Data Architect - Brussels

Project overview

IT-Planet is the HR specialist for flexible and temporary staffing in IT. We manage IT projects for various top 100 clients throughout Flanders and Brussels in the following IT domains: Application Development, Infrastructure Services & Software Testing. With 15 years of experience, we can perfectly meet your individual needs. With us, you can and may grow and learn, in short, flourish in your job. Sounds good? We currently have 180 great colleagues on projects. To further strengthen our team, we are currently looking for a Data Architect (m/f/x) to work with our client in Brussels.

Function

To anchor architectural knowledge and guide this evolution, we are looking for an experienced Data (Cloud) Solution Architect. The architect is responsible for the technical coherence and technical guidelines within the ecosystem of modern data and analytics platforms. The function ensures that EDP, data science, and AI capabilities and the modernization of the data warehouse develop into one secure, reusable, and manageable whole, rather than separate technological environments.

• This position can be filled with either a permanent contract (employee status) or a freelance contract
• Duration: Long term
• Region: Brussels
• Full time

Responsibilities

Profile

What's included

You will be compensated according to your tasks, knowledge, and competencies. We carefully craft a motivating salary package including an attractive fringe benefits package with group and hospitalization insurance, meal vouchers, eco-cheques, an annual budget for purchasing personal IT equipment, etc. We also offer a company car with a fuel or charging card.

What really matters

You and your personal wishes and needs are central to us. Through personal follow-up and contact, we strive together for your desired career. We offer you the growth opportunities and challenges you aspire to, and guide you with a professional training and development policy. We consider work-life balance important; in this context, we also gladly offer flexibility. Additionally, we organize many great events annually to which you are always invited! We also attend some festivals as a sponsor each year.

All of the above, and much more, ensures that we win the Great Place to Work award year after year!

Freelance? Don't hesitate to contact us for a tailor-made proposal. And yes, even as a freelancer, you can enjoy training and events through IT-Planet!

• Platform Architecture
• Design and maintain coherent target and transition architectures for AWS, EDP, data science and AI platforms, the Enterprise Data Warehouse, and the necessary on-premises integrations
• Define reusable architecture patterns for compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, environments, workspaces, and platform services
• Evaluate new initiatives and technologies, including Amazon SageMaker, S3, Redshift, and related AWS services, and determine how they can be integrated into the broader CM platform landscape
• Prevent unnecessary duplication of platforms by distinguishing between business capabilities and reusable technical platform capabilities
• Modern Data Architecture and EDWH Modernization
• Drive the evolution of classic data warehousing technologies towards cloud-native and mesh-based implementations, using data products and clear data contracts
• Define architecture patterns for source-aligned and consumer-aligned data products, data ingestion, CDC, ETL/ELT, orchestration, semantic models, metadata, cataloging, and data lineage
• Guide phased and hybrid migrations, including the coexistence of on-premises and cloud components, continuity, rollback, and decommissioning
• Evaluate modernization opportunities for legacy components and integration patterns, including BODS, Oracle GoldenGate/CDC, dbt, and modern orchestration technologies
• Platform Engineering and Automation
• Define standards for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and environment management for infrastructure, data engineering, MLOps, and ML engineering
• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to develop reusable templates and automated provisioning for accounts, workspaces, storage, compute, roles, policies, pipelines, logging, and monitoring
• Enable self-service for teams while maintaining central architectural, security, and operational guidelines
• Coach teams in DevOps, DataOps, MLOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and FinOps practices
• Security, Risk, and Compliance by Design
• Design security patterns for sensitive health and member data, including IAM, RBAC, RLS, CLS, separation of duties, encryption, secrets management, auditability, and traceability
• Ensure solutions comply with CM standards and applicable privacy, security, risk, legal, data retention, and regulatory compliance requirements
• Define secure hybrid connectivity patterns between AWS, on-premises environments, Direct Connect, firewalls, and network zones
• Architecture Governance and Collaboration
• Act as a technical liaison between Data & Analytics, Galileo/infrastructure, network, security, risk, legal, enterprise architecture, and the various business domains
• Coach platform engineers, data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers, ensuring implementations align with approved architectural principles
• Document architectural decisions through architecture models, standards, reference architectures, roadmaps, and Architecture Decision Records
• Support architecture reviews, assessments, vendor evaluations, incident analyses, and root cause investigations
• Reliability, Monitoring, and Cost Management
• Define requirements for monitoring, data quality, performance, availability, capacity, and cost management across the entire platform
• Identify opportunities to improve scalability, resilience, manageability, and cost transparency through tagging, chargeback/showback, and FinOps practices
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in data, cloud, or platform engineering
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a solution or platform architecture role
• Demonstrable experience designing Data & Analytics platforms on AWS and integrations with on-premises environments
• Thorough knowledge of AWS architecture, preferably with IAM, VPC/networking, S3, Redshift, SageMaker, monitoring, and security services
• Experience with data mesh, data products, modern data stacks, data warehouses, data lakes/lakehouses, metadata, cataloging, and data lineage
• Knowledge of data ingestion, CDC, ETL/ELT, and orchestration patterns
• Experience with Oracle GoldenGate, BODS, dbt, or similar technologies is a plus
• Extensive knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD
• Practical experience with Terraform or similar tooling is highly recommended
• Good understanding of DevOps, DataOps, MLOps, SRE, and FinOps principles within enterprise data environments
• Experience designing security and access control solutions for sensitive data and regulated environments
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into phased target architectures, actionable roadmaps, and concrete engineering standards
• Strong skills in stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, coaching, problem-solving, and communication
• A master's degree in computer science, IT, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Languages
• Dutch or French as a native language
• Passive knowledge of the other national language
• Professional knowledge of English

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, BE
• Languages: Dutch, French, English