Global Data Architect

**About Technip Energies**

Technip Energies is a leading engineering and technology company serving the energy transition, with leading positions in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), hydrogen and ethylene and with a strong presence in the growing markets of blue and green hydrogen, sustainable chemistry, floating offshore wind turbines and CO2 capture and storage. The company benefits from its strong project delivery model, supported by an extensive offering of technologies, products and services.

Driven by our ESG and Diversity & Inclusion commitments **( **here **) **, our 15,000 employees), present in 34 countries, are fully committed to bringing our customers' innovative projects to life, pushing the boundaries of what is possible to accelerate the energy transition towards a better future.

**About the Job**

This is not just a job, it’s a life-changing adventure in a global environment where you team up to break boundaries thanks to the innovation, creativity, resilience, and team spirit of our people.

**The role which you will play**

Our Global Data Architect will contribute to our major data governance and data services activities and accelerate our digitalization activities by ensuring the quality of our data foundation.

Our Global Data Architect will be responsible to coordinate the activities of several projects and use cases related to data to develop a single global approach in terms of data security, data policies, data modelling for structure and unstructured data. He will also participate actively to the design authority and the architecture of the various data technical assets (such as data platform, search & indexing platform, AI platform, Integration platform).

**The people you will work with**

You will support our data delivery teams, to bring consistency of our global Project & Services data architecture, data model and data lifecycle process. You will work in collaboration with the Data Governance lead, the Data Office, the data domain owners, the data managers, data delivery teams, cloud transformation teams, and business stakeholders.

The Global Data Architect will be part of global IDS (Information and Digital Services) Organization. You will report directly to the Data Services Manager.

**The position is in Paris Area, France.**

**Responsibilities**

**Global Data Architecture**
- Lead the design and delivery of T.EN data platforms aligned with the identified business needs, but also driven by enterprise architecture principles.
- Define the data architecture principles for T.EN in collaboration with other Enterprise architects and cloud transformation teams.
- Simplify the existing data architecture, delivering reusable services and cost-saving opportunities in line with the policies and standards of the group.
- Drive project knowledge back to the enterprise data model and ensure that it evolves correctly.
- Participate to collaborative team working with other areas within Enterprise Architecture or Business Application groups to bring a data perspective to ensure that all solutions are complete, operable, conform to business processes, and meet the business needs with the agreed quality of service.
- Participate in the supplier selection process, evaluating usefulness and cost of products and making appropriate recommendations.
- Develop & manage the data technologies ecosystem of T.EN from an architecture standpoint (e.g. relationship with partners & providers).
- Ensure technology solutions are in alignment with data architecture principles and target state.
- Manage technical debt.

**Data projects/products delivery
- Lead the data design of solutions for projects and programs; identify gap re. existing data assets; through expert knowledge translate high-level business requirements into corresponding data services.
- Define and own data architecture processes for project development (e.g. data management by design).
- Work as part of the project management team on large program, shaping the delivery of projects.
- Work closely with external suppliers to ensure solution makes best use of technology and meets requirements.
- Control throughout the entire project lifecycle for the end-to-end solution of the project regarding data and compliance with enterprise data model and data domains.
- Coordinate with various data services roles (data engagement, service engineer, data governance), data delivery teams and cloud transformation teams.
- Manage (from a functional perspective) external resources on-boarded on projects.

**Main Skills**
- Significant experience on architecture cloud environment (Azure).
- Experience in designing platform architecture.
- Very good knowledge of design pattern of data product (include APIs and event driven integration, data science, search and indexing, IoT).
- Entity Relationship modeling, metadata systems, data quality tools and techniques.
- Mastering of data tools from MDM, to advanced data technologies
- Experience in data warehousing,