Data Solutions Architect

Yonderland; Antwerpen; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Meal vouchers

Group insurance

Hospitalisation insurance

Additional holidays

Staff discount

Job summary

Yonderland, a European outdoor retail group, seeks a Data Solutions Architect to lead the design of its data platform on AWS. You will own architecture, cloud and automation, with hands-on coding and real engineering work.

Report to Head of Data & AI, and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure data solutions. The role requires senior experience with data platforms, Terraform, Snowflake, dbt and Airflow, plus Python and real-time processing capabilities.

Qualifications

• Senior experienced architect of data platforms in production.
• Hands-on engineering background with current coding.
• Deep AWS architecture experience; Azure or GCP noted as equivalent considered.
• Production-level Python.
• Experience with Spark or Flink for high-volume processing.
• Terraform as IaC is required.
• Integration architecture: APIs, events, CDC.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the data platform and its processing layers from ingestion to consumption.
• Define design, build, deploy and automate standards for the data function.
• Architect high-volume, parallel, real-time workloads.
• Decide data movement between operational and analytical systems with event-based patterns.
• Own cloud architecture and IaC for the data function on AWS.
• Analyze requirements and produce end-to-end design before development.
• Act as design authority and document architectural decisions.
• Produce artefacts: design docs, data-flow diagrams, integration blueprints, risk assessments.
• Design distributed processing and partitioning for scaling beyond single-node SQL.
• Define integration patterns and contracts (APIs, events, CDC).
• Own AWS cloud architecture, scale, operation and cost management.
• Automate platform with Terraform and CI/CD, with deployment/rollback procedures.
• Design AI/integration use cases and real-time decisioning where applicable.

Skills

Senior data architect

Hands-on engineering

Python

Terraform

Spark/Flink

SQL & data modelling

Security & governance

AWS

APIs/CDC patterns

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Job description

We are convinced that outside is exciting, relaxing, and inspiring. It's versatile, for some it is a place to relax, for others it is the ultimate challenge. A place to enjoy and where big and small moments come together. It's a place to be discovered or recognized. But the outdoors can also be treacherous and unpredictable. Weather and terrain can surprise you. Our mission is to enable all people to spend inspiring and epic moments outside.

Yonderland is a European group of premium brands and retail concepts focused on outdoors. Including A.S. Adventure, Juttu, Bever, Cotswold, Snow+Rock, Runnersneed and Ayacucho. Yonderland runs over 190 shops in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Great-Britain and The Netherlands and resides in Belgium.

Yonderland runs its data platform on AWS, with Snowflake, dbt and Airflow above it and a large operational database estate underneath. As our Data Solutions Architect, you will lead the design of all of it, acting as the technical reference for the data function on architecture, cloud and automation. Your work will run from the design of new implementations and integration patterns between systems, through how data is processed at volume, to how the platforms themselves are built, deployed and automated - with security, compliance and data quality built into every design. This is a hands-on role: architecture ownership paired with real engineering work, and current coding experience is required. You report to the Head of Data & AI.

You will

• Own the architecture of the data platform, its integrations and its processing layers, from ingestion through to consumption.
• Define how data solutions are designed, built, deployed and automated, and apply that standard across the data function.
• Architect for high-volume, parallel and real-time processing for the workloads that need it.
• Decide how data moves between operational and analytical systems, using event-based and contract-driven integration patterns.
• Own cloud architecture and infrastructure-as-code practice for everything the data function runs.
• Analyze requirements, test the assumptions behind them, and produce the end-to-end design before development starts.
• Act as design authority, making the key architectural calls, documenting them, and answering the technical questions engineering teams bring.
• Produce artefacts teams can build from - solution designs, trade-off analyses, data-flow diagrams, integration blueprints and risk assessments.
• Design distributed processing - partitioning, state handling and performance - for workloads that outgrow single-node and pure-SQL approaches.
• Define the integration patterns - APIs, events, streaming and change data capture - and the contracts that keep them stable.
• Own cloud architecture on AWS, deciding how data services are structured, scaled, operated and costed.
• Automate the platform using Terraform for infrastructure and CI/CD for delivery, with defined deployment and rollback procedures.
• Design specialized AI and integration use cases, including AI-assisted workflows and real-time decisioning, and judge where they apply.

You have

• Senior experience architecting data platforms that run at high volume in production.
• A track record of defining standards that other engineers went on to adopt.
• A hands-on engineering background, with coding experience that is current.
• Deep, hands-on architecture and operating experience on AWS (equivalent depth on Azure or GCP considered).
• Production-level Python.
• Experience with a high-volume parallel processing engine such as Spark or Flink, including partitioning, state handling and performance tuning.
• Terraform experience is required, since infrastructure across the data function is managed as code.
• Integration architecture experience - APIs, events, streaming, contracts and change data capture between operational and analytical systems.
• Experience with a modern data platform stack: a cloud warehouse such as Snowflake, a transformation tool such as dbt, an orchestrator such as Airflow, plus strong SQL and data modelling.
• Ability to build security, governance and data quality requirements into architecture at design time.

What's in it for you?

• A versatile position with pronounced responsibility and variety in a strongly growing and innovative market leader, operating internationally with headquarters in Hoboken (Antwerp) and offices in the Netherlands and the UK.
• The IT organisation is a driving force to support the strong growth and you will help shape it.
• An open corporate culture where you can be yourself.
• A competitive gross monthly salary in proportion to your experience, including the possibility of a company car, supplemented by fringe benefits such as meal vouchers, group and hospitalisation insurance, additional holidays, and staff discount.
• Adventurous colleagues in an international and diverse team.
• The opportunity to participate in our bootcamps (showers available) and various team events twice a week during the lunch break.

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of age, background, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or belief. Your talent is what matters most.