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