Data Solutions Architect — Cloud Data & Real-Time AI

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

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.