Principal Data Architect

Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Department: Engineering

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

Title: Principal Data Architect

Type: Full-time

Location: Barcelona or Lausanne

Start date: May 2026

About us

At Visium, we enable enterprise executives in defining their AI & Data strategy, execute large scale transformations and implement AI across operations, ensuring their organization becomes future-proof.

With expertise in strategy, architecture, cloud engineering, analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, we empower our clients to unleash and scale the power of their data.

We’re on a mission to pioneer a bright future and build future-proof and ethical organizations . Join the curious, the ambitious, the doers, the good-hearted, the ones who build a world we’re all in awe of – our Visiumees.

Ready to become one?

Role

As a Principal Data Architect, you will design and shape scalable, secure, and business-driven data platforms on Azure. You act as a technical reference for data architecture decisions across complex environments. You collaborate closely with engineers, stakeholders, and leadership to turn data strategy into reality.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design end-to-end data architectures (data platforms, pipelines, storage, analytics).
• Define data models, standards, and best practices for scalability and governance.
• Lead architectural decisions and support complex technical trade-offs.
• Work closely with data engineers, data modelers, analytics teams, and business stakeholders.
• Ensure security, performance, and cost-efficiency of data solutions.
• Contribute to data strategy and long-term platform evolution.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you bring a combination of expertise, experience, and skills including:

• 8+ years of experience in data architecture and/or data engineering roles, with exposure to complex, large-scale data platforms.
• Deep expertise in data architecture and data modeling, including lakehouse and modern analytics architectures.
• Strong experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native data platforms (Azure preferred).
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into robust, end-to-end technical solutions.
• Solid understanding of data warehousing, analytics, and data-driven use cases.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience interacting with senior-level stakeholders and leading technical discussions.

Benefits

What we offer

• A competitive compensation package
• A yearly education budget to steep your learning curve
• A yearly sport budget because a fit body leads to a fit mind
• A flexible working culture because your work-life balance matters to us
• A position that enables you to have an impact on 1’000s of people, and the whole company's growth.
• An international, knowledgeable, and passionate team with a strong collaborative mindset

Check our LinkedIn and website to learn more about us & don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.