Principal Data Architect

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future – to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow’s markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

• Being a trusted advisor, guiding our clients towards a successful solution to their data challenges.
• Taking part in early engagement to help create a compelling vision of an Agile, data-driven organisation.   
• Guiding and de-risking the delivery of data projects, promoting working iteratively to incrementally add value. Mediating, resolving conflicts and escalating when necessary.  
• Supporting cross-functional data teams delivering data platforms, products and services in the cloud and in clients’ data centres.  
• Helping stakeholders define both functional and non-functional requirements and ensuring solutions meet these requirements for performance, scalability, availability, security, and manageability. and sustainability
• Aligning work across the client’s organisation and their data strategy, taking a key role in choosing appropriate technologies, preparing performance and cost estimates for various use cases.   
• Providing expertise on data privacy and information security topics whilst keeping up to date with relevant legislation e.g., GDPR, ensuring our clients’ regulatory compliance.   
• Building capability in the architecture community and collaborating with other data roles such as other Architects, Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Data Scientists (i.e. providing guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing opportunities through forums and talks)
• Keeping yourself technically sharp, being open to learning new and emerging technologies, approaches and paradigms
• Mastering the big data world and help our customers to make their own data fit for business or operational purpose, whether in the Cloud or in their own data center.
• Leading data and devops engineers within your teams
• Working collaboratively with colleagues and clients, be it onsite, in the Zuhlke office, or from home.  
• Designing data pipelines.
• Travelling to various Zuhlke locations, e.g. in mainland Europe, for project work or for developing competencies across the Zuhlke group.

If you feel you don't meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!  

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.