Design the data foundations that power secure, high‑performance products. As a Data Architect at Quanloop in Limassol, you’ll shape data models, flows and governance so teams can build fast with confidence. If you care about clarity, reliability and cost‑effective scale, this role gives you real ownership and direct impact.

Job Responsibilities

• Own conceptual, logical and physical data models that serve product, analytics and operations
• Design and evolve warehouse, marts and event schemas using proven patterns (3NF, star, Data Vault)
• Define and optimise ELT/ETL pipelines for reliability, testability and cost efficiency
• Guide BigQuery design decisions including partitioning, clustering, query optimisation and storage strategy
• Establish data contracts, lineage and metadata standards with clear documentation
• Set and monitor SLAs for data freshness, quality and availability; drive root‑cause analysis and fixes
• Implement governance for PII and sensitive data including access policies, retention and encryption
• Partner with Product & Engineering to integrate data into services via APIs, CDC and streaming
• Introduce data testing in CI (e.g., schema checks, assertions) and automate validations
• Mentor engineers and analysts; review designs and promote modelling best practices
• Evaluate and standardise tooling for orchestration, transformation, cataloguing and observability

Key Technologies

• SQL and NoSQL data modelling
• BigQuery and GCP data services
• ETL/ELT orchestration and transformation
• Streaming and messaging patterns
• Data governance, lineage and catalogues
• Performance and cost optimisation

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands‑on data modelling and architecture across warehouse and operational use cases
• Expertise in BigQuery at scale including partitioning, clustering and query performance
• Strong command of ELT/ETL design, data quality frameworks and automated testing
• Practical governance experience covering PII handling, access controls and retention in regulated contexts
• Comfortable with event‑driven designs, CDC and API‑centric data contracts
• Excellent communication and documentation skills; able to drive standards across teams
• Ability to work on‑site in Limassol with cross‑functional collaboration

We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and provide reasonable accommodations on request (email [email protected])

Other Skills

• Proficiency with orchestration and transformation tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt or equivalents)
• Familiarity with streaming technologies and schema registry practices
• Experience with BI/semantic layers and stakeholder needs for self‑serve analytics
• Track record of mentoring and elevating engineering quality
• Certifications such as CDMP or Google Professional Data Engineer are a plus