Enterprise Data & AI Architect

About UNIQA Insurance Group

As one of the leading insurance companies, UNIQA knows that together they can achieve more. At UNIQA, they are the community for a better life, using individual skills to shape a better future together. UNIQA IT Services GmbH (UITS) is the IT service provider of the UNIQA Group.

Purpose of the Function

The Enterprise Data & AI Architect plays a central role in shaping UNIQA’s journey towards becoming a data- and AI-driven company. This function defines and governs the data and AI target architecture, ensuring the organization can efficiently turn data into business insights, automation, and intelligent services.

What To Expect

• Strategy & Vision: Define and evolve UNIQA’s Data & AI target architecture, covering data ingestion, transformation, governance, MLOps, and monitoring.
• Architecture Design & Governance: Establish standards and lifecycle processes for data and AI models, ensuring reusability, compliance, traceability, and ethical AI use.
• Enterprise Architecture Management: Maintain data and AI domains within LeanIX, ensuring integration across EA domains. Define data and service communication patterns supporting AI and automation use cases.
• Technology Leadership: Lead RFI/RFP processes for data, AI, and MLOps tool selection. Develop reusable building blocks for data and AI workloads that promote scalability, cost efficiency, and compliance.
• Strategic Planning & Advisory: Support AI roadmapping and platform evolution; advise architects and data scientists on AI-enabled solution design. Foster the transition from batch to streaming and real-time analytics as the foundation for AI-driven decisions. Contribute to the strategic plan for optimizing UNIQA's application, data, and AI landscape.
• Culture & Compliance: Promote data & AI architecture culture across business and IT. Ensure compliance with data governance, ethics, and regulatory requirements for AI and data use.

What We Expect

• Advanced analytics, ML, AI (including Generative & Agentic AI)
• GenAI / Agentic AI frameworks such as Microsoft Agent Framework or LangChain / LangGraph
• Modern data architecture (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, event-driven design, knowledge graphs)
• Data modeling, semantic layers, metadata management
• Cloud and hybrid data infrastructures, with hands-on experience in at least one hyperscale (Azure preferred).
• Modern data concepts such as data mesh, Lakehouse, event-driven design, and knowledge graphs.
• Business value-driven mindset: connecting AI and data capabilities to measurable business impact.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, able to bridge business, data science, and IT architecture worlds.
• Fluent English (German a plus)

Benefits

• An onboarding plan, welcome events, and a buddy system for a smooth start.
• Discounted DO&CO canteen in the office and financial support for meals when working from home.
• Modern & bright office with break areas in the heart of the city and modern IT equipment.
• Discounted insurance and company subsidy, plus vouchers for various stores.
• Flexible working hours tailored to your needs.
• Possibility to work from home and a financial starter package.
• Remote work within the EU: up to 20 days a year from an EU country of your choice.
• Optimal accessibility by public transport with 50% coverage of your annual ticket.
• Support from the works council with a wide range of subsidies and offers.
• On-site vaccination campaigns, check-ups, blood donation, and free/anonymous coaching.
• Various training opportunities for professional and personal growth.
• Networking and celebration opportunities at summer parties, after-work get-togethers, and winter events.

Key skills/competency

• Data Architecture
• AI Strategy
• MLOps
• Data Governance
• Cloud Infrastructure (Azure)
• Generative AI
• Data Modeling
• Event-Driven Design
• Strategic Planning
• Business Insights