Data Architect

IBM

IBM

IT

Lisbon, Portugal

Posted on May 6, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

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Your role and responsibilities

As a Data Architect within IBM Consulting’s Data & AI practice, you will be aligned to a large statewide insurance client engagement. You’ll serve as the primary technical authority - owning platform architecture, leading a delivery team, and managing client relationships to drive end-to-end delivery success.

Client & Engagement Management

  • Primary technical point of contact for client stakeholders and executives.
  • Lead sprint ceremonies, engagement planning, and executive status reporting.
  • Proactively surface risks, blockers, and scope changes with proposed resolutions.
  • Partner with project managers and practice leadership on delivery health.

Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

  • Own Snowflake platform architecture aligned to enterprise and insurance-domain standards.
  • Design Snowflake objects, roles, and governance at SnowPro Advanced: Architect depth.
  • Architect Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion data models for Snowflake performance and BI consumption.
  • Evaluate and adopt Snowflake Cortex AI, Iceberg tables, and data sharing capabilities.
  • dbt & Transformation Delivery
  • Lead dbt model design, materialization strategy, macros, packages, and testing.
  • Establish GitLab-based CI/CD pipelines for dbt deployment and code governance.
  • Define coding standards, documentation practices, and peer review processes.

AWS Infrastructure & Integration

  • Architect Snowflake–AWS integrations across S3, IAM, VPC, PrivateLink, and Glue.
  • Monitor pipeline SLAs and costs; lead root-cause analysis for data incidents.

Team Leadership & Enablement

  • Manage and mentor data engineers and analytics engineers across the engagement.
  • Drive enablement on Snowflake, dbt, and GitLab best practices.
  • Contribute reusable accelerators and internal knowledge-sharing to the practice.

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Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 8+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise consulting with demonstrated client-facing delivery experience
  • Deep hands-on expertise in Snowflake architecture (warehouses, RBAC, security model, advanced features like Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables)
  • Proven ability to design and implement modern data architecture patterns (Medallion architecture, data sharing, external volumes)
  • Team leadership and cross-functional stakeholder management experience in consulting or professional services environments
  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, and modern orchestration/transformation tools (dbt, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent)
  • Cloud platform expertise (AWS, Azure, GCP) including object storage, networking, IAM, and secrets management in production environments
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Snowflake SnowPro Advanced: Architect certification
  • Deep cloud platform expertise across AWS, Azure, or GCP including object storage, data integration/ETL tooling, identity and access management, virtual networking, and private connectivity patterns in production environments; infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or equivalent)
  • Demonstrated client delivery experience in regulated or mission-critical business environments with strong governance, compliance, and risk management requirements

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ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

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