Staff Technical Data Architect, Integrations

Our Mission: Why Lighthouse? At Lighthouse, we’re on a mission to revolutionize commercial strategy as hospitality’s most powerful AI platform. We take the world's largest hotel data network and transform it into real-time intelligence that drives action. We don't just deliver insights; we empower businesses to make decisions that move revenue. With $370M in Series C funding and over $100M in ARR, we are scaling at lightspeed. Our 850+ teammates across 35 countries aren't just building software—they are leveraging cutting-edge AI to help hoteliers be the first to act. Tens of thousands of hotels across 185 countries trust Lighthouse to execute their commercial strategy, including every one of the top 15 global chains and thousands of independent hotels that consistently outperform their markets. With Lighthouse AI, the intelligence gets deeper. Decisions get smarter. Actions get faster. We help hoteliers be first to act. Lighthouse Values: Our guiding light We are Lumineers. Our shared values keep us on a collaborative path fostering a cultural and customer centric environment • Pursuit of greatness: We’re innovators who care deeply about our customers’ success. Our team brings their best work, stays curious, and delivers excellence through attention to detail • Meaningful work matters: We make every moment count by knowing what to deliver, why it matters, and how it drives Lighthouse forward • Elevate each other: We don’t just work together - we grow together. What unites us is understanding each other as people and working toward shared goals We’re more than just a workplace – we’re a community. Collaborative, fun, and deeply committed, we work hard together to revolutionize the hospitality sector. Are you ready to join us and shine brighter in the industry’s most exciting rocket-ship? 🚀 Job Details • 💼 Engineering, Integrations • 📍 Belgium • 🕜 Full-Time/Hybrid What you will do The Lighthouse Integrations Engineering teams are responsible for large-scale ingestion and transformation of hospitality data into Lighthouse’s data infrastructure. We build and maintain complex data pipelines handling large data sets from a wide range of connected hospitality systems. On a daily basis, our integrations data pipelines process millions of hotel reservations, tens of millions of prices, transactions and other data points from hundreds of integrated systems, hundreds of terabytes of daily data. As Staff Technical Data Architect, Integrations, you will own the technical architecture of our Integration domains, a set of end-to-end data domains, unifying the world's hospitality data into a strategic unified canonical data model. This is a high-impact role where you will see your work directly translate into real-world applications that impact hotels worldwide. The role requires you to combine strong technical experience in data architecture and data engineering with a good sense of business acumen, product affinity and a drive for excellence. Where you will have impact • Own the technical architecture of the data systems and pipelines that ingest and transform the massive volume of data powering our products. Your work spans multiple engineering teams and domains. • Gather requirements to realize the product and technical vision and to ingest and process the massive data sets we retrieve from third party systems • Map out our current architecture, analyze and design the required future architecture to meet these requirements • Help build, test, maintain, support and evolve the current and future architecture. Regularly dive deep into code, operational tooling, cloud resources, logs, monitoring, data quality, to stay grounded in the day-to-day reality of data engineering work. • Proactively and continuously improve the architecture and systems design. • Set up and own standards and best practices in data engineering and data architecture at scale. • Be a trusted go-to technical authority for the data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and high quality. • Collaborate with the architects and leaders in other engineering and product teams, and in other parts of the organization to improve our organization’s architecture maturity. • Embed AI strategy in the Integrations architecture, and set the standard for how AI is applied across the department in architecture and engineering work. Identify and prioritize AI initiatives across our pipelines, tooling and engineering workflows; design and pilot those solutions. About our team The Integrations function spans multiple teams and domains that ingest, process, and move large volumes of varied data across systems. As new roadmap initiatives create opportunities to build and rebuild key solutions, you will bring dedicated architectural expertise to the function and help engineers establish consistent, high-quality approaches across existing and greenfield systems. What's in it for you? • Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance. • Career development: Workshops, frameworks, and trainings to maximize your professional potential. • Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide. • Mobility options: Mobility budget or company car (based on your job category). • Net allowance: Support for home office related expenses. • Vouchers: Lunch vouchers & Eco vouchers. • Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents. • Pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future. • Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent. Who you are • You come from a strong hands-on background in data engineering, with deep experience in ETL/ELT, data pipelines, complex data transformations, and data modelling. Ideally, you have worked as a senior data engineer on various types of data architectures and pipelines at scale before transitioning to a data architect role. • You have proven experience as a data architect incl. on (cloud) systems level, ideally across multiple teams, domains or projects. • You have experience in a (data) integration context, where robustness, reusable connector and ingestion frameworks, external integration patterns like schema-drift detection, backfill and replay, idempotency are key. • You get energized from optimizing technical architectures, structure, tooling, support and other processes, and from designing future-proof architectures in a fast-moving environment. • You have a proactive, "can-do" attitude, viewing challenges as opportunities and inspiring a positive, solution-oriented mindset. • You excel at seeing the bigger picture, breaking down large architectural projects into clear, scoped technical initiatives. • You have strong knowledge of data cloud technologies, data-related services and systems (like Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Composer/Airflow), and cloud database solutions (like BigQuery, Spanner, Snowflake, or Databricks). • Professional proficiency in Python for large-scale data processing and pipeline development. • You are a forward-thinking architect who views AI as a core part of modern architecture. You have hands-on experience in working with AI tools and agentic workflows to ship higher-quality work, faster. • You are fluent in English, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. We welcome • Experience building integrations with third-party APIs and other external data sources. • Experience within the hospitality technology sector or similar industries (e.g. airline industry). Technologies you will work with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Kubernetes, Python, Claude code. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging Thank you for considering a career with Lighthouse. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values equal opportunity for all. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. Our commitment to equality is part of our culture. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, please notify your recruiter. Not ticking every box? No problem! We value diverse backgrounds and unique skill sets, and we encourage individuals from all walks of life to apply. If your experience looks a little different from what we've described, but you're passionate about what we do and are a quick learner, we'd love to hear from you! Learn more about our careers and recruitment process | Our company and leadership team | Beware of recruitment scams