Data Architect

Job title

Data Architect - Google Cloud Platform

Ref #

229074

Location

Qatar - Doha

Job family

Corporate & Commercial

• Closing date: 09-Dec-2025

*About Your Job:*
In this role, you are responsible for designing data solutions that meets the business needs of the organisation. This includes translating business requirements into data products, creating data models, defining data architecture, and ensuring data integrity, security, scalability and performance tailored to the specific needs of the initiative. You also will work closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, product owners and data analysts to ensure that data products are aligned with business objectives.

*Key Responsibilities:*

• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Leveraging strong business acumen, translate business requirements to create solution artefacts to build data products.
• Develop solution proposals that provide details of project scope, approach, deliverables and timeline.
• Design data models, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and performance.
• Ensure the scalability and performance of data solutions.
• Ensure the data security of the data products.
• Ensure the solution is optimized for cost-efficiency.
• Select appropriate technologies and tools offered by organisations' self-serve data platform for building the data products.
• Prepare key design decisions, and an ability to demonstrate structured consideration of multiple options (comparing competing technologies, functional design approaches etc).
• Guide the data engineers in solution development.
• Oversee and ensure the implementation of the solution defined.
• Provide solution oversight to IT and business stakeholders.

*Be Part Of An Extraordinary Story:*
Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You'll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what's never been done before.

Together, everything is possible.

Qualifications
Experience & Knowledge
:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (Degree in engineering, computer applications, commerce, or business administration).
• 6+ years of experience Big Data, data warehouse, data analytics projects, with at least 3 years in solution architect role.
• Strong knowledge of GCP services: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, Dataproc.
• Hands-on experience with programming languages (Python, SQL).
• Prior experience building large scale enterprise data architectures using commercial and/or open-source Data Analytics technologies.
• Solid understanding of security principles, IAM, and compliance frameworks.
• Hands-on experience in developing and implementing large-scale data warehouses, Business Intelligence solutions, including Data Lakes/Lakehouses.
• Strong understanding of data quality principles and methodologies.
• Data modelling and solutioning skills including strong foundation in data warehousing concepts, data normalisation, and dimensional data modelling such as Kimball, Inmon, data vault etc.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex data issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Knowledge of data mesh architecture.
• Knowledge of airline domain.
• Knowledge of agile/lean development methodologies.
• GCP certifications are a plus.

*About Qatar Airways Group:*
Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We've grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don't slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what's never been done before.

So whether you're creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.

*How To Apply:*
If you're ready to join a progressive team and have a challenging and rewarding career, then apply now by uploading your CV and completing our quick application form.

*About Qatar Airways Group*
Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We've grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don't slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what's never been done before.

So whether you're creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.