Requirements: English
Company: WhatJobs
Region: Ghent , Flanders
What you do
We are seeking for a highly skilled Principal Data Domain Architect to join our team and lead the design, development, and governance of a robust and scalable data architecture.
In this role, you will drive the creation of enterprise-level data models, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and alignment with organizational goals.
As a strategic leader you''ll hold a strategic and leadership role, overseeing the organization''s data architecture and ensuring it supports long-term goals.
Key responsibilities
Enterprise Data Strategy Development:
- Define and lead the organization''s data architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and goals.
- Develop a technical roadmap to ensure the target architecture is aligned with Volvo design & principles.
Data Architecture Design & Governance:
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing data architecture frameworks.
- Implement governance processes delivered by our Data Governance & Data Management organization, to ensure data quality, consistency, and compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Data Modeling & Integration:
- Lead the design of physical data models, aligned with the conceptual & logical models provided by the Business Information Architects.
- Ensure seamless integration of data from multiple sources, enabling accurate, real-time decision-making and analytics.
Technology Evaluation & Innovation: Implement new technologies, set by the central platform organization. Lead initiatives to adopt this new technology to improve the datacapabilities for Service Market Logistics
Mentoring & Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to data architects, engineers, and modelers. Mentor team members to develop their skills and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams in defining data architecture standards, driving alignment across different departments, including data engineering, analytics, and application development teams.
Strategic Leader: Drives business transformation through data, shaping the organization''s future by ensuring that its data assets are fully optimized to support long-term growth and innovation.
In short
- Develop and maintain domain architecture strategies, standards, and guidelines
- Support and finalize the migration of analytics solutions to the Unified Data Platform
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Design and implement scalable and secure architectural solutions that meet business needs
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle
- Conduct architectural reviews and ensure compliance with best practices and standards
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation
What you bring to the team
- Several years of experience as a Data Architect in Azure
- Experienced with Azure Data Factory
- Experienced with Azure Synapse Analytics
- Experienced with Azure Databricks
- Experienced with Azure Data Lake
- Passion about defining and designing end-to-end scalable data solutions, ensuring they align with enterprise architecture and industry standards
- You can think and act strategically, operate tactically, and implement change effectively
- You can act as a leader and are emphatic and enthusiast
- You are experienced with stakeholder management
- You can communicate in English and preferably Dutch (big plus)
- You can work in the region of Ghent