Data Model Architect

Overview

Chanel is an independent, globally recognised French luxury house renowned for haute couture, ready-to-wear, accessories, fragrances and beauty. As an employer, the brand combines artisanal craftsmanship and creative innovation with large-scale international operations, investing in digital transformation and rigorous standards across product, retail and corporate functions.

Role & Responsibilities

• Define, design and maintain conceptual, logical and physical enterprise data models that support analytics, reporting and operational systems across the organisation.
• Establish and enforce data modelling standards, naming conventions and reusable patterns to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Collaborate with data architects, data engineers, BI teams and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust data structures.
• Design master data and reference models to underpin MDM initiatives and ensure data consistency across domains (product, customer, sales, inventory).
• Support implementation of data lineage, metadata management and model versioning to enable traceability and auditability.
• Validate and optimise models for performance and integration with ETL/data pipelines and downstream analytical platforms.
• Provide governance, training and documentation for modelling best practices and review third‑party model proposals.
• Participate in roadmap planning for data architecture evolution, including cloud migration and modernisation of data platforms.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Statistics or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven track record as a data modeller or data architect with significant responsibility for enterprise-scale models.
• Deep understanding of data modelling methodologies (conceptual, logical, physical) and domain modelling.
• Experience implementing data modelling standards and working within data governance frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to bridge technical and business audiences.
• Fluency with database technologies and demonstrated ability to validate models in production environments.

Skills

Experience

Significant experience (typically 5+ years) in enterprise data modelling or data architecture, ideally within retail, luxury goods, or consumer-facing organisations, with demonstrable delivery of models that support analytics, MDM and reporting at scale.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Culture

Chanel combines a heritage-driven creative culture with exacting professional standards; teams operate in a collaborative, international environment where craftsmanship, discretion and innovation are valued. The organisation emphasises cross-functional partnership as it modernises data capabilities to support business and creative decision-making.