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Senior Data Architect

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Zürich, Switzerland

Experience

Oct 2025 - Present
4 months
Zürich, Switzerland

Senior Data Architect

Odd Parrot

  • Supporting UBS Wealth Management as Senior Data Architect within a multi-year enterprise data mesh transformation.
  • Guiding a strategic stream to design and implement a data product aligned with UBS’s enterprise-wide data mesh framework.
  • Leading architecture definition, governance alignment, and cross-domain integration to ensure scalable, compliant, and reusable data products across global stakeholders.
  • UBS – Global Wealth Management Data Product Architecture: Designed an enterprise-aligned data product spanning 26 countries, defining data contracts, metadata standards, and federated architecture patterns enabling cross-domain reuse across the bank.
  • Defined cross-jurisdictional data policies and access controls to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements across multiple regions (EU, APAC, LATAM, CH).
Feb 2020 - Sep 2025
5 years 8 months
Zürich, Switzerland

Senior Data Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Developed data mesh architectures, enterprise integration patterns, and migration strategies enabling standardized, high-availability systems across global regions.
  • Guided multi-vendor teams in architecture, integration, and delivery of microservices-based applications.
  • led solution design, requirements analysis, and testing processes in Agile frameworks.
  • Credit Agricole CIB – Introduced data mesh architecture (Amazon Sagemaker), led the end-to-end migration of the CIB business units’ data lake to AWS, managing petabyte-scale ingestion and the migration of over 100+ data pipelines.
  • BMW – Resident Architect, optimized application performance across Spark/Glue workloads, reducing costs and improving resilience.
  • Roche – Data Vault/Data Warehouse on Redshift: Designed and implemented a Data Vault 2.0 architecture for Roche’s enterprise data warehouse, modelling Hubs, Links, and Satellites for auditability and compliance. Built scalable ELT pipelines using dbt and AWS Redshift, improving data lineage, testing automation, and analytics readiness for regulated scientific workflows.
  • Bosch – Data Mesh for logistic operating system: Designed a data mesh and integration framework to enable secure and standardized multi-domain collaboration.
  • BP – Enterprise Data Consolidation: Architected pipelines to consolidate Oracle, DB2, and SAP systems into a unified AWS-based platform, reducing manual data entry by 30% and improving analytics availability.
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
1 year 11 months
Zürich, Switzerland

Big Data Platform Engineer

Credit Suisse

  • Owned operations & maintenance of a large-scale Cloudera-based application platform.
  • Scaled the system from 50 → 90 nodes; automated configuration, monitoring, and ingestion workflows.
  • Delivered proactive monitoring reducing incident rates to 1 per quarter with fast recovery.
Oct 2015 - Feb 2018
2 years 5 months
Paris, France

Big Data Engineer

Sentelis

  • Designed and deployed enterprise web and analytics platforms (Java, Spark, Oracle, Cloudera).
  • Created a 360° customer view application for a major insurance company using Play Framework, integrating data from multiple systems to deliver an interactive, web-based interface for marketing and customer insight.
  • Delivered customer-facing applications integrating multiple systems into interactive analytics dashboards.
  • Supervised infrastructure automation and secured system deployment (Puppet, Python, Cloudera Manager).

Summary

Experienced and collaborative Data & AI Architect with 10+ years delivering scalable data platforms for enterprise clients across life science, banking, automotive, and insurance sectors. Specialized in cloud-native data lakes, data mesh, and real-time analytics on AWS. Known for using the right tools to solve complex data problems and designing secure, intuitive architectures that process terabytes of structured and unstructured data. Proven ability to align data strategy with business outcomes, drive automation, and enable teams to unlock the full value of their data.

Languages

French
Native
English
Advanced
Italian
Advanced

Education

Oct 2013 - Jun 2015

École Polytechnique

Master in Complex Systems Architecture · Complex Systems Architecture · Paris, France

Oct 2008 - Jun 2013

Politecnico di Torino

Computer Science Engineering · Computer Science Engineering · Italy

Certifications & licenses

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty

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