We’re passionate about using technology to drive sustainability. You too? Join us as a Data Architect for Technology Architecture at Ramboll Tech and help us become the leading Tech-Enabled Partner for Sustainable Change.
We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Data Architect to partner with our Architecture, Engineering and Consulting Global Business Areas, who thrives in aligning technology roadmap and strategies with business goals, to drive growth and operational excellence. If you are passionate about collaborating with business leaders to shape strategies and have a data-centric mindset, we want to hear from you.
Join Ramboll Tech to support the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities and make your mark in Ramboll Global Business Areas. You will be a part of our exciting digital transformation journey and play an active role in taking our consultancy business to the next level to deliver ambitious optimisations and revenue growth targets!
What you will do
You will join Technology Architecture in Ramboll Tech. You will be working closely with the Enterprise architects, Product architects, AI & Digital products chapter. You will partner with Data product and platform owners and Innovation and Digital Transformation Directors—who drive digitalisation, innovation, and scaling of digital solutions & products across their respective business domains.
As our Data Architect, you will play a key role in transforming data into a strategic asset, by ensuring it is well-structured, governed and leveraged effectively for business growth. Your focus will be on delivering value by shaping data architecture, roadmaps, and solutions that directly address the challenges and opportunities of our business areas.
This role requires expertise in modern data management and analysis technologies, alongside a deep understanding of corporate data management best practices. As we operate in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC), you can expect a considerable focus on building Engineering data warehouses (EDWH). We are looking for a candidate eager to engage in applying data-centric principles to EDWH to leverage generating valuable business insights.
- Translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable, and secure data architectures aligned with enterprise data strategy.
- Design and implement modern data architectures, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Improve overall quality of data, including ease of access and use of data assets.
- Design integration solutions that connect disparate business systems and data sources to ensure seamless data flow.
- Support data platform teams to design operating models that support efficient data processing, integrations, reporting and AI model deployment.
- Design and develop performance‑optimised data models supporting business processes, analytics and reporting.
- Engage with technology providers to understand data‑relevant technology roadmaps and evaluate innovative solutions.
Key responsibilities
- Own and evolve Ramboll Tech’s enterprise data architecture, including data principles, target‑state models, and data architecture standards across platforms and products.
- Lead data‑architectural design transforming the data ecosystem into scalable, AI‑ready data products that drive strategic business value.
- Establish, document and enforce data‑architecture standards, modelling guidelines and best practices across the organisation.
- Define and maintain enterprise and domain data models.
- Shape data products, contracts, and interoperability patterns.
- Guide data‑platform usage (e.g., DWH, EDWH, Fabric, analytics layers).
- Ensure integration points adhere to strict data‑protection standards across multi‑geo environments.
- Implement frameworks for data lineage, catalogue and automated observability to ensure trust and reliability in pipelines.
- Maintain repositories representing data elements, entities, relationships, attributes, information flows and business glossary.
- Contribute to architectural governance by reviewing data‑related designs and ensuring alignment with Ramboll’s target architecture.
- Collaborate with data‑governance teams to embed data quality, security and compliance (e.g., GDPR) directly into integration pipelines.
- Work closely with cross‑functional teams—business stakeholders, product owners, data scientists, data engineers—to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- Build robust and scalable technology stacks and platforms for digital and analytics solutions.
- Continuously evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to improve data‑engineering efficiency.
How you will succeed in your role
Key qualifications, experience and skills are outlined below.
Key qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience in data architecture, with focus on cloud architecture, data integration and modelling.
- Deep understanding of modern data stack and its components.
- Previous engagement in establishing data architecture and governance.
- Leading data modelling, database design, data warehousing, master data management, and governance practices.
- Strong skills in ETL processes and data integration, having worked with data‑platform teams.
- Experience securing sensitive information.
- Experience in AEC industry is a plus.
- Developed data pipelines to extract, transform, load engineering platform data for analysis and reporting.
- Experience implementing decentralized data products within a Data Mesh architecture.
- Proven experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, GCP or AWS.
Skills
- Exceptional analytical and problem‑solving skills.
- Data Modelling (Conceptual, Logical, Physical), Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Data Mesh, Governance, Metadata Management, Master Data Management.
- Leading the lifecycle of production‑grade data products from modelling to deployment and optimisation.
- Familiarity with the DAMA Data Management Framework (DAMA‑DMBOK).
- Understanding of engineering platforms and data integration with engineering systems.
- Advanced knowledge of data modelling tools, data lakes, SQL, and pipeline design.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Fabric platform.
- Relevant certifications in cloud technologies (e.g., Data Engineering, Databricks).
About Ramboll
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering and consultancy company dedicated to sustainable change. The Ramboll Tech team accelerates digital transformation across the Ramboll Group and delivers AI initiatives, technology solutions and world‑class operations.
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