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We are the European Travel-Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. With technology, we turn spontaneous thoughts into meaningful experiences, helping people travel the world.\n We are looking for a Data Architect to join our team of around 1,700 people worldwide to help us power up the traveller's journey for millions of holidaymakers. If you are a master at infrastructure as code and cloud solution architecture, and passionate about teamwork and knowledge sharing, keep on reading, as you might be the perfect fit for this job.\nThe job in brief:\nJob Title - Data Architect\nWorking model - hybrid from Chiasso\nTeam - you will join the Data Platform & Architecture team within the Data department.\nLevel - Professional\nLocation - Chiasso, Switzerland\nContract - Permanent - full-time (36 h/week)\nWhat your impact will be:\nLead the architecture of our modern data stack on BigQuery and dbt, setting the patterns, standards and trade-offs that new and migrated workloads follow.\n\nDesign and evolve the architecture of our GCP data platform (BigQuery, Cloud Composer/Airflow, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS), including how we build and deploy data services and AI agents, all managed as infrastructure as code with Terraform and GitLab CI.\n\nOwn the data ingestion layer, from batch and CDC replication to event streams, with clear standards for reliability, freshness, cost and schema evolution.\n\nDefine and maintain the cross-cutting foundations of the platform: access management and security, cost efficiency (FinOps), data lineage and observability.\n\nAct as the technical reference for data engineers and analysts: review designs, write architecture decision records, and turn recurring solutions into reusable assets (Terraform modules, templates, documentation, AI context).\n\n Your expertise:\nProven hands-on experience designing and running data platforms on a public cloud, ideally GCP. We care more about what you’ve designed and built than about the number of years.\n\nStrong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform and CI/CD (GitLab CI or similar), plus a solid grasp of cloud IAM, networking and containerised workloads (Kubernetes, Cloud Run).\n\nDeep knowledge of BigQuery or a comparable cloud data warehouse: data modelling, partitioning and clustering, performance and cost optimisation.\n\nHands-on experience with dbt and Airflow/Cloud Composer, and Python for automation and lightweight services.\n\nThe ability to explain architectural trade-offs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike and to drive decisions through to completion, with fluent written and spoken English.\n\nDesirable:\nExperience building and deploying AI agents, and daily use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude), including writing the context (instruction files, skills, glossaries) that makes them reliable.\n\nExperience with data integration and streaming tools in production, such as Airbyte, Debezium/CDC or Kafka.\n\nFamiliarity with data governance practices: data contracts, lineage, semantic or metric layers used by BI tools and AI agents.\n\n Perks of working with us:\nHow we work together:\nAn inclusive, friendly, and international environment (you’ll be working with colleagues from +10 countries and over 48 nationalities)\nShorter working week (36h as full time), with a half working day on Fridays\nFlexible start and end of the working day, with core hours from 10:00 to 4:00 pm\nPossibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year defined according to local regulations\nHow we learn together:\nFri-Yays: half a day on Friday morning with a no-meeting mandate and dedicated to deep work, personal growth, learning and training and/or focus time.\nProfessional and managerial skills development training paths, access to e-learning platforms such as O’reilly, Udemy, Coursera (depending on the department), and to our internal platform offering bespoke training content\nOther perks:\n2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes\nOccasional social events to foster connections among colleagues\nTravel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares\nWe support our employees through life's significant moments with leave options (e.g parental responsibilities, marriages, bereavements, relocations, etc.) in line with local laws.\nWish you were here? We do, too!\nSelection process steps*:\nHR interview (30 minutes)\n\n1st interview (Manager): soft skills\n\n2nd interview (Team): technical knowledge\n\nOffer extended\n(*Please note the process can slightly vary. The recruiter in charge will share more details when setting up the interview)\nOur commitment to celebrate diversity and generate belonging\nAt the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression, and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. 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