Data Architect Lisboa

Data Architect
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Data Architect / Data Product Architect

Location: Lisbon, Portugal (Hybrid – 1 day per week onsite)

Start Date: ASAP

Contract Type: Long-term contract / Freelance

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Data Architect / Data Product Architect to join our team in Lisbon, supporting a leading international client. This role will define and drive the data architecture strategy while ensuring projects and programmes deliver scalable,
-
- purpose, and
- ready data solutions.

As a key member of the Architecture function, you will work across Data Management, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, and Data Integration, collaborating with business and IT stakeholders to align data products with business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Data Product Owners to translate business requirements into scalable, efficient data models and architectures.
• Collaborate with business units, data engineers, scientists, and analysts to ensure alignment with operational and strategic goals.
• Define and enforce data architecture frameworks, standards, and principles (modelling, metadata, security, reference data, quality).
• Govern logical and physical data models, ensuring consistency across data products.
• Promote adoption of data mesh and
  - thinking within teams to deliver
  - wide data strategy.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory standards while enabling interoperability and observability of data products.
• Maintain and evolve
  - state architecture documentation, aligning with enterprise strategy.

Key Skills & Experience

• Extensive data modelling expertise (conceptual → physical) with tools such as Erwin, ER Studio.
• Strong knowledge of data & integration architecture: APIs,
  - driven architecture, batch integration, data lakes, data mesh, data warehousing, and data management.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services and platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake.
• Familiarity with data cataloguing and quality tools.
• Solid understanding of both agile and waterfall delivery approaches.
• Knowledge of governance, assurance, design principles, patterns, performance, and security.
• Experience presenting solutions at architecture boards and driving
  - making.
• Strong stakeholder management, able to balance technical excellence with business pragmatism.

We Offer

• Exciting opportunity to work on a strategic data transformation program.
• Hybrid model: 1 day per week in the Lisbon office, with flexibility otherwise.
• Competitive contract rates.
• Collaborative, innovative, and international working environment.

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