Data Architect

Sloka IT Solutions; Brussel; Sur place; EUR 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Sloka IT Solutions seeks a highly experienced Senior Solution Architect to define and lead data-centric architecture across on-premises and cloud environments. You will drive strategic integration, hosting, building, and maintaining complex information systems with a focus on resilience and real-time requirements.

You will mentor development teams, collaborate with business and IT stakeholders, explore new technologies, and evangelise the value of the data platform to enable strategic

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as senior IT software engineer/architect.
• Significant experience in big data and modern technology stacks for on-premises and cloud-based ecosystems.
• Experience in delivering cross-functional multi-platform designs for mission-critical contexts (real-time & high resilience).
• Strong communication with peers, business, and senior leaders.

Responsabilités

• Define the strategy of integrating, hosting, building, and maintaining various information systems using modern data architecture patterns.
• Deliver best practices and guidelines via architecture and design documentation and products.
• Assess current architectures and work with IT stakeholders to recommend solutions.
• Provide supervision and guidance to development teams to ensure consistency.
• Continuously research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed.
• Engage with stakeholders across teams to discuss data platform technology matters for business and technical audiences.
• Act as Technology partner for Business when exploring new opportunities where data platforms add value.
• Drive new opportunities from a technical perspective from ideation to product delivery.
• Evangelise and demonstrate the opportunities of adopting new technology for the AIR platform.

Connaissances

Senior IT architect

Big data

Cloud platforms

Cross-functional design

DevOps / CI/CD

Communication

Formation

TOGAF certification

Outils

TOGAF

IAF

Description du poste

• 10+ years of experience as a senior IT software engineer/architect
• Significant experience in big data and modern technology stacks for on-premises and cloud-based ecosystems
• Experience in delivering cross-functional multi-platform designs, to be used in mission-critical contexts (real-time criticality & high resilience)

Job Description:

As an expert solution architect, you will :

• Define the strategy of integrating, hosting, building, and maintaining various information systems using modern data architecture patterns.
• Be responsible for best practices and guidelines by delivering high-quality architecture & design documentation and products
• Assess the systems’ architecture currently in place and work with various IT stakeholders to recommend solutions
• Provide supervision and guidance to development teams to aim for consistency in practices
• Continually research the current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed
• Engage with various stakeholders regarding data platform technology matters (communicate to both business and technical audience) across multiple teams and organizations
• Act as Technology (sparring) partner for Business when exploring potential new Business Opportunities where the data platform is centric and bringing added value.
• Drive new opportunities from a technical perspective but aligned with the business requirements, from the initial ideation / Proof of Concept stage, through to supporting the product delivery.
• Be able to evangelise and present the opportunities created by the "to be" adopted technology for the AIR platform, as well as being able to understand and demonstrate the risks that it brings.

Requested profile:

• 10+ years of experience as senior IT software engineer/architect
• Significant experience in big data and modern technology stacks for on-premises and cloud-based ecosystems
• Experience in delivering cross-functional multi-platform designs, to be used in mission-critical contexts (real-time criticality & high resilience)
• A strong communicator with equally strong interpersonal skills, among peers, business and senior leaders within the organization, as well as the technical / development community both inside and outside the organization.
• Conceptual and creative: you are able to recognize common patterns or generic aspects in elements that seem unrelated at first sight, and to transpose existing solutions in a creative fashion to new situations.
• Proven experience in effectively delegating tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control
• Experience of agile practices and methods, especially DevOps, test automation and continuous delivery pipeline
• Conceptual and creative: you are able to recognize common patterns or generic aspects in elements that seem unrelated at first sight, and to transpose existing solutions in a creative fashion to new situations.
• A strong problem-solver: you demonstrate strong analytical skills (e.g. breaking up & structuring complex problems into manageable pieces), you can apply them to problems spanning across multiple architectural domains, you strive for a pragmatic approach (80/20 rule), and you focus on tangible and actionable results.
• Knowledgeable about data analytics platforms, cloud solutions, AI, APIs, and passionate about new technology market trends,
• Have the capability to coach and mentor junior profiles in the AIR tribe to get the best out of them.
• Knowledge of post-trade market infrastructures (e.g. CSD), knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, IAF) and relevant experience with Agile operating models and frameworks are extra assets.