Principal Data Architect

Xebia is a global AI-first, digital transformation, and engineering partner with over 25 years of experience and a team of 5,000 professionals across 16 countries. In the CEE region, the team consists of nearly 1,000 experts delivering modern applications, data platforms, and AI solutions for various clients. The company specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Data and Cloud, Intelligent Automation, and Digital Products, using technologies including AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, and Snowflake.

• Solid, current hands-on experience as a Data Architect or Solution Architect with recent delivery and engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and modern data platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake.
• Practical experience with lakehouse architecture (Delta Lake or Iceberg, medallion layering) covering batch and streaming workloads, including real-time architectures.
• Hands-on experience with data platform migration, modernization, and designing integrations between business systems and data platforms.
• Practical grasp of agentic data engineering, including building and maintaining data pipelines with AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex.
• Practical understanding of AI/ML and GenAI concepts and their integration into modern data platform architectures (LLM-based solutions, RAG, MLOps, AI-ready data pipelines).
• Experience producing architecture proposals, solution concepts, high-level design artifacts, and assessing technical risks and delivery assumptions.
• Strong communication and presentation skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have:

• Technical leadership experience, including leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience with governance, security, and data quality.
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale data services across the broader Azure, AWS, or GCP data ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience building AI-powered solutions, such as GenAI applications, recommendation systems, and intelligent automation.
• Experience supporting RFP, bid, or proposal work.
• Cloud or data platform certifications (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake).

• Work directly with new clients from discovery through solution shaping, running workshops, exploring requirements, and presenting proposed solutions, technologies, and architecture.
• Support the presales team with architect-level input for proposals.
• Translate business and technical expectations into high-level architecture proposals, including risks, dependencies, and constraints.
• Shape offerings by turning repeated solutions into reusable patterns and accelerators.
• Build prototypes while designing the final product.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact on the hardest problems for the project team.

Work from the European Union region and a work permit are required.