Advisor Data Govern. & AI Architecture

Overview of the company

We, OMV Petrom Global Solutions, are proud members of the OMV IT community. OMV IT delivers industry best practice solutions which enable our business success in the Energy Production and Distribution industry. It is our vision to "Enable Success and Transformation!" and our mission to address this goal with the right capabilities, at the right time, with the right mindset.We are at the core of user experience on both sides of the isle: business and our consumer market. We challenge the status-quo. We are partnering with business experts to shape the future service portfolio of our digital tools. Thus, we have a key role in OMV’s Digital Transformation. Together, we are on a never-ending quest to test the edge of what is possible. We strongly believe each end every IT employee makes a difference in that respect.

Your tasks

• Plan, design, and steer the group-wide Data & AI Strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, enterprise architecture, and digital transformation priorities.
• Define and maintain target-state Data & AI architectures, reference models, and blueprints for platforms, analytics, AI/ML, and cross-domain data solutions.
• Evaluate, recommend, and integrate emerging technologies, methodologies, and best practices in data management, advanced analytics, and AI.
• Lead the definition of data and information lifecycle management (ILM) principles in collaboration with GDPR and Information Security functions.
• Establish, enforce, and continuously enhance group-wide guidelines, principles, and standards for data architecture, data quality, metadata, lifecycle management, and integration processes.
• Develop and govern the Data & AI governance framework, methodologies (e.g., DAMA), and supporting tools, ensuring their adoption across the organization.
• Identify, communicate, and manage data and AI-related risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory, GDPR, and internal policies.
• Collaborate with Information Security to enforce protective measures, ensuring secure data handling, access control, and resilience.
• Define and govern data domain models, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models across domains.
• Govern the definition, implementation, and operations of data catalogues, metadata management tools, and AI model registries.
• Advise on and support the adoption of solutions enabling advanced analytics, AI/ML, BI, and automation, ensuring alignment with architectural principles
• Act as a key interface between Business, IT, and Data functions, translating strategic and operational needs into concrete architectural roadmaps and solutions
• Advise Business and IT Senior Management on the architectural implications of data-driven use cases and emerging opportunities

Your skills

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Technical Studies, Business Administration, Project Management, Computer Science, Business Informatics or related field
• Relevant professional skills: >12 years
• More than 12 years in IT area: 5+ years of direct experience in IT Data & AI Governance, including data & AI domain frameworks, metadata management, data quality standards, and compliance, is essential
• Demonstrated expertise in data governance frameworks (e.g. DAMA), metadata management, data catalogues, lineage and data quality standards
• Excellent knowledge of AI/ML concepts, data engineering principles, and state‑of‑the‑art analytical platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure ML, Synapse, optionally Power BI) as well as modern patterns (e.g., lakehouse, retrieval‑augmented generation)
• Excellent knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of systems, peripheral devices, and the most sophisticated programming techniques (e.g. Dynamic Programming, Data Structures, AI/ML, Concurrency and parallelism, etc.)
• Proven ability to design, integrate, and govern complex data and AI architectures in large-scale, international environments
• Advanced understanding of compliance, security, and data protection standards (including GDPR) and Responsible AI practices (e.g., EU AI Act)
• Fluent English; German/Romanian language skills beneficial

Location

Bucharest

What OMV Petrom can offer

• Long weekend plans are always welcome - on Friday, our office hours end at 14.00.
• You can rely on a health insurance that covers medical treatment in a variety of private medical clinics.
• You can work from home, if the work activity allows.
• The number of your days off increase according to your work experience so that you'll enjoy more free time.
• We aim to make your vacation days happier, by paying each vacation day double.
• Are you a top performer? Your work can be rewarded each three months based on performance results.
• Additional days off and various financial support for different events like marriage, child birth, etc.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning and a variety of development programs.
• Do you prefer cars or bikes? We have free private covered parking.