Data Architect

Company Description

Sopra Steria is one of the largest players in the tech industry in Europe, known for its consulting, digital services and software development. We operate in nearly 30 countries in the world, hiring more than 55,000 employees.

The Polish branch, as the Global Delivery Center, operates in Katowice since 2007 and has been growing ever since. Currently, our team consists of around 1,000 specialists.

Within the Digital Platform Services department, our teams specialize in areas such as cloud, operating systems, virtualization, databases, backup or storage, as well as networking and security. We also have 1st line support consultants who speak French and English, but also Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

The Application Services department is responsible for areas such as software development, data engineering, testing services, CRM, ITSM and ERP platform integrations, as well as application management for customers in Scandinavia, Benelux, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK.

Job Description

We are looking for Data Architect to join Sopra Steria Polska for a team that works for a client in the aerospace sector. You will work in an industrial, stable environment in multinational team (France, Poland, India) for a major aeronautical manufacturer. The program involves wide portfolio of applications developed by multiple teams in modern technologies, that e.g., support pilots, crew, and airline in planning the flights or various airport operations.

Note that we can only offer cooperation to people who are located in Poland and have EU citizenship.

Responsibilities:​

• Data Solution Architecture: Responsible for designing data architecture. Explain, define and suggest options.

• Data Strategy: Translate strategic vision into technology decisions and define migration paths.

• Data Modeling: Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models ensuring performance and scalability.

• Involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the alignment of architecture solutions with business goals and requirements.

• Provides retex and data guidelines, leadership and guidance throughout the previous projects.

• Commits to producing relevant solutions, checks deliverables, makes decisions, optimizes delivery under their responsibility.

• Schedule and animate workshops with main stakeholder.

• Define solution, support and follow client to implement data architecture. Present differences between solutions.

• Identifies risks for their scope, defines related action plans, and manages difficult situations.

• Ensures viability, operability, scalability, security, economic feasibility and the matching of solutions with needs

Tech stack on the project:​

• Data Lake, DataHub, BI environments

Qualifications

Must have requirements:​

• At least 8-12 years of experience in relevant field.

• Solution Architect experience with strong knowledge of Data technologies (open source building blocks, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.).

• Proven experience in data projects.

• Strong knowledge of architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices

• Strong leadership and communication abilities, with the capacity to explain architectural concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.

• Good knowledge of performance optimisation and security management techniques.

• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.

• Good command of agility principles.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• EU citizenship.

• Fluent English: B2/C1.

• Being open to occasional business trips abroad and visits in our office in Katowice.

Nice to have requirements:

• French language skills (any level)

Additional Information

What we offer:

• BENEFITS (UoP): Luxmed, Medicover Sport, Worksmile, educational platforms, languages learning platform, referral bonus, copyrights, life insurance, workation

• DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES (UoP and B2B): certifications (paid by the company), conferences, Tech Lunches, possibility to join our Communities (Project Management, Architecture, Security, Process Management, Leadership, AI and Cloud)

The recruitment process for this position consists of three stages:

• a short phone call with a recruiter (30 min max)

• one-hour long interview on Teams (with both general and technical questions)

• one-hour long interview on Teams (with project representative)

Salary range:

UOP: 18 000 -22 000 PLN gross/month.

B2B: 135-180/190 PLN/h net

All information about salary range and its additional components will be provided during the 1st stage of recruitment process.

At our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.