Principal Data Architect

Visium SA
Barcelona, Spain
5 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Barcelona, Spain

Tech stack

Data analysis
Azure
Data Architecture
Information Engineering
Data Systems
Data Warehousing
Data Strategy
Data Management

Job description

As a Principal Data Architect, you will design and shape scalable, secure, and business-driven data platforms on Azure. You act as a technical reference for data architecture decisions across complex environments. You collaborate closely with engineers, stakeholders, and leadership to turn data strategy into reality.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Design end-to-end data architectures (data platforms, pipelines, storage, analytics).
  • Define data models, standards, and best practices for scalability and governance.
  • Lead architectural decisions and support complex technical trade-offs.
  • Work closely with data engineers, data modelers, analytics teams, and business stakeholders.
  • Ensure security, performance, and cost-efficiency of data solutions.
  • Contribute to data strategy and long-term platform evolution.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Scalability?, To succeed in this role, you bring a combination of expertise, experience, and skills including:

  • 8+ years of experience in data architecture and/or data engineering roles, with exposure to complex, large-scale data platforms.
  • Deep expertise in data architecture and data modeling, including lakehouse and modern analytics architectures.
  • Strong experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native data platforms (Azure preferred).
  • Proven ability to translate business requirements into robust, end-to-end technical solutions.
  • Solid understanding of data warehousing, analytics, and data-driven use cases.
  • Excellent communication skills, with experience interacting with senior-level stakeholders and leading technical discussions.

Benefits & conditions

What we offer

  • A competitive compensation package
  • A yearly education budget to steep your learning curve
  • A yearly sport budget because a fit body leads to a fit mind
  • A flexible working culture because your work-life balance matters to us
  • A position that enables you to have an impact on 1'000s of people, and the whole company's growth.
  • An international, knowledgeable, and passionate team with a strong collaborative mindset

About the company

At Visium, we enable enterprise executives in defining their AI & Data strategy, execute large scale transformations and implement AI across operations, ensuring their organization becomes future-proof. With expertise in strategy, architecture, cloud engineering, analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, we empower our clients to unleash and scale the power of their data. We're on a mission to pioneer a bright future and build future-proof and ethical organizations . Join the curious, the ambitious, the doers, the good-hearted, the ones who build a world we're all in awe of - our Visiumees.

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