Data Platform & Data Architecture Consultant

About the Position

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We are currently hiring a Data Platform & Data Architecture Consultant in Berlin. As a consultant, you are the person clients trust to turn their data infrastructure from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage. You design data landscapes, stand up and scale cloud data platforms, and set the guardrails that let entire organisations build on data safely and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Building and operating platforms: Design, provision, and harden cloud data platforms end to end, covering storage and compute, networking, security and IAM, observability, and cost.
• Shaping the data architecture: Design logical and physical data models, map data flows and lineage across systems, and make the structural decisions that determine how data is organised, integrated, and consumed.
• Advising and translating: Work with data engineers, data scientists, product owners, and senior client stakeholders to understand their needs and turn that into platform strategy and architecture decisions.

Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree in Engineering or Technology (e.g., Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or similar)
  • Verbal and written fluency in English
  • 2–4 years of full-time work experience in cloud data infrastructure, data platform engineering, or data architecture.
  • Experience working in agile product or delivery teams, gained after completing your Master's degree
  • Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including compute, storage, networking, and identity management
  • Practical experience with at least one modern cloud data platform such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, or Microsoft Fabric
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation) and modern CI/CD and DevOps workflows
  • Experience with data modeling, data architecture, or designing data flows and integration patterns across systems
  • Experience designing or operating data governance, security controls, and platform observability in environments serving multiple teams or domains
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders including engineers, analysts, product owners, and business leaders in client-facing settings

• Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with data mesh, data product, or data lakehouse architectures at an organisational level
  • Depth in enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical modeling, data lineage, and approaches such as dimensional modeling or Data Vault
  • Hands-on experience with multi-tenant platform design or multi-cloud environments
  • Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) in data platform contexts

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Full-time position
• On-site work in Berlin
• Opportunity to work at the edge of technology
• Be part of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization

About the Company

Netlight strives to be a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization. Regardless of who you are, what personality, background, and experience you have, you enrich our culture through your values. Netlight’s purpose is to unleash full potential, realize great careers, and fulfill personal growth. To achieve this, we have a highly engaged network organization, where every employee gets a mentor, delivery coach, and personal communities. The key to our continued success is trust and personal responsibility, diverse experiences, challenging opportunities, and developing from personal values. Every Netlighter is an active part of building and shaping this culture, which leads to a clear correlation between personal growth and the growth of Netlight.

Ready to shape the future with us? If we find that your profile matches what we are looking for, you will hear from us within two weeks of applying. Submit your application today-we’re excited to get to know you!