Overview

As a Manager / Senior Data & AI Architect in Barcelona, you will bridge strategy, business, and technology for Life Sciences. You'll lead end-to-end data and AI architecture design, guide delivery, and shape reusable capabilities. You'll engage in pre-sales, articulate complex decisions to executives, and mentor teams to scale solutions.

This role combines hands-on technical depth with client-facing and commercial responsibilities to grow our Life Sciences practice. You'll join a integral Data & AI team while collaborating locally across Iberia and with broader BIP geographies.

Compensaciones / Beneficios hybrid working model private health insurance wellness platforms meal vouchers parental leave benefits training and certifications

Responsabilidades Design end-to-end Data, Analytics and AI architectures (data lake/lakehouse, integration, governance, ML/GenAI, AI agents).

Translate Life Sciences business needs into scalable, secure technology solutions.

Act as trusted technical advisor to CIOs/CDOs and architecture teams; lead pre-sales activities and client workshops.

Collaborate with commercial leaders to identify and mature opportunities; contribute to proposals and roadmaps.

Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams (data engineers, data scientists, ML engineers, AI specialists).

Define architecture standards across security, observability, MLOps/LLMOps, governance and data quality.





Ensure production operability, performance, security, cost control and long-term scalability.

Mentor junior colleagues and promote best practices through design reviews and knowledge sharing.

Requisitos principales 7+ years of experience in data/analytics/cloud/AI with architecture or technical lead responsibilities.

Proven Life Sciences domain knowledge and understanding of regulatory context.

Experience designing modern data solutions (lake/lakehouse, warehouse, streaming, APIs, governance).

Deep knowledge of at least one major hyperscaler (Azure, AWS or Google Cloud) and multi-cloud capability.

Experience with Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, BigQuery or equivalent.

Strong SQL and Python; working knowledge of Spark and distributed systems.

Knowledge of AI/ML and GenAI architectures (LLMs, RAG, agents, vector search, guardrails, observability).

Strong client-facing experience and ability to present to technical and executive audiences; pre-sales experience.

Professional English (C1) and Spanish; Italian or Portuguese a plus.

Willingness for hybrid work in Barcelona and occasional travel.

Consulting mindset and client orientation

Communication and influencing skills

Commercial and pre-sales mindset

Data lake/lakehouse architectures

Data governance, data quality, MDM

MLOps / LLMOps, CI/CD, DevOps

📌 Data & AI Architect - Life Sciences (Barcelona)
🏢 Business Integration Partners
📍 Barcelona