Professor in Cloud Data Engineering & Industry Project Studio

OPIT - Open Institute of Technology is an EU-accredited higher education institution providing online, competence-based degrees in computer science and related fields. The Professor in Cloud Data Engineering & Industry Project Studio will teach MSc courses covering cloud data engineering, industry project delivery, architectural decision-making, and the integration of cloud, DevOps, data engineering, AI, security, reliability, and governance.

Responsibilities:

• Data modelling for relational and NoSQL systems
• Streaming ingestion and change data capture (CDC)
• Warehousing and lakehouse patterns for analytical and operational workloads
• Building ML-ready data pipelines
• Data quality enforcement, governance and lineage controls
• Orchestration, monitoring and lifecycle management of cloud data platforms across batch and real-time processing
• Team-based delivery of complex, open-ended technical projects across the full project lifecycle
• Architectural decision-making, including the evaluation and challenge of proposed designs
• Trade-off analysis across scalability, performance, cost, risk and sustainability
• Consulting-style documentation, including architecture decision records and cost reviews
• Integration of cloud platforms, DevOps, data engineering, AI components, security, reliability and governance within a single solution
• Preparation and delivery of solution presentations to a review panel
• Professional working practice: stakeholder communication, planning and production discipline

Requirements:

• Excellent spoken and written English (C1+)
• Previous teaching experience
• Ph.D. degree / Professor status
• Passion for teaching
• Accuracy, punctuality, and excellent organizational skills
• Official certifications
• Relevant professional experience
• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
• AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate