Decskill, founded in 2014 as an IT Consulting Company, places paramount importance on its greatest asset: its people. Our main mission is to deliver value through knowledge and talent, and we achieve this by fostering a culture of excellence and investing in the development and well-being of our people. With over 600 dedicated professionals and offices in Lisbon, Porto, Madrid, and Luxembourg, Decskill operates across three core areas:Decskill Talent:We believe that our people are key to our success. Through Decskill Talent, we empower our team to embrace the digital transformation challenges of our clients. We collaborate with clients to drive innovation, ensuring project success and business growth.Decskill Boost:Equipping our team with the latest tools and methodologies, we optimize Time-to-Market and deliver innovative solutions exceeding client expectations.Decskill Connect:Our team collaborates closely with clients to implement and manage IT infrastructures that generate long-term value.At Decskill, we believe that by nurturing and empowering our people to confront the challenges of digital transformation, we create value not only for our clients but also for our entire ecosystem, fostering a digital community dedicated to growth and progress.We are looking for a Senior Data Architect / Data Product Architect for aremoteposition in Portugal.Key responsibilities:Work closely withData Product Ownersand business stakeholders to translate requirements intoscalable, efficient data models and architecturesthat support product strategy and outcomes. Collaborate withdata engineers, data scientists, analysts and domain SMEsto design end‐to‐end data solutions, from ingestion to consumption. Define and promote theenterprise data architecture framework, standards and principles (modelling, metadata, security, reference data, data quality), following industry best practices. Maintain and governlogical and physical data models, ensuring consistency and alignment across different data domains and products. Drive adoption ofdata meshanddata product thinkingacross data teams and domain owners. Promotedata governance best practices, ensuring compliance with data privacy, security and regulatory requirements. Ensurediscoverability, interoperability, observability, data lineage and monitoringof all data products. Align all architecture efforts with theoverall enterprise data strategy, maintaining and enhancing current‐state architecture documentation. Take ownership of solutions and present them atarchitecture boards, providing clear rationale and guidance.Required profile:Proven experience as aData Architect / Data Product Architectin complex enterprise environments. Strong background indata modelling(conceptual, logical and physical) and experience with data modelling tools (e.g. Erwin, ER/Studio or similar). Expertise indata and integration architecture: APIs, event‐driven architectures, batch data integration, data lakes, data warehousing, data management. Familiarity withcloud platforms (ideally AWS)and modern data platforms such asDatabricks, Snowflakeor similar. Experience withData Catalog, Data Quality and Data Lineagetools and practices. Experience working with different delivery approaches ( agile, waterfall, product‐oriented). Solid understanding ofgood systems design practices, including performance, security and enterprise governance. Ability totake ownership of architectural solutionsand communicate them effectively to technical and business stakeholders. Business‐oriented, pragmatic, collaborative and positivemindset, comfortable working in international, cross‐functional environments. Available to work on afreelance/B2B basis. If this sounds like a good fit and you are available to staIf you're interested in this job please send your CV in English towith reference "DA/Data"Decskill is committed to equality and non-discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent, based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.