Centric - Azure Data Architect

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