Data Architect

Finnair is a diverse community of professionals who work ambitiously with a big heart and commitment. A strong safety culture is our priority and at the core of our everyday work, never taking it for granted. We are committed to doing our share in solving the climate challenge by determinedly following our science-based pathway to decarbonize our operations. We find meaning in our purpose: With our heart in Finland, we make every journey better, today and tomorrow. Our values - Always Safe, Customer at Heart and Stronger Together- guide us in everything we do.

As part of the evolution of our Digital organisation, we are strengthening strategy implementation by clarifying structures and leadership to bring more focus, improve prioritisation, and support the business more closely. The new setup strengthens product management and software development practices and provides a clearer foundation for data and AI driven development, while enabling clearer roles and new opportunities for professional growth. 

As part of that change, we are now looking for a   

DATA ARCHITECT 

to join Finnair's Digital Transformation & Architecture team. 

In this role, you will be responsible for designing and evolving Finnair's enterprise data architecture, ensuring that data assets are well‑structured, reusable, governed, and aligned with business needs. You will work closely with data platform engineering, analytics, enterprise architecture, and business teams to enable high‑quality analytics, data products, and AI‑driven use cases. 

This role plays a critical part in Finnair's data platform transformation and data‑driven strategy execution. 

What You Will Do:

As a Data Architect, you will: 

• Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models across key business and operational domains. 

• Define and evolve enterprise data architecture principles, target state, standards, and reference models. 

• Design architectural structures for data products and domain based data ownership. 

• Ensure data products are well modelled, reusable, and aligned with business domains. 

• Work closely with data platform engineering to align data pipelines, storage, and modelling approaches with architecture standards. 

• Support the definition of data contracts, metadata structures, and semantic models (e.g. Snowflake, DBT, BI semantic layers). 

• Ensure scalable and efficient data platform design aligned with enterprise architecture and cloud platforms. 

• Contribute to data governance, data quality, lineage, metadata, and lifecycle management. 

• Enable analytics, AI, and reporting teams by providing well defined, high quality data structures. 

• Collaborate with enterprise, solution, and integration architects to ensure end-to-end data coherence. 

• Participate in architecture governance and design reviews. 

What we are looking for? 

• Typically, 5-12+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or data related areas or architecture. 

• Strong skills in enterprise data modelling (conceptual, logical, physical). 

• Experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, AWS data services). 

• Understanding of data products, data governance, metadata, and data quality. 

• Ability to translate business needs into scalable, reusable data structures. 

• Comfortable working with analytics, AI, and reporting teams. 

• Strong analytical mindset with clear communication skills. 

• Collaborative, structured, and quality‑oriented way of working. 

Why join Finnair? 

At Finnair,  

• You become part of One Crew working together to make every journey better - today and tomorrow. 

• Our values - Always Safe, Customer at Heart, and Stronger Together - guide how we work, make decisions, and support each other every day. 

• We offer meaningful work with real impact, where your contribution helps shape the future of aviation, digital services, and sustainable travel.  Collaboration, trust, and respect are part of everyday work, and people are encouraged to take ownership and grow. 

• You'll join a community where diverse perspectives are valued, continuous learning is supported, and development happens together - not alone. 

Are you interested? Get onboard! Please submit your application with your CV, cover letter and salary expectation no later than Monday, 6 April 2026. We will start going through the applications already during the application period. 

Please note that the hiring process includes a pre-employment security clearance and a drug test. 

In case you have any questions about the role, please contact Henrik Balk, VP Digital Transformation & Architecture ([email protected]) or Enterprise Architecture Lead Kimmo Uusikumpu ([email protected]).  

Please note that we do not process applications submitted via email. 

Our people are key to our success and the foundation that makes Finnair unique. We are committed to creating a safe work environment where all our people can thrive and succeed. We cherish diversity and strive to employ people with different backgrounds and experiences, to bring together multiple views to foster our business success.  According to our employee survey, respecting diversity is at a high level in our work community. You are welcome to join Finnair as your authentic self.