Data Architect

About the role

Merkle, a dentsu company, is looking for a Data Architect in Prague. You will provide thought leadership and drive the architecture of Customer Data Platforms, Enterprise Analytics, BI and Data Science solutions, delivering scalable implementations with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data and BI platforms. You will act as the technical single point of contact for all stakeholders, including C-level executives.

Key responsibilities

• Translate business goals and use cases into technical solutions that deliver actionable insights for sales, finance, e-commerce, manufacturing/logistics, banking or CRM.
• Propose conceptual and logical designs for data components and large data integrations, and set architectural direction across a matrix of teams.
• Apply governance methods aligned with enterprise architecture, security and infrastructure standards, and supervise data engineers, data scientists and BI consultants.
• Support pre-sales by proposing technical solutions and effort estimates, and promote a consistent delivery framework.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technology-related field.
• 3+ years designing and building data solutions, including large-scale data lakehouse or DWH solutions on Databricks, Snowflake or Microsoft Fabric, and data pipelines (ETL/ELT, APIs) in cloud tools such as dbt, Keboola or Airflow.
• Experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik), data science and ML solutions, and GenAI foundations (RAG, vector search, semantic layer).
• Knowledge of data mesh, data lake, master data management, data governance, data quality and streaming architectures.
• Good business acumen in domains such as sales, finance, e-commerce, banking or CRM.
• Preferred: proven experience with CDP or data lakehouse implementations in AWS or Azure, and with Salesforce, Adobe or Google marketing and analytics products.

Required skills

• Data modeling (dimensional, Data Vault) and strong SQL.
• Architecture methodologies and tools (Archimate, TOGAF, draw.io, Confluence).
• Full SDLC, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and programming in Python, Java, Scala or C#.
• Technical leadership, mentoring and project management.

What we offer

• Hybrid work with an expectation of one day per week in the office.
• Flexible working hours, 5 weeks of vacation and 3 extra wellness days.
• Dentsu Academy access, corporate mobile subscription, meal vouchers and snacks.
• Referral bonus, dog-friendly office and team events.