Data Architect

Are you passionate about shaping the future of data architecture in a dynamic, global environment? Chubb European Group is seeking an experienced Data Solutions Architect to join our growing capability. In this influential role, you will drive the vision for data use across the organization, aligning data structure, integration, and solution design with business goals, compliance needs, and industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and design robust solution and data architectures for our data assets, ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements, and leveraging architecture design and reference architecture standards.

Deploy Agile engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle, collaborating closely with engineers, project managers, and stakeholders to socialize and communicate solution designs.

Make strategic technology, framework, and pattern choices—including cloud-native solution design (Azure, Databricks, Snowflake), microservices, and event-driven architectures—to deliver scalable, efficient, and secure data assets.

Lead the design and implementation of APIs (e.g., Azure APIM), integration components, and back-end services, ensuring seamless system and technology integration across disparate platforms and devices.

Support delivery teams in building high-quality, supportable, and maintainable data assets, applying application development/programming skills and quality control rigor.

Specify and uphold data management standards to ensure data privacy, security, compliance (GDPR, Data Protection Acts), integrity, and quality across the data estate.

Develop innovative solutions for data storage, management, and processing, including database schema creation and management for both relational and non-relational systems.

Optimize application performance and troubleshoot issues by analyzing and resolving bottlenecks, ensuring efficient data flows and high system responsiveness.

Provide cost projections for developing and operating data platforms, always considering business value and deliverability.

Contribute to Chubb’s Data Strategy, ensuring our solutions are future-proof and aligned with evolving technology requirements.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Extensive experience with data lakes, data warehouses, reporting solutions, and architectural patterns in large, regulated organizations.

Proven expertise in cloud computing (Azure VM, Cloud Services), Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, SQL, Python, and building solutions on these platforms.

Strong background in API design and implementation, microservices, event-driven architecture (Kafka, Azure Service Bus), and integration component design.

Demonstrated ability in application development, performance tuning, and application security (OWASP, SANS CWE).

Experience in data modeling, schema management, data cataloging, and performance tuning for diverse data consumption needs.

Excellent leadership, people management, and communication skills, with a collaborative approach to working with senior engineers and architecture peers.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting abilities, with a focus on technology requirement analysis and delivering business value.

Commitment to quality control, data privacy, security, and compliance in all aspects of solution design and delivery.

What we offer in return:

32 days of vacation a year

2 days working from home option + additional flexible days

Working from home allowance

Entry time flexibility

Private medical insurance

Life and accident insurance

Meal allowance

Pension plan

Stock purchase plan

Flexible compensation scheme

Wellhub

Employee assistance program

Comprehensive Learning & Development offer

Integrity. Client Focus. Respect. Excellence. Teamwork
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Diversity & Inclusion
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We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Statement

It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity in all of our employment practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, individuals with disabilities, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category.

Applicants for positions with Chubb Spain must be legally authorized to work in Spain.