Data Platform Architect
Pubblicato il 16-09-2026 - Volkswagen Group in Sant'Agata bolognese
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Description
We are looking for a Data Platform Architect to join our headquarters at Sant’Agata Bolognese (BO), reporting directly to the Head of IT and functionally to the Coordination of Architecture, Data & Services. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the company data infrastructure to support strategic business objectives. The Data Architect translates business requirements into robust technical data solutions, ensuring data is structured, integrated, secure, and accessible to authorized users. You will be responsible to provide leadership in data architecture design, platform management, data governance, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Your Main Activities Will Be
- Design and evolve the data architecture aligned to IT strategy
- Designs conceptual, logical, and physical data models consistent with business and analytics requirements
- Creates blueprints and roadmaps for the evolution of data lakes, data warehouses, data marts, and data platforms
- Develops long-term data architecture strategy aligned with business objectives and enterprise strategic direction
- Defines standards, principles, and frameworks for enterprise data architecture
- Maintains and updates data architecture documentation and artifacts
- Translates business & analytics needs into data solutions
- Analyzes internal/external data sources and existing systems, identifying gaps and improvement opportunities
- Defines data storage, organization, accessibility, and performance requirements
- Promotes scalable data sharing models through reusable data products, federated governance and domain-based ownership.
- Architects data platforms, pipelines & integrations
- Defines the architecture of data pipelines and end-to-end orchestration strategies
- Designs integration patterns (batch/real-time), APIs