
Data Architect
InnoWave
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lisbon • Portugal
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About the role
- Analyse business processes, capabilities, and information needs across domains, validate requirements with stakeholders and translate into functional and technical data specifications;
- Act as a primary interface between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams;
- Define business concepts, metrics, and information domains;
- Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models and data flows ensuring alignment with business processes;
- Design data structures and datasets to support reporting, analytics, and operational use cases;
- Define and maintain business and technical metadata (definitions, lineage, ownership, quality rules);
- Ensure traceability between business requirements, data models, data flows, and delivered solutions;
- Define and enforce data quality rules in collaboration with business and technical teams and analyse data quality issues;
- Maintain version control for requirements, data models, and architectural artefacts;
- Support testing activities, including review of test scenarios, validation of data outcomes, and sign-off;
- Support change impact analysis related to data and process changes;
- Contribute to the definition and continuous improvement of data and information standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field;
- Proven experience as a Data Architect or a similar role in a data environment;
- Experience on data architecture patterns and design options (platform-agnostic);
- Experienced in providing technical guidance and mentorship to team members, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement;
- Experience with modelling and diagramming tools;
- Experience producing and maintaining documentations (business requirements, data models, designs, glossaries, user guides);
- Strong communication and reporting skills;
- Ability to work under pressure, adapt to changing environment, and multi-task;
- Knowledge about the energy sector business is a plus;
- Fluent in English - written and spoken (mandatory).
Benefits
- InnoWave gives equal opportunity in employment regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, race, nationality, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, or any other factor.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data architecturedata modelingdata flowsdata quality rulesdata specificationsdata structuresdata analysistechnical documentationrequirements validationchange impact analysis
Soft Skills
communication skillsmentorshipadaptabilitymulti-taskingstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingteam collaborationcontinuous learningpressure managementreporting skills
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Information Systems