Senior Data Architect

Turkey

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Senior Data Architect responsible for enterprise data architecture, designing conceptual and logical data models that guide Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Merchandising and consumer data transformation at leading jewellery company.

In this strategic data architecture role, you will define enterprise wide data models, create conceptual data architectures, and establish information blueprints that engineering teams implement. You will ensure our data architecture makes information accessible and trustworthy for both analytical insights and AI innovations, enabling Pandora's journey to becoming the world's leading jewellery company.

Leading enterprise information architecture design, creating semantic, conceptual, logical models that engineering teams translate into Azure and databricks based physical implementations.
Architecting data product interfaces and semantic contracts that define how business entities flow through bronze-to-gold transformations, enabling interoperability between domain-owned data products.
Developing semantic layer architectures that provide business-oriented abstractions, hiding technical complexity while enabling self-service analytics.
Creating data architectural blueprints for core application transformation (SAP, Salesforce, o9, workforce management etc.) ensuring a smooth data transitional architecture.
Reviewing and approving physical model proposals from engineering teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise information strategy.
Defining modeling standards for data products: operational schemas in bronze, aggregated and dimensional entities in silver, and consumption-ready models in gold.
Designing information value chains and data product specifications with clear contracts for downstream consumption.
Mapping business capabilities to information domains, creating bounded contexts aligned with Domain-Driven Design principles.
Providing architectural oversight through design reviews, decision records to ensure adherence to the data standards.
Creating business glossaries and semantic models that bridge business language and technical implementation.
Guiding data solution design sessions, translating complex business requirements into clear information structures.
Mentoring teams on data architectural best practices while documenting anti-patterns to avoid common pitfalls.

8+ years as a practicing data architect with proven experience designing enterprise-scale information architectures that successfully went into production.
Demonstrated experience architecting shared data models in modern lakehouse patterns, including defining silver-layer conformance standards and gold-layer consumption contracts.
Demonstrated ability to create semantic layers and logical models that achieved actual business adoption.
Practical experience with multiple modeling paradigms (dimensional, Data Vault, graph, document) knowing when and why to apply each.
Strong understanding of Azure data platform capabilities (Synapse, Databricks, Unity Catalog) to guide architectural decisions in daily implementations.
Track record of guiding teams through major transformations, particularly SAP migrations or platform modernizations.
Excellence in stakeholder communication - explaining data architecture to non-technical audience while providing technical guidance to engineering teams.
Pragmatic approach balancing theoretical best practices with practical implementation realities.
Collaborative leadership style - guiding teams to good decisions rather than mandating solutions.
Experience establishing reusable patterns and reference architectures that accelerate delivery.
Understanding of how logical models translate to physical implementations.
Proven ability to create architectures that survive from MVP to enterprise scale.