Data Architect

Confidential employer
Full-time•Data engineering•Ireland · Remote within Ireland
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Role

As a Principal Data Architect, you will:

  • Design end-to-end data architectures for client initiatives, along with the diagrams, documentation, and decision records that go with them.

  • Build the systems you design, taking them from initial sketches through to production.

  • Work closely with client teams to understand their data landscape, constraints, and business goals, and shape practical solutions for them.

  • Work alongside software, AI, and front-end engineers to integrate data platforms into broader applications and workflows.

  • Present your work in weekly demos and updates, representing both yourself and Manakau in front of client stakeholders.

  • Bring good data engineering practice into client teams: modelling, pipelines, observability, and reliability.

  • Stay involved after the initial architecture is in place, evolving the platform as the engagement continues.

What we're looking for

Specifically, you’ll bring:

  • A Computer Science degree

  • 8+ years of professional experience across data architecture and data engineering, with a track record of leading architecture decisions on large, complex systems

  • Strong working knowledge of the modern cloud-based data-pipeline landscape, particularly Snowflake, AWS, and S3. AWS-stack data-warehouse and big-data-analytics experience is the natural starting point for us. Experience with more traditional self-managed and hybrid data platforms (such as the Cloudera ecosystem) is a plus.

  • Experience designing data architectures for real, complex systems, and producing clear documentation to go with them.

  • Able to engage with a new client, survey their data estate (structured databases plus the unstructured stuff: emails, documents, tribal knowledge), interview the right people, understand what the business is actually trying to do, and come back with a future-state architecture and a roadmap to get there.

  • Strong, current hands-on engineering skills. You can build what you design, and keep adding value throughout the engagement.

  • Able to lead an implementation end-to-end, with a more junior engineer alongside you as a sidekick. You set direction, make the architectural calls, and drive delivery.

  • Comfortable working across the full data lifecycle: modelling, pipelines, storage, integration, and the operational side.

  • Confident communication skills, with the presence to represent your work in front of clients and in weekly demos.

  • A consulting mindset. You can land in a new environment, get your bearings quickly, and start delivering.

This role is full remote within Ireland - you need to be physically in Ireland with full working permissions.

Salary: €120K - €145K

If this interests, ping me on rose@ninedots.io

Apply NowApply before: July 16, 2026