Lead Data Architect

Location: European Union; Workplace: Hybrid

Company

hirify.global is an AI transformation and technology consulting partner delivering secure API architectures, cloud-native engineering, and advanced technology solutions across multiple industries.

What you will do

• Lead discovery and data modelling for a new canonical data platform in the media sector.
• Work with business users, domain experts, architects, and engineering teams to define data requirements, concepts, use cases, and measures.
• Inventory, analyse, and profile datasets, feeds, schemas, and poorly documented legacy data structures.
• Define entities, relationships, grain, semantics, source-to-target mappings, lineage, and data quality findings.
• Document schemas, assumptions, data definitions, risks, dependencies, and architectural decisions.
• Act as the technical owner of the canonical model and help data engineering teams turn it into an executable delivery plan.

Requirements

• Strong experience in data architecture and data modelling, including canonical and dimensional modelling across complex business domains.
• Ability to translate business concepts, source structures, and stakeholder requirements into coherent, implementable data models.
• Strong understanding of entities, relationships, grain, semantics, business measures, mappings, lineage, and data quality.
• Strong SQL skills for exploring and profiling data across multiple sources.
• Experience with large-scale analytics or enterprise data platforms and modern lakehouse architectures.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and documentation skills, with a proactive approach to ambiguous data problems.

Nice to have

• Exposure to cloud-based data ecosystems, particularly AWS and/or Snowflake.
• Familiarity with AWS data services such as S3 or Glue.
• Experience with media, audience, advertising technology, content analytics, or similarly complex behavioural data.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-work support with a monthly work-from-home allowance, alongside the role's hybrid workplace arrangement.
• Career development through a 360-degree feedback program.
• Dedicated time for technical training, including online courses, English classes, books, conferences, and events.
• Mentoring opportunities for both mentors and mentees.
• Wellbeing support through mental health, nutrition, physiotherapy, fitness, and specialist webinar sessions.
• Multicultural working environment with technical events, webinars, and online team-building activities.