Data Architect
Workplace: Skövde, Sweden
Expires: June 11, 2025
The Data Architect is responsible for designing, optimizing, maintaining, and implementing database architectures and the broader data platform to ensure secure, scalable, and cost-effective data storage, access, and processing across on-premises and cloud environments. This role involves hands-on database administration, performance tuning, and developing self-service capabilities for developers, working closely with Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, and Architects.
Main requirements:
- Experience in data platform management and architecture
- Expertise in MySQL Percona and relational databases
- Strong scripting and automation skills
- Ability to work independently and communicate effectively to remove blockers
- Expertise in diagnosing and resolving performance and operational data issues in on-prem and cloud environments
- Proficiency in designing and implementing cost-effective data solutions
- Hands-on experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) tools, ElasticSearch, and event-driven architectures
- Experience in migrating from on-prem database platforms to cloud-based Lakehouse solutions
- Experience implementing data platform security best practices and ensuring compliance with data regulations
Responsibilities:
- Manage organization's data platforms ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, cost-efficiency, and compliance
- Lead transition of data platform management from external vendors to internal teams ensuring smooth handover
- Identify optimization, modernization, and cost reduction opportunities and implement solutions
- Administer MySQL Percona and other platforms including CDC, performance tuning, storage optimization, and high availability
- Design and maintain enterprise data management frameworks for data lifecycle
- Collaborate on best practices for storage, CI/CD, data service architecture, and automation
- Develop self-service tools for developers, improve observability, logging, and monitoring
- Apply and enforce security best practices including access control, encryption, backups, patching, and compliance
- Mentor engineers on data platform architecture and operations
- Evaluate emerging technologies via PoCs and establish KPIs for improvement, reporting to leadership
Required hard skills:
- MySQL Percona administration
- Relational database expertise
- Scripting and automation
- Change Data Capture (CDC) tools
- ElasticSearch
- Event-driven architectures
- Data platform security and compliance
- Cloud-based Lakehouse solutions migration
Recommended hard skills:
- Performance tuning and storage optimization
- CI/CD integration for data services
- Observability and monitoring tools
- Backup and recovery processes
Soft skills:
- Independent work capability
- Effective communication across stakeholders
- Mentorship skills
- Problem solving and diagnosis
- Collaboration with multiple teams
Cultural skills:
- Passion
- Innovation
- Community orientation
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Inclusivity
- Diversity appreciation
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