Job Description
The Senior Data Architect will support this transition by helping define and implement architectural frameworks, methodologies, and best practices. The architect will work closely with the current Data Architect, to challenge and refine technical solutions and align them with both IS goals and Business Unit (BU) needs.
Primary Tasks and responsibilities:
- Confirm and articulate the data architecture vision and roadmap
- Provide technical guidance on data modeling within data products
- Define strategies for redesigning and migrating solutions from legacy systems to the new data platform
- Establish a methodology to avoid duplication across data products as the amount of data products increases.
- Develop standards for handling master data, reference data, and mappings
- Help implement templates for security within and across data products (development & end-user access), in accordance with existing IT Security Guidelines & requirements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (IS, BU’s, external partners)
- Support and challenge the current Data Architect in strategic discussions.
Technical profile requirements:
- Proven experience in data architecture in large-scale environments, preferably in the manufacturing sector (Required)
- Strong knowledge of Databricks and DBT, or proven previous experience with DWH Tooling (Required)
- Experience with building data architectures that enable both BI and AI/ML use cases, and can support event-driven, (micro-)batch and stream workloads
- Experience with extracting SAP data, preferably both with SAP BW and non-BW solutions
- Experience with data ingestion tools (Data Factory or similar)
- Deep understanding of data modeling, data governance, and enterprise-grade security requirements
- Proven track record with data platform migrations and legacy transitions
- Ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Agile mindset, aiming to build to scale but willing to fail fast
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