Enterprise Data Architect

Position: Enterprise Data Architect

Location: Brussels

Start Date: ASAP

End Date: 31/12/2025, with an option for extension

Language Requirements: Dutch and/or French, plus English

Application Deadline: 22/09/2025

Role Overview:

The Enterprise Data Architect is responsible for aligning business strategy with technology infrastructure, ensuring that IT systems, processes, and data support organizational goals. This role involves designing and maintaining the enterprise architecture framework, guiding digital transformation, and overseeing enterprise data architecture to ensure data is treated as a strategic asset.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Strategy:
  • Participate in strategic discussions at the company level.
  • Maintain a clear overview of business units, their functions, and processes.
  • Estimate the impact of possible strategic decisions on the organization, processes, and technology.
• Architecture Strategy & Governance:
  • Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps.
  • Ensure architectural alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
  • Design and maintain the overall application landscape and map these applications with their business functionalities.
  • Ensure the design of an integration framework through which data flows between these applications.
• Solution Design & Integration:
  • Design scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders.
  • Oversee integration of systems across business units and platforms.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
• Enterprise Data Architecture:
  • Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture roadmap aligned with business and IT strategies.
  • Establish data standards, principles, and best practices for modeling, integration, master data management, and governance.
• Integration & Interoperability:
  • Design data integration patterns (ETL/ELT, APIs, Service bus, streaming) for on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Enable interoperability between transactional and operational systems, as well as analytics systems (data warehouse, data lake, etc.).
• Lifecycle Management:
  • Manage the lifecycle of applications, platforms, and infrastructure.
  • Define modernization and cloud migration strategies.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Translate business needs into architectural requirements and technical solutions.
  • Communicate architectural decisions and their impact clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Governance & Compliance:
  • Identify architectural risks and propose mitigation strategies.
  • Ensure compliance with data protection, cybersecurity, and industry standards.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Education:
  • Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience:
  • 10+ years in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise architecture roles.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and data integration.
  • Experience with Azure and Microsoft-related data technologies (Azure Synapse, data lake storage, Fabric).
  • Experience with integration technologies in Azure like Logic Apps, Azure Functions, etc.
• Soft Skills:
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
  • Strategic thinking with hands-on problem-solving ability.
  • Ability to integrate into an organization and identify skills and characters to outline governance models.