Solution Data Architect Position

Start Date: 18/08/2025

End Date: 31/07/2026

Location: Brussel + Remote
 

Mission Description:

The role involves contributing to the strategic improvement of data governance within the enterprise through the EDM program. The IT department supports this strategy with its data platform and the setup of MDM and data catalog tooling. Additionally, the role supports the strategic objective of becoming a digital supervisor by enabling digital transformation in the prudential supervision domain. This is achieved through modern cloud technology, with decisions made on whether to conduct a complete cloud-native rewrite or a more limited refabric of applications.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with enterprise architects, product managers, product owners, project teams, and IT teams to deliver solution architectures according to architecture standards and frameworks.
• Propose solutions and deliver high-level architecture documents and detailed architecture specifications.
• Gain knowledge of business domains such as data governance, statistics, studies, management of micro data, and prudential supervision.
• Develop a network of contacts within the IT department.
• Join project or product teams as a team member.
• Provide project managers and product owners with concrete solution architecture.
• Ensure all proposed solutions align with reference architecture, encompassing business and IT strategy.
• Monitor implementation of proposed solutions and address possible deviations.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Understanding of enterprise data management concepts, including Enterprise Data Management, Master Data Management patterns, and Data-mesh architecture.
• Understanding of application design concepts, including application-centric vs. data-centric architectures.
• Experience with Azure components such as Azure Fabric, Data Factory, Datalake Storage, Azure Keyvault, Azure Container Applications, Azure SQL, etc.
• Experience with the Databricks environment and the Delta Lake framework.
• Experience in similar domains for companies of comparable size, preferably in the financial sector, is a plus.

Desired Skills and Certifications:

• Proficiency in Archimate, Cloud technologies, Data & Services Architecture, Databricks, Enterprise Architecture Expertise, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure.

Language Proficiency:

• Dutch or French
• English