Lake, or cloud equivalents (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Solid knowledge of data security, governance, compliance (e.g., GDPR), and enterprise integration patterns
• Strategic, collaborative approach with the ability to set standards and **design** technical roadmaps (bonus: experience supporting AI/ML, LLMs, or GenAI)

About the Team

Our Corporate and Global Functions are essential in driving the company's strategic initiatives and ensuring operational excellence across various departments, business areas, and regions. These roles support our vision to become the most valued energy technology company in the world. As part of our team, you contribute to our vision by shaping the global energy transition, partnering with our internal and external stakeholders, and conducting business responsibly and in compliance with legal requirements and regulations.

The Scalable Core team drives the foundational technologies and developer platforms that empower scalable and intelligent energy management solutions across Siemens Energy. We build reusable backend services, AI/ML platforms, and lifecycle tools to support cloud, on-prem, and edge deployments. Our mission is to enable teams to deliver intelligent solutions faster and with higher quality – through automation, developer experience, and scalable software foundations. Whether it’s through a streamlined Software Factory Console, advanced model lifecycle capabilities, or self-service deployment engines, we ensure that engineering teams can focus on solving energy challenges – not reinventing the wheel.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global communityismet reliably and sustainably.The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programs and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.