Title: Principal Data Architect
Type: Full-time
Location: Barcelona or Lausanne
Start date: May 2026
About us
At Visium, we enable enterprise executives in defining their AI & Data strategy, execute large scale transformations and implement AI across operations, ensuring their organization becomes future-proof.
With expertise in strategy, architecture, cloud engineering, analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, we empower our clients to unleash and scale the power of their data.
We’re on a mission to pioneer a bright future and build future-proof and ethical organizations . Join the curious, the ambitious, the doers, the good-hearted, the ones who build a world we’re all in awe of – our Visiumees.
Ready to become one?
Role
As a Principal Data Architect, you will design and shape scalable, secure, and business-driven data platforms on Azure. You act as a technical reference for data architecture decisions across complex environments. You collaborate closely with engineers, stakeholders, and leadership to turn data strategy into reality.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Design end-to-end data architectures (data platforms, pipelines, storage, analytics).
- Define data models, standards, and best practices for scalability and governance.
- Lead architectural decisions and support complex technical trade-offs.
- Work closely with data engineers, data modelers, analytics teams, and business stakeholders.
- Ensure security, performance, and cost-efficiency of data solutions.
- Contribute to data strategy and long-term platform evolution.
Requirements
To succeed in this role, you bring a combination of expertise, experience, and skills including:
- 8+ years of experience in data architecture and/or data engineering roles, with exposure to complex, large-scale data platforms.
- Deep expertise in data architecture and data modeling, including lakehouse and modern analytics architectures.
- Strong experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native data platforms (Azure preferred).
- Proven ability to translate business requirements into robust, end-to-end technical solutions.
- Solid understanding of data warehousing, analytics, and data-driven use cases.
- Excellent communication skills, with experience interacting with senior-level stakeholders and leading technical discussions.
Benefits
What we offer
- A competitive compensation package
- A yearly education budget to steep your learning curve
- A yearly sport budget because a fit body leads to a fit mind
- A flexible working culture because your work-life balance matters to us
- A position that enables you to have an impact on 1’000s of people, and the whole company's growth.
- An international, knowledgeable, and passionate team with a strong collaborative mindset
Check our LinkedIn and website to learn more about us & don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in data architecture and/or data engineering roles, with exposure to complex, large-scale data platforms.
- Deep expertise in data architecture and data modeling, including lakehouse and modern analytics architectures.
- Strong experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native data platforms.
- Experience with Azure.
- Proven ability to translate business requirements into robust, end-to-end technical solutions.
- Solid understanding of data warehousing, analytics, and data-driven use cases.
- Excellent communication skills, with experience interacting with senior-level stakeholders and leading technical discussions.
What We Do
Visium is a leading Swiss AI & Data consultancy helping enterprises unlock the full business value of AI. We combine deep technical expertise with a strong consulting foundation to design and deliver strategic, scalable, and compliant AI solutions. We've delivered over 150 AI solutions for some of the world’s leading enterprise, helping them drive efficiency, unlock new revenue streams, and scale solutions that deliver long-term value. From strategy to deployment, our mission remains the same – to build AI that drives measurable, responsible impact at scale. We believe in using AI as a force for good. Through our Visium4Good initiative, we support NGOs and social impact projects on a pro bono basis, using AI to drive positive change where it’s needed most.
