Data Analyst Lead/Architect

Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

We're looking for an experienced Lead Analyst lead/Architect to drive the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of our modern Azure-based data platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll combine deep engineering expertise with architectural thinking to build scalable, governed, and AI-ready data solutions that power analytics and business decision-making across multiple mobile app brands.

What you will do

• Platform architecture & technical standards

  • Define and evolve the enterprise data platform architecture and technology roadmap.

  • Make key technology decisions and document Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).

  • Establish Lakehouse layer definitions, inter-layer data contracts, and engineering best practices.

  • Lead architecture and design reviews to ensure scalable, maintainable, and secure solutions.

• Hands-on engineering delivery

  • Build reference implementations and reusable data pipeline frameworks.

  • Develop critical ingestion and transformation pipelines using Azure Databricks and Spark.

  • Conduct code reviews to maintain engineering quality and minimise technical debt.

  • Champion engineering excellence through practical implementation.

• Data modelling & data product ownership

  • Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models.

  • Own the end-to-end lifecycle of data products across multiple mobile application brands—from design and development through release, maintenance, and retirement.

  • Define data product standards, certification tiers, schema conventions, and Gold layer dataset structures.

  • Ensure data products remain aligned with evolving business requirements and source system changes.

• Governance, compliance & AI/ML readiness

  • Establish governance standards, metadata practices, and data contracts

  • Ensure platform alignment with security, privacy, and GDPR requirements.

  • Implement data cataloguing and lineage using Microsoft Purview.

  • Design architecture supporting feature stores and ML-ready datasets.

• Technical leadership & collaboration

  • Mentor and guide Data Engineers through complex technical challenges.

  • Collaborate with senior stakeholders to shape platform direction and technical strategy.

  • Partner with Systems Analysts to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

  • Foster a strong engineering culture focused on quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.

What you bring

Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field (Master's preferred).

• 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Architecture, or Analytics Engineering.

• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale cloud data platforms.

• Strong background leading technical architecture, engineering delivery, and data platform initiatives.

• Experience working in regulated or governance-focused environments.
  Technical Skills:

• Expertise with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Delta Lake, Azure Databricks, and Apache Spark.

• Strong knowledge of Medallion Architecture, data modelling, and modern data product design.

• Expert-level Python and SQL.

• Experience with Databricks Workflows, Databricks Asset Bundles, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (Bicep or equivalent).

• Knowledge of Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics.

• Strong understanding of data governance, security, data contracts, and compliance best practices.

Personal competencies

• Systems thinker with a strategic approach to platform design.

• Balances architectural excellence with practical delivery.

• Leads through technical expertise and hands-on collaboration.

• Communicates effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

• Champions governance, quality, and continuous improvement.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.