Data Architect for Data Platform Tribe

The Platform Tribe is undergoing a significant transformation, moving away from a centralized enterprise data warehouse to an approach that supports domain-oriented decentralized data ownership. Domains are empowered to own their data with a product mindset. They focus on delivering clear value and ensuring high quality. These domains publish data products supported by self-serve data infrastructure as a platform, underpinned by federated computational governance. This governance promotes collaboration, establishes shared standards, and enforces automated policies.

As a new Senior Data Architect, you will join the Data Platform Tribe, which is operationally responsible for systems within Data & Analytics. The Tribe consists of 150 team members across Denmark, Lithuania, and India.

The Senior Data Architect role involves designing solutions that meet business and development requirements while aligning with strategic architecture direction and roadmaps. A core aspect of your responsibilities will be shaping and advancing standards and governance policies to guide data ingestion, technical design and development of data products, publishing in the data marketplace, and the implementation of robust data quality frameworks within a data mesh environment. Additionally, the role requires maintaining advanced knowledge across multiple technologies, domains, and disciplines, including event-driven data architectures, data management frameworks such as DMBOK, semantic web concepts, and linked data principles. You will play a key role in facilitating the adoption of industry best practices and driving innovation in these areas.

„We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view. We believe diversity drives innovation.”

You will:

• Act as the assigned architect for one of our highest-prioritised squads
• Align technology and business capabilities while guiding domains in adopting a federated data ownership model as per architectural standards
• Contribute to standards, principles and guardrails for implementing a data mesh architecture
• Articulate problems, principles and propose solutions tailored to an enterprise financial institution
• Maintain a high standard of personal conduct, courtesy, transparency and integrity while acting as a strong team player
• Take responsibility for managing risks associated with tasks in collaboration with colleagues and ensure follow-through
• Work in compliance with regulatory requirements, Group policies and core values

About you:

• Experience working in federated data architectures, such as data mesh, including designing reusable governance and quality services as platform offerings for tenants.
• Ability to define clear onboarding processes, configuration interfaces, ownership boundaries and responsibilities between platform and domain teams.
• Experience designing and improving automated controls for data quality, reconciliation, privacy, access, retention, anonymisation and deletion.
• Experience implementing auditable monitoring, exception reporting, acceptance thresholds and feedback loops across data ingestion, transformation, integration and publishing layers.
• Working experience in the Data & Analytics domain.
• Certifications in CDMP, AWS or Databricks would be beneficial.
• Ability to explain and execute architecture designs for peers.
• Effective stakeholder management, strong interpersonal skills and upper-intermediate English, both spoken and written.

We offer:

Monthly salary range from 4720 EUR to 7080 EUR gross (based on your competencies relevant for the job).

Additionally, each Danske Bank employee receives employee benefits package which includes:

• Growth opportunities: professional & supportive team, e-learnings, numerous development programs; (incl. professional certificates); 100+ professions for internal mobility opportunities.
• Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; additional health insurance; mental well-being practices; partial psychologist counselling compensation; silence and sleep zones at the office; game rooms.
• Hybrid working conditions: Work from home up to two days a week; home office budget (after the probation period); modern Danske Campus workplace developed with anthropologist for the best employee experience.
• Additional days of leave: for rest, health, volunteering, exams in higher education institutions, and other important activities. Moreover, for seniority with Danske Bank.
• Monetary compensation package: accidents & critical diseases insurance; financial support in case of unfortunate events, travel insurance; IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contribution.

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Your title in job contract will be Enterprise Architecture

We are looking for an engaged, communicative, and collaborative architect who thrives in a dynamic, international team setting. If you would like to explore this opportunity and become part of my team, please reach out to me - Arshi Ahmad[email protected] and I will be happy to answer your questions. Please apply as soon as possible, as we conduct interviews on an ongoing basis. We look forward to receiving your application!