Data Architect at Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB)

Grade B5-B6

Location: Paris, France

Salary: €69,441 to €80,705 tax-free + Benefits

Contract: Four year fixed-term contract with possibility of renewal

Closing date: 16 March 2025

Shape the Future of Data and Drive Change Across Europe

Are you highly experienced as a data architect, including implementing functional and technical architectures within a financial environment? Do you have expertise in data modelling techniques, embracing conceptual, logical and physical modelling? Then you can drive transformation and implement a far-reaching data governance framework for a pan-European bank with a unique social mandate.

To join us, you should bring:

• A postgraduate degree or equivalent qualification in computer science, with a data specialisation.
• An excellent command of relational database design, normalisation and denormalisation using SQL.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks, ideally backed by TOGAF certification.
• Experience of producing architectural diagrams and maintaining reference cartography.
• Proven ability to translate cybersecurity and regulatory compliance requirements into architectural designs.
• In-depth knowledge of patterns and experience of integration architectures (real-time or near-real time, APL and file-based).
• Exposure to NoSQL databases and modelling for unstructured data.
• Awareness of the main types of operational and analytical data architectures (MDM (Master Data Management), data warehouse, data mart, data lake and lakehouse).
• Full fluency in either English or French, with the commitment to reach a good working level in the other language.

In addition, the following would be very useful:

• Sound knowledge of data engineering practices (ETL, ELT) and technologies such as Python, Spark and SQL.
• Certification in or experience of Azure cloud.
• Familiarity with Microsoft data technologies (Fabric, Power BI, Pureview).

In this role, you will help analyse and compare technologies, propose  practical  solutions to meet data users’ evolving requirements and produce estimates to support your recommendations. In particular, you will assess gaps and suggest enhancements to existing semantic data models on a conceptual, logical and physical level, whilst contributing to design documents and technical specifications

If you're detail-oriented and enjoy problem-solving in a collaborative environment, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Salary: €69,441 to €80,705 tax-free + Benefits

 Are you ready to play a key role in shaping data architecture? Supporting business analysts in qualifying requirements to support enhancements, and implementing project scoping activities, you’ll help build robust and effective data solutions.

Applications should be made in English or French using the Council of Europe Development Bank online application system at https://ceb.profils.org before the deadline of 16 March 2025, midnight Paris time. Please mention the job board when applying.