Senior Data Architect (m/f/d) — ETH Zürich
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 3 days ago
Role overview
Senior Data Architect (m/f/d)
80%-100%, Zurich, permanent Printed Printing
Shape the data-driven and AI-enabled future of a world-leading university
- Senior Data Architect (m/f/d)
- 80%-100%, Zurich, permanent Printed Printing
Application process
- The portfolio also includes the conception, implementation and further development of various systems (central operational information system, identity & access management, SAP ERP, web content management as well as solutions for teaching development/technology and departments) at ETH Zurich.
- ETH Zurich is consistently driving the digital transformation of its data landscape: away from historically grown, punctual integrations – towards a modern, event-driven and governance-strong data platform that also enables the responsible use of artificial intelligence.
- As a Senior Data Architect, you take on a central, shaping role in this strategic realignment – conceptually as well as hands-on. Job description
- As a Senior Data Architect, you play a key role in the design and development of our company-wide data landscape.
- With your strong architectural expertise, you are responsible for the conceptual, logical and physical information and data architecture and use canonical data models to create the basis for consistent and sustainable data use across all relevant domains.
- They actively drive the strategic transformation of our integration architecture and develop it from classic point-to-point interfaces to a modern, event-driven and decentralized data platform according to the principles of event-driven architecture and data mesh.
- At the same time, you create the architectural conditions for the responsible use of business intelligence, analytics and artificial intelligence and enable the development of innovative data products up to machine learning applications.
- As an experienced architect, you will design modern persistence and data platform strategies, develop solutions for relational, document-based, graph and vector databases and accompany the development of powerful data lake and lakehouse architectures.
Contacts
- The services of the section ID Applications (APPS) include e-mail, groupware (collaborative software solutions) and the hosting of websites, databases and applications.
Company and context
- Thanks to your experience, you will establish sustainable data governance structures and ensure that processes relating to metadata management, data quality, data classification and role and approval concepts are effectively anchored in the organization.
- With your foresight, you shape the data-driven further development of our organization sustainably and make a decisive contribution to the digital future. Profile
- Completed university degree in computer science, business informatics or comparable qualification as well as multi-year degree
Additional details
- 80%-100%, Zurich, permanent
- As a Senior Data Architect, you take on a central, shaping role in this strategic realignment – conceptually as well as hands-on.
- With your foresight, you shape the data-driven further development of our organization sustainably and make a decisive contribution to the digital future.
Notes and original content
- Job description
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