​​Lead Data Platform Architect​

Posted:
4/15/2026, 12:22:33 AM

Location(s):
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland ⋅ Västerås, Västmanland County, Sweden ⋅ Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland ⋅ Västmanland County, Sweden ⋅ Zurich, Switzerland ⋅ Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland ⋅ Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Location:

Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland

Job ID:

R0125128

Date Posted:

2026-04-15

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY POLAND SP. Z O.O.

Profession (Job Category):

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

The Opportunity 

Business Unit Service is at the forefront of delivering advanced digital and outcomebased service solutions worldwide. Our Service R&D organization develops nextgeneration digital, datadriven, and OTintegrated service solutions that enable longterm asset performance, reliability, and operational excellence across the energy and industrial domain. 

As Lead Data Platform Architect, you will play a key role in defining and evolving the data platform foundation that underpins BU Service digital service solutions. You will ensure that data platforms spanning cloud services, IoT and OT data sources, analytics, and AI enablement are architected, governed, and operated to support scalable, secure, and highquality digital solutions. 

This role directly impacts the success of datadriven services, advanced analytics, and AIpowered use cases, where data quality, availability, and reliability are critical for business value and customer trust. 

How You’ll Make an Impact 

  • Defining and owning the data platform strategy and architecture for digital service solutions, covering cloudnative data platforms, data lakes/lakehouses, streaming and batch pipelines, and analytics services. 

  • Establishing architectural principles and standards aligned with modern cloud delivery models, industrial scalability, and longlifecycle service solutions. 

  • Governing data ingestion and integration patterns from cloud services, enterprise systems, IoT, OT devices, and edge software. 

  • Designing and maintaining data models, schemas, and integration patterns that ensure consistent, reusable, and highquality data across solutions. 

  • Establishing and operating data governance frameworks, including data quality, lineage, traceability, ownership, and lifecycle management. 

  • Ensuring compliance with cybersecurity, regulatory, and industrial data handling requirements. 

  • Enabling advanced analytics, AI/ML, and digital twin use cases through appropriate data platform capabilities, pipelines, and analytics services. 

  • Guiding implementation of robust, scalable data pipelines and storage solutions in collaboration with development, platform, DevOps, AI, cybersecurity, and IT teams. 

  • Integrating data platform components into CI/CD pipelines, supporting automated testing, deployment, and governance controls. 

  • Defining and monitoring key metrics related to data quality, platform reliability, usage, and business impact. 

Your Background 

  • University degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. 

  • Proven experience in designing, implementing, or governing cloudbased data platforms in complex digital or industrial environments. 

  • Strong understanding of data modeling, data pipelines, and data lifecycle management. 

  • Experience with data ingestion from IoT, OT, and enterprise systems. 

  • Solid knowledge of data governance, data quality management, and traceability concepts. 

  • Experience working in agile, hybrid, or scaled development environments. 

  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across global, crossfunctional teams 

 

What’s in It for You 

  • A strategic leadership role where your work directly shapes the quality and reliability of nextgeneration digital service solutions 

  • The opportunity to operate at enterprise scale, influencing standards, capabilities, and ways of working beyond individual projects 

  • A collaborative, technologydriven environment with strong links to innovation, R&D, and service transformation 

  • Exposure to complex, realworld digital challenges across cloud, edge, and industrial domains 

  • A role designed for experienced professionals who want to combine technical depth with organizational leadership and strategic impact 

More about us

We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefits to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us, in work and out. 

We can provide more information during the recruitment process. 

We are committed to full transparency and compliance with all legal requirements, ensuring that every candidate knows exactly what to expect at each stage of the recruitment process. Once the process is successfully completed, we will share detailed information about financial conditions and benefits with the selected candidate. Before signing the employment contract, you will receive all remaining details of the offer, giving you the time and space to review everything carefully.

*Applicable only for Poland location align with local law regulations.

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Hitachi America Ltd

Website: https://hitachi.com/

Headquarter Location: Santa Clara, California, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1959

IPO Status: Private

Industries: Consulting ⋅ Industrial Engineering ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ Machinery Manufacturing ⋅ Manufacturing ⋅ Mining Technology