Cloud Data Architect — Lead Migrations & Platform Design

Playground Tech; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Playground Data is hiring a Data Architect to own architecture decisions and work closely with clients, from design to running solutions.

You’ll design target architectures for modern cloud data platforms, lead migrations to the cloud, and define scalable data models while ensuring governance and security across platforms. This role suits someone who thrives in a consultancy setting and values practical, long-lasting design decisions.

Qualifications

• Designed and built data platforms for analytics, AI and ML.
• Led migrations from on-prem to cloud environments.
• Established data governance practices across platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design target architectures for modern cloud data platforms and own the path from current state to target state.
• Lead migrations from on-prem environments to the cloud, from assessment and platform choices through to a running solution.
• Define data models, integration patterns and platform structures that scale with the business and stay maintainable.
• Establish data governance in practice: ownership, access, security, data quality and lifecycle, so platforms stay trustworthy as they grow.
• Guide clients through difficult technology decisions and translate business needs into architecture people can act on.
• Contribute internally by shaping our technical approaches and reference architectures, being part of presales, and shaping the technical narrative and scoping behind client proposals.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Data migrations

Data governance

Client engagement

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Playground Data is hiring a Data Architect to own architecture decisions and work closely with clients, from design to running solutions.

You’ll design target architectures for modern cloud data platforms, lead migrations to the cloud, and define scalable data models while ensuring governance and security across platforms. This role suits someone who thrives in a consultancy setting and values practical, long-lasting design decisions.