Architect – Data Governance

Role Description:

• Role Category: Architect - Expert
• Job Title: Function Architect for Data Hub and Data Governance
• Start Date: 11/08/2025
• End Date: 31/07/2026

Mission Context:

The IT Architect is responsible for ensuring the coherence and sustainability of overall IT solutions and systems in alignment with enterprise strategy and technological evolution. This role involves defining and validating solution architecture within the domain of responsibility and ensuring its implementation. The focus is on the Data Hub Tribe, with key activities including:

1. Cloud migration of current applications from data centers to a private cloud.
2. Solution architecture for new projects.
3. Contribution to enterprise architecture targets and the architecture roadmap for a new data strategy.

Function Description:

Key Activities:

• Deliver solution architecture files during quarterly agile planning with product owners, infrastructure architects, and security architects, under the supervision of the tribe lead architect. Submit these files to the architecture committee for validation.
• Participate in and advise on studies, projects, and assets concerning the evolution of architecture, in line with enterprise strategy.
• Ensure architectural efficiency and impact through active stakeholder management.

Language Requirements:

• Dutch: Good command of French or Dutch
• French: Good command of French or Dutch
• English: Key requirement as it is the primary working language

Education:

• Solid IT background

Certification:

• Not applicable; relevant experience is more important

Telework Expectation:

• 50% on-site and 50% homeworking

Required Experience / Knowledge:

• At least 6 years of relevant experience in IT solution architecture
• Successful experience in solution architecture, ideally in a data-related context
• Experience in large projects with intermediate deliveries and transition architectures
• Experience with architectural modeling and application architecture analysis and definition

Preferable Technical Experience:

• Cloud experience with any provider
• Experience in application migration (e.g., from one data center to another)
• Experience in companies where security and resilience are structural concerns

Business Experience:

• Experience in large companies and/or financial service companies is preferable

Soft Skills:

• Change advocate: Identifies possibilities for continuous improvement and mobilizes others to support changes.
• Decision-making: Evaluates impacts of problems or opportunities and makes timely choices based on available options.
• Initiative: Takes initiative to identify and tackle obstacles, problems, and opportunities.
• Innovation: Applies creative thinking to improve organizational performance and integrates innovations to generate ROI.