Senior AI & Data Strategy Expert

## The opportunity\n\nAt Vantage Towers, we\u2019re on a mission to power Europe\u2019s sustainable digital transformation. As a leading tower company, we\u2019re ushering in an era of technology-driven advances to help connect people, businesses, and internet-enabled devices like never before. We combine the scale, stability and quality of our tower network with the agility, optimism and energy of a start-up.\n\nAs a young TowerCo, we have already achieved strong results with a continued focus on accelerating growth and a special emphasis put on sustainability.\n\nAs part of our team, you\u2019ll work in a dynamic and multicultural environment that embraces open communication, collaboration and teamwork. \n\nIf you\u2019re ready to take responsibility and shape the future of telco infrastructure with us, then let\u2019s level up in your career and reach the top \u2013 together.\n\n## Your contribution\n\n * Design scalable, secure, future-proof data architectures that form the backbone of our VT Data Lake and analytics landscape\n * Define end-to-end solution designs for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption across platforms (incl. GCP)\n * Build and optimize data pipelines and data models (ETL/ELT, orchestration, storage design) to support analytics and reporting at scale\n * Enable selected AI/ML use cases by defining governed data access patterns and curated datasets that provide trusted context\n * Develop self-service BI and reporting that translates complex datasets into actionable insights (e.g., Power BI)\n * Lead technical design reviews, assess architectural trade-offs, and ensure solutions follow best-practice patterns\n * Guide and challenge external vendors to deliver high-quality, maintainable, compliant data and analytics solutions\n * Establish data governance principles, standards, and documentation to ensure architectural consistency and data quality\n * Explore and pilot emerging technologies relevant to modern data architecture (including agentic AI enablement where useful)\n\n\n\n## What makes you stand out\n\n * Strong architectural mindset with the ability to structure complex data landscapes into coherent, modular, and scalable solutions\n * Deep understanding of data modeling, data integration patterns, and cloud-native architecture principles\n * AI-ready data architecture: build governed models, pipelines and standards so analytics and AI/GenAI can consume trusted data at scale\n * Agentic enablement + translation: design-controlled access patterns (A2A/MCP concepts) and turn AI/GenAI requirements into actionable architecture decisions (performance, cost, governance)\n * Ability to simplify complex technical designs for non-technical stakeholders and influence decision-making\n * Confident, structured, and solution-oriented working style with high standards for quality and maintainability\n * Experience operating in distributed, multinational environments with diverse technical stakeholders\n * Hands-on expertise in cloud data platforms, modern ETL/ELT design, and data-driven product development\n * Strong ability to balance conceptual architecture thinking with pragmatic, delivery-focused execution\n\n\n\n## You must have\n\n * University degree in IT, computer science, engineering, business with IT focus, or equivalent experience\n * 5+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or related roles, incl. 2+ years in cloud environments (ideally GCP)\n * Strong knowledge of data architecture principles (data modeling, integration patterns, pipeline orchestration, storage design)\n * AI enablement (platform-side): hands-on exposure to supporting AI/ML workloads on the data platform (e.g., integrating data/pipelines for Vertex AI / BigQuery ML-style use cases, and setting up the data access + monitoring needed for reliable production use)\n * Interoperability experience: enabling cross-platform access to governed data via standard interfaces/protocols (e.g., MCP / A2A concepts)\n * Proficient programming skills (Python or Java) and advanced SQL\n * Practical experience with BI/reporting platforms, preferably Power BI\n * Experience designing or implementing scalable, cloud-native data solutions\n * Proven experience working across distributed and multinational teams\n * Fluent English (C1);\n\n\n\n## What we offer\n\n * A diverse, multicultural setup based on our values \u2013 Accountability, Respect, Teamwork, and Trust \u2013 and the unique opportunity to shape the organisation \n * An attractive salary package\n * Meal Allowance: Delivered on Pluxee card - \u20ac10.20/day\n * Pension Plan\n * Full Health Insurance: For employees and co-payment for family members\n * Life Insurance\n * 7 extra vacation days: 4 flexible, plus 3 fixed \u2014 1 on Carnival, 1 on Christmas, and half a day on Easter and New Year\u0027s.\n * Parking Slot\n\nInterested? Send us your CV with your desired salary. Depending on the role, we generally invite you to two rounds of interviews before you receive your offer.\n\n\n\n\nNot the right match? We have plenty of other opportunities to choose from in this department here.\n\n#LI-Hybrid\n