Data Governance & Enterprise Architect
- Sword Services
- Nyon, Switzerland
- CHF 115,000 – CHF 145,000
We are seeking a Data Governance & Enterprise Architect to strengthen the ICT Governance team of one of our clients in Nyon. This role plays a key part in ensuring that enterprise data is effectively governed, structured, integrated, and managed across multiple business and technology solutions while supporting the organization's digital transformation initiatives.
Job Responsibilities
- Define, review, and enhance conceptual, logical, and physical data models supporting business and technology solutions.
- Maintain and update enterprise data architecture artifacts, including data flows, lifecycle diagrams, interfaces, and business processes within the enterprise architecture repository.
- Ensure consistency and alignment of master data and reference data across applications and platforms.
- Contribute to the definition, implementation, and continuous improvement of data governance frameworks, policies, and standards.
- Partner with business stakeholders to document and maintain high-quality metadata and data catalog information.
- Work closely with solution architects to ensure data-related solutions comply with established architectural principles and best practices.
- Support the design of scalable and reliable data analytics and data science environments in collaboration with data specialists.
- Foster collaboration across architecture, analytics, privacy, and business teams to promote effective data management practices.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in data governance, data management, and analytics initiatives.
- Strong hands-on expertise with relational and non-relational databases, as well as modern data warehouse or data lake platforms.
- Experience working with enterprise architecture solutions; familiarity with LeanIX is considered an advantage.
- Solid understanding of data modeling methodologies and information architecture principles.
- Proven ability to analyze complex business requirements and translate them into structured data solutions.
- Strong problem-solving capabilities combined with a service-oriented and collaborative mindset.
- Experience with data cataloging, metadata management, or governance platforms is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of business process analysis and process modeling techniques is an asset.
Skills
- Data Governance
- Enterprise Architecture
- Data Modeling
- Metadata Management
- Data Cataloging
- Data Analytics
- Data Management







