Data Architect (f/m/d)

About the company

Innovations bring profound changes and influence our lives in many ways. At the TÜV SÜD Group, we are highly committed to being an important part of this development and progress. We are involved from the very beginning and accompany this process. We ensure a safe and sustainable future and create trust in new technologies. We advise, we test, we certify. For the safety of people and society, we challenge ourselves anew every day. We act out of conviction, shaping the world of tomorrow today – setting benchmarks. We take the future into our hands. We are the TÜV SÜD Group. Since 1866, the TÜV SÜD Group has stood for safety, quality, and sustainability and is today an international service group with 30,000 employees worldwide. Independently and objectively, the TÜV SÜD Group ensures trust among consumers and companies.

At the TÜV SÜD Group, people from more than 100 nations work together. People with different backgrounds, skills, and goals. Our strength lies in these numerous and diverse perspectives.

Your tasks

Join us as a Data Architect (f/m/d) and shape the data foundation of TÜV SÜD. You will design, build and manage our data landscape, ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency while enabling data-driven business decisions.

• Advise business stakeholders on data-driven opportunities and solutions that support informed decision-making, digitalization, and business growth
• Design end-to-end data solutions for business use cases, from data ingestion and transformation to reusable data products
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to translate requirements into scalable, secure, and sustainable data architecture
• Optimize and evolve existing data solutions to improve efficiency, scalability, and business value
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, data governance standards, and data mesh principles
• Promote reuse by designing shared data products, common data models, and standardized integration patterns
• Work closely with data engineers, data owners, and data stewards to ensure data quality, compliance, and discoverability through effective metadata management and documentation

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Analytics, or a similar role
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related discipline
• Strong ability to understand business challenges and translate them into scalable data solutions that enable data-driven decision-making
• Experience in designing end-to-end data architectures, from data ingestion and transformation to data products and consumption
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, or GCP
• Solid knowledge of data modeling, database design, data governance, metadata management, and data product concepts
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one modern data processing language or framework (e.g., Python, Java, Scala, Spark)
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across business and technical teams
• Fluent in English; German language skills at B2 level or higher are an advantage

What we offer

We offer an environment where

• You take full accountability for your ideas and bring them to reality
• You can act as an intrapreneur in a well established company
• Diversity is at the core of our way of working

Other

We are committed to being an inclusive and diverse employer by welcoming all people. Diversity and inclusion are the foundation of our company, and we promote an environment in which all our employees can trust that they will be treated with respect - regardless of age, nationality, ethnic background, disability, gender and gender identity or sexual orientation, religion or belief. We expect our employees to behave at all times in accordance with the TÜV SÜD Group Code of Ethics and corporate values.

We are firmly convinced that the continuous anchoring of these values will continue to contribute significantly to the success of the TÜV SÜD Group. Click here to learn more about Diversity at the TÜV SÜD Group.