Azure Data Architect

We are seeking 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.

Skills:

• Several years of experience as an Azure Data Architect
• You have knowledge of Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, ..
• You can define and design 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, managing change priorities in a business-focused, fact-based, and collaborative way to achieve real impact
• You are emphatic & enthusiast
• You are an excellent communicator who speaks fluently English (Dutch is an advantage)
• You can work on site in the region of Ghent as a freelancer