Professional qualifications Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Engineering or a related field.
Proven experience as a Data Architect or in a similar role focused on enterprise data architecture, data modelling, and platform integration.
Solid understanding of modern data architecture patterns, including data Lakehouse, event-driven architectures, and API-based data access.
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, particularly SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset toward resolving technical debt and ensuring data quality.
Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with cross-functional technical and business teams.
Role specific experience Extensive experience designing and maintaining common data models across large-scale enterprise systems (e.g., submissions, cases, products).
Experience implementing data governance frameworks, retention policies, and classification schemes.
Strong background in API design and the definition of clear and reusable API contracts between systems.
Proven experience integrating data systems with external platforms, data hubs, and pipelines.
Experience with testing frameworks for data, including generating and managing synthetic or representative test data.
Demonstrated ability to assess, document, and resolve technical debt in data pipelines and data models.
Experience with metadata management, data cataloguing tools, and improving data discoverability and reusability.
Data Architecture & Governance
• Designs scalable and reusable data architectures to support transversal use across multiple domains and systems.
• Leads the definition and standardization of enterprise-wide common data models (submissions, cases, products, etc.).
Topic Description
• Develops and enforces data governance policies to support consistent, high-quality, and compliant data usage.
• Oversees the documentation of data models and metadata to ensure transparency, alignment, and maintainability.
• Oversees the selection of data storage solutions and ensures appropriate means are selected based on the data categorization.
Data Quality, Classification & Retention
• Establishes data quality controls, validation frameworks, and monitoring mechanisms across key datasets.
• Defines and implements data classification standards and integrates them into data cataloguing solutions.
• Supports the implementation and enforcement of data retention and lifecycle policies in alignment with regulatory and business needs.
API Design & Integration
• Defines API contracts and facilitates alignment between producers and consumers of data services.
• Ensures APIs reflect well-defined and reusable data models, enabling efficient integration across teams and systems.
• Leads integration efforts with enterprise data platforms, ensuring data flows are secure, traceable, and optimised.
Testing, Documentation & Support
• Designs test data strategies for validating data pipelines and ensuring robustness of data-dependent applications.
• Supports, suggests and applies methods for the creation of synthetic data for testing purposes.
• Ensures technical documentation of data models, data flows, and integration points is maintained and accessible.
• Supports platform teams and domain owners by advising on best practices in using shared data assets and APIs.
Technical Design and Implementation
• Translates business and platform needs into scalable, secure, and maintainable data architecture designs.
• Supports resolution of legacy data issues, including schema harmonization, normalization, and versioning.
• Ensures alignment between data design and overall platform architecture, performance goals, and scalability needs.
Security, Compliance & Risk Management
• Ensures data solutions adhere to security and compliance standards, including data privacy, access control, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborates with data protection and legal teams to ensure the architecture supports compliance-by-design principles.
Agile Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
• Actively participates in SAFe Agile ceremonies, supporting backlog refinement, planning, and reviews.
• Works with cross-functional teams including developers, analysts, and product owners to deliver fit-for-purpose data solutions and enforce established principles and governance.
Topic Description
• Continuously improves data architecture in response to feedback, evolving requirements, and new technology opportunities.
Level: Senior
Delivery mode: Hybrid 20 days onsite (Amsterdam) and 200 days remote from Europe
only EU Citizens can apply
we will need a detailed Europass CV
AlmavivA de Belgique is a Belgian IT company, a branch of the AlmavivA Group , created purposely to satisfy the needs of customers in Belgium, Luxembourg and the entire EU.
The AlmavivA group is the largest supplier of Information & Communication Technology in Italy, with years of experience and an in-depth understanding of the public and private sector markets.
The Group is currently undergoing major international expansion and is already a global operation: it has 43 offices in Italy and 23 abroad, and employs 45,000 people - 6,000 in Italy and 39,000 overseas. It has a significant presence in Brazil, and is also operational in the United States, China, Colombia, Tunisia, Romania and Brussels, the nerve centre of the EU.
The objective of AlmavivA de Belgique is to bring the experience, skills, abilities and resources of the AlmavivA Group in a European context, to resolve complex IT challenges through technological innovation and proven standards of quality.
AlmavivA's professionals work to guarantee and maintain our customers' mission-critical operations, reinforcing support for end users and optimising corporate applications and IT infrastructure.
Our mission is to bring technological innovation to the field of software development and IT infrastructure management, taking advantage of the experience our company has acquired through its extraordinary global experience.
The vision of AlmavivA de Belgique is to generate ideas that rapidly lead to simple and intuitive business-driven solutions that help to realize our customers' potential. The professionals who work within the Group share our vision which aims to stimulate and reinforce the ability of every individual to express, create, develop and cooperate, offering a unique model of "shared intelligence".
