Spanish-Speaking Data Architect

About the role

n-iX's Data & Analytics practice builds modern data platforms on Snowflake, Databricks, Azure and AWS for clients worldwide. It is looking for a Spanish-speaking Data Architect to design cloud data platforms for clients, owning the target architecture end-to-end, working directly with client stakeholders in Spanish and guiding engineering teams through delivery. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with consulting: shaping solutions in pre-sales, running discovery workshops and staying accountable for architecture quality once the project is live.

Key responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data architectures on Snowflake and/or Databricks, deployed on Azure and/or AWS, covering ingestion, storage, processing, serving and consumption layers.
• Define lakehouse and data warehouse patterns (medallion architecture, data vault, dimensional models) and choose the right one for each use case.
• Lead migrations from legacy platforms (on-prem DWH, Hadoop, Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server) to the cloud, including assessment, roadmap and cutover plan.
• Set standards for data modelling, pipeline design, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and environment strategy.
• Design data governance, security and compliance: access control, data lineage, cataloguing (Unity Catalog, Snowflake Horizon, Purview), GDPR and local LATAM privacy laws.
• Optimise platform cost and performance (warehouse sizing, cluster policies, FinOps practices).
• Run discovery workshops and architecture reviews with client business and technical stakeholders, in Spanish and English.
• Support pre-sales: solution design, effort estimates, technical sections of proposals and client presentations.
• Mentor data engineers, review their designs and code, and act as the technical escalation point on the project.
• Prepare data foundations for BI, advanced analytics, ML and GenAI use cases.

Required profile

• 8+ years in data engineering or data platforms, including 3+ years as a Data or Solution Architect.
• Hands-on production experience with Snowflake and/or Databricks (at least one in depth).
• Proven experience with data modelling (dimensional, data vault) and lakehouse design.
• Experience with orchestration and transformation tools such as Airflow, dbt, Azure Data Factory or Databricks Workflows.
• Track record of leading at least one cloud data platform build or migration from design to production.
• Client-facing consulting experience: running workshops, presenting architecture decisions, managing expectations.
• Fluent or native Spanish and at least B2 English, written and spoken.
• Based in an EU or LATAM country with the right to work there.

Required skills

• Azure: ADLS Gen2, Data Factory, Synapse/Fabric, Event Hubs, Purview, Key Vault
• AWS: S3, Glue, Redshift, Kinesis, Lambda, Lake Formation, IAM
• Expert SQL and solid Python or Scala; experience with Spark
• Nice to have: Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation, Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, Delta Live Tables, MLOps and GenAI data foundations, domain experience in banking, insurance, retail, telecom or energy, Portuguese for Brazil-based clients

What we offer

• Flexible working format: remote, office-based or flexible.
• Competitive salary and good compensation package.
• Personalised career growth and professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence).
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing.
• Education reimbursement, anniversary presents and corporate events and team building.