Architect of Intelligence - Data Platforms & AI Systems

Keyrus; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mobility budget

Car/charging budget

Net allowances (daily/monthly)

Eco vouchers

Hospitalisation insurance

Group insurance

Bonus scheme

Job summary

Keyrus is seeking an experienced Data Architect to shape data foundations for intelligent enterprises in Belgium. You will design scalable, future-proof data architectures and guide strategic technology decisions across Azure and AWS.

You will work with clients to translate business needs into practical data solutions, mentor delivery teams, and contribute to reference architectures while expanding your expertise in data governance and metadata management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data and analytics, including 3+ years as Data Architect or Solution Architect.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures from strategy to implementation.
• Strong data modelling expertise from conceptual to physical design.
• Experience with real-time or event-driven data integration.
• Solid understanding of data governance, MDM, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proficiency in Dutch and English; French is a strong asset.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state data architectures across platforms, integration, modelling and consumption layers; establish the roadmap.
• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models supporting analytics, reporting and operational use cases.
• Architect modern cloud data platforms on Azure and/or AWS (lakehouse, real-time integration, streaming, hybrid).
• Evaluate key architectural decisions and balance trade-offs (build vs buy, batch vs streaming, centralized vs federated).
• Advise clients with business and IT stakeholders, translating ambitions into scalable solutions.
• Contribute to solution design, client workshops, and RFP responses with sales and practice teams.
• Guide delivery teams by establishing standards and ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Mentor consultants and engineers within the Belgian practice.
• Contribute to evolving reference architectures, methodologies and accelerators.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

ETL/ELT

Cloud platforms

Governance & metadata

SQL/Python

Stakeholder management

Dutch & English

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT/CS

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

SAS Viya

dbt

Kafka

Confluent

Collibra

Power BI

Tableau

Python

SQL

Job description

Keyrus is seeking an experienced Data Architect to shape data foundations for intelligent enterprises in Belgium. You will design scalable, future-proof data architectures and guide strategic technology decisions across Azure and AWS.

You will work with clients to translate business needs into practical data solutions, mentor delivery teams, and contribute to reference architectures while expanding your expertise in data governance and metadata management.