Data Architect (gn) fulltime/parttime (hybrid)

Do you want to play an active role in driving a company’s growth and turning big plans into reality? Then join our team! You can look forward to exciting challenges, an inspiring environment, and a work culture that combines flexibility and collaboration – with our 60/40 hybrid model and modern offices in Ratingen as a hub for ideas. As part of our team, you will take on the following responsibilities:

• You act as the central bridge between complex source systems and a robust, unified enterprise data model. You are responsible for the conceptual, logical, and structural integrity of our Core Data Model as well as the Gold Layer across Azure, Snowflake, and dbt.
• You ensure that fragmented data sources are transformed into consistent, reusable, and decision‑relevant data products, actively preventing the platform from drifting into team‑specific, incompatible models.
• You define and maintain central business objects, canonical dimensions, shared metrics, and facts, ensuring that the Core Data Model serves as a stable, business‑oriented foundation across all domains.
• You develop modeling standards, naming conventions, layering concepts (Staging → Intermediate → Gold), reuse patterns, and dbt design guidelines, and you ensure their consistent implementation across all teams.
• You safeguard the semantic consistency of the entire data model, resolve domain conflicts, ensure that identical business terms are modeled only once, and review changes affecting core layers.
• You act as the technical design authority for model changes in Snowflake/dbt, balancing local requirements with long‑term model coherence, and ensuring that all models remain performant, scalable, maintainable, and of high quality.