Data Architect (Azure/Databricks)

Location: Naples, Italy; hybrid working model with 2 days per week remotely; right to work in Italy required

Gross annual salary: €50,000–€57,000 gross per year, paid over 14 monthly installments

Company

hirify.global is a hospitality and travel brand operating within the MSC Cruises group.

What you will do

• Define and review end-to-end data architectures across on-premises and cloud environments, including ingestion, integration, storage, processing, modeling, and consumption.
• Produce and assure Solution Design Documents, architecture diagrams, standards, reference architectures, and key architecture decisions.
• Define patterns for Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Lakehouses, including ETL/ELT, batch and incremental processing, CDC, APIs, and streaming.
• Design and review conceptual, logical, and dimensional models, canonical entities, Data Products, data contracts, serving layers, and semantic models.
• Embed data quality, metadata, lineage, security, governance, performance, scalability, reliability, recoverability, and observability requirements.
• Assess existing platforms and integrations, identify modernization and migration opportunities, and provide architecture assurance for delivery teams and partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, or a comparable discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Data Platform Architecture, Data Engineering, or comparable roles.
• Experience with enterprise on-premises Data Warehouses and modern cloud data platforms, including modernization, coexistence, and migration scenarios.
• Strong knowledge of Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and Lakehouse architectures; data integration; ETL/ELT; CDC; batch; and incremental processing.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure data services and architecture patterns, Databricks Lakehouse, and Delta-based architectures.
• Strong data-modeling skills covering conceptual, logical, and dimensional models, canonical structures, source-to-target mapping, and data historization.
• Experience with Data Products, data contracts, curated serving layers, Power BI semantic models, data quality, metadata, lineage, governance, and an enterprise Data Governance or Data Catalog tool.
• Understanding of AI-ready data architecture and the quality, metadata, semantic, governance, and access foundations required for AI and advanced analytics.
• Strong SQL skills; experience defining security and non-functional requirements; familiarity with DevOps and DataOps, version control, CI/CD, and environment management.
• Experience producing and reviewing SDDs, architecture diagrams, technical standards, and architecture decisions, with strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills. Fluent written and spoken English required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric and its core data-platform capabilities.
• Experience applying Data Mesh principles and designing domain-oriented Data Products.
• Experience with streaming and event-driven data architectures.
• Relevant architecture, cloud, or data certifications such as TOGAF, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, or CDMP.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent contract under the applicable Italian collective labour agreement for shore-based personnel.
• Hybrid work with 2 remote days per week and flexible working hours.
• €8 meal vouchers for each on-site working day.
• Welfare initiatives, health insurance, productivity award, learning opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme, and MSC group discounts and partnerships.
• Inclusive environment focused on wellbeing, continuous learning, career growth, feedback, and community.