Data Architect

• Experience Level (for career site): Experienced Professional
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Job Family: Digital & IT

Company Description

Rexel. Electrifying solutions that make a sustainable future possible.

Rexel, worldwide expert in the professional multichannel distribution of electrical products and services for the energy world, addresses three main markets - residential, commercial, and industrial. Passionate, dedicated and highly knowledgeable, our people are instrumental in bringing innovative electrification solutions to the field and making energy transition happen. We believe in bringing positive energy to everything we do.

This Company operates through a network of over 1,900 branches in 17 countries, with more than 27,000 employees. The Group's sales were €19.4 billion in 2025.

Join Rexel's IT & Digital Team - Driving Innovation with Axelerate 28 :

With over 100 professionals across our Paris and Dallas offices, supported by a strong offshore and neashore teams, Rexel's IT & Digital organization is a key enabler of our new strategic plan, Axelerate 28.

Whether you're passionate about delivering world-class digital experiences for our customers, employees, or suppliers, or eager to tackle advanced Data and AI use cases that help Rexel stand out as a market leader, we're looking for technology experts to fuel our transformation.

We are actively innovating across critical domains: Digital Platforms and Microservices, Hybrid Cloud, Container-as-a-Service, Advanced Data and AI Cloud Technologies, Cybersecurity, Agile & DevSecOps, and Program & Project Management.

Joining Rexel's IT & Digital teams means becoming part of a dynamic and forward-thinking environment where your contributions make a real difference. You'll collaborate with diverse and skilled teams, work on high-impact projects, and grow both professionally and personally.

At Rexel, innovation is not just encouraged - it's expected. We empower our teams to think creatively, challenge conventions, and help shape the future of energy solutions.

Job Description

Your Impact :

At Rexel, we make our teams more successful by becoming a data driven company through the systematic adoption of predictive analytics. As we accelerate this transformation, we open a new position of Data Architect in our Data & Integration Technologies Teams.

As a Data Architect, your mission will be to drive the development of the Data Platform, the technical foundation supporting Advanced Analytics Solutions, by defining the technological roadmap and ensuring the continuous improvement of the platform and make the link with the AI and advanced analytics solutions that are supported by the data platform.

You will be key in establishing a close link between the central Hub teams and IT managers in several European countries. And you will act as an ambassador for the Data Platform, securing rapid adoption and enabling value generation for your internal customers.

Your Day-to-Day Responsibilities :

1) Drive the evolution of Rexel's enterprise data architecture

Partner with data citizens, country IT teams, and business stakeholders to implement data strategies, design data flows, and develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models.

Act as a subject-matter expert and reference point for data modeling, ensuring consistency, reusability, and alignment with existing data assets and enterprise architecture principles.

Define and govern data modeling, data integration, data quality, metadata management, and design standards across the organization.

Establish best practices for data products, data domains, data contracts, APIs, event-driven integrations, and self-service analytics.

Set up and lead key architecture and governance meetings with country IT services, ensuring clear decisions, ownership, and a defined path forward.

Keep up to date with industry trends and evaluate emerging technologies in cloud data platforms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics, automation, and data governance.

Contribute to the definition of an AI-ready data architecture, ensuring that data is discoverable, trusted, secure, well-governed, and suitable for advanced analytics and AI use cases.

2) Design and develop Rexel's modern data platform

Design and maintain Rexel's enterprise data model, and own its lifecycle, documentation, dependencies, and end-to-end lineage.

Design and evolve cloud-native data platforms, including data lakes, lakehouses, operational data stores, curated data layers, data marts, and analytical data products.

Define scalable and resilient data architectures using modern storage, processing, integration, and analytics technologies rather than relying solely on traditional relational database management systems.

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