Senior Data Architect (Governance, Quality, and Pipelines) - Barcelona

Indra·Barcelona, Spain

What they offer

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days — the ad has the split.

What they ask for

  • Have the right to work in Spain

    Indra doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.

  • Speak fluent Spanish

    Listed as a requirement in the ad.

  • Work in English

    English is required, per the ad.

  • Be near Barcelona for hybrid days

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have senior-level experience

    Senior-level role.

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What you'll do

  • Define and evolve robust data architectures in critical environments, ensuring scalability, traceability, and security.
  • Design end-to-end data pipelines, from ingestion to analytical exploitation, including batch and streaming processing.
  • Establish data governance models, including metadata, catalog, lineage, and quality controls.
  • Define and implement data quality rules, validations, monitoring, and remediation mechanisms.
  • Collaborate on defining logical and physical models, as well as data contracts and exchange rules.
  • Ensure data integrity, consistency, and traceability across distributed, hybrid, or cloud architectures.
  • Coordinate with development, data, architecture, security, and business teams to ensure end-to-end coherence.
  • Oversee the evolution of data platforms, promoting best practices, automation, and performance optimization.
  • Participate in technical decisions and solution reviews in data lake, data warehouse, data mesh, or data fabric environments.
  • Ensure regulatory and security compliance of data (GDPR, NIS2, ENS, ISO 27001).

What you'll get

  • Stability and Future 🏢✨: Long-term projects at a leading Defense company with over 60,000 professionals, offering financial security.
  • Innovative and High-Impact Projects 🚀: You will work with cutting-edge technologies, with impact both nationally and internationally.
  • Close and Transparent Environment 🤝: You will enjoy direct and fluid communication with managers and colleagues, in a collaborative and open environment.
  • Autonomy and Flexibility ⏳: You will have the freedom to organize your work, with real work-life balance adapted to your pace.
  • Career Plan Tailored to You 📈: Designed to boost your growth and professional development.
  • Continuous Training 📚: through Open University and Udemy for Business (more than 6,000 courses to specialize!).
  • Exclusive Discounts for Your Well-being 🎁: Enjoy perks at gyms, restaurants, leisure, and much more as an Indra employee.
  • Competitive Compensation 💰 and flexible benefit plans 💸📊 tailored to your needs.
  • 💻 Remote work: 60%, 3 days from home, 2 days in the office.

Job description

At Indra Group, we protect what matters most.
We lead the development of cutting-edge technological solutions that strengthen national and international security.

💻 Join our European projects team!
As a leading company in the defense sector, we are looking to strengthen our team with several Senior Data Architecture profiles in Barcelona, covering different data specialties: governance, quality, and pipeline design in critical environments.

🎯 What are we looking for?

  • Degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, or a related field.
  • Solid experience as a data architect in complex and distributed environments.
  • Advanced knowledge in data pipeline design, ETL/ELT, batch and streaming processing, and/or experience in data governance (metadata, cataloging, lineage, quality, and traceability).
  • Experience in defining data quality models, validations, monitoring, and continuous improvement, or in modern data architectures such as data lake, data warehouse, data mesh, or data fabric.
  • Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
  • Experience with cloud, hybrid environments, and distributed platforms.
  • Knowledge of automation, CI/CD, and data engineering best practices.
  • Valuable experience in data security: IAM, encryption, access control, and auditing.
  • Valuable experience in Big Data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
  • Advanced level of spoken and written English.
  • Analytical profile with a cross-functional view of data, technical leadership, and strong communication skills with different stakeholders.

📌 Here's how our process works

  • Application review 🔍 - We look at your experience and see if you're a fit for what we're looking for.
  • Initial chat (5-10 min) 📞 - If you get a call from an unknown number, it's us. It'll be a relaxed conversation to get to know you and answer any questions.
  • Interview with the talent acquisition team🤝: We want you to get to know us better as a company: values, career paths, etc.... so that both you and the project team can determine if there's a match.
  • Technical interview 🤝 - You'll meet the team, who will explain the project and daily tasks in detail, and will also ask about your knowledge and technical skills. Additionally, we'll send you some brief psychological and English competency assessments (if required) to better understand your profile.
  • Offer and welcome 🎉 - If everything goes well, you'll join our team and we'll start this new chapter together!

🕒 Estimated time: We aim to keep it agile, around 1-2 weeks.

Our commitment is to promote work environments where people are treated with respect and dignity, fostering the professional development of staff and ensuring equal opportunities in their selection, training, and promotion, offering a work environment free of any discrimination based on gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, ethnicity, marital status, or any other personal or social circumstance.

¡INDRA is a Top Employer 2026 company! Join a company certified as one of the best employers in Spain, thanks to our comprehensive HR management and the conditions we offer our professionals.

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About the company

Indra

Indra

IT and Defense

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Spanish company
57000 employees