Job Description

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 Digitalorganisation, we are strengthening strategy implementation by clarifying structures and leadership to bring more focus, improveprioritisation, and support the business more closely. The new setup strengthens product management and software development practices and provides a clearer foundation for data and AIdriven development, while enabling clearer roles and new opportunities for professional growth.

As part of thatchange,we are now looking for a

DATAARCHITECT

tojoin Finnair’s Digital Transformation & Architecture team.

In this role, you willbe responsible fordesigning 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 andmaintainconceptual, 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 anddomainbaseddata ownership

• Ensure data products are wellmodelled, 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 providingwelldefined, highqualitydata structures

• Collaborate with enterprise, solution, andintegrationarchitects to ensure end-to-end data coherence

• Participatein architecture governance and design reviews

Whatwe arelooking for?

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

• Strong skills in enterprise datamodelling(conceptual, logical, physical)

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

• Understanding ofdata 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’lljoin a community where diverse perspectives arevalued,continuous learning is supported, and development happens together — not alone.

Are you interested? Get onboard! Pleasesubmityour application with your CV, cover letter and salary expectation no later than Monday,6April 2026 Wewillstart 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 contactHenrik Balk, VP Digital Transformation & Architecture (henrik.balk@finnair.com) or Enterprise Architecture Lead Kimmo Uusikumpu (kimmo.uusikumpu@finnair.com).

Please note that we do not process applicationssubmittedvia 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 withdifferent backgroundsand experiences, to bring together multiple views to foster our business successAccording to our employee survey, respecting diversity is ata high levelin our work community. You are welcome to join Finnair as your authentic self.