Senior Data Architect - Remote, Cloud & Governance

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS Group; Brussel Hoofdstad; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS (ED) is seeking a Data Architect with expert-level English to work remotely, collaborating with a major client’s IT team on site as needed. The candidate will join a team focused on designing data strategy, governance, and scalable data platforms across cloud and hybrid environments.

The role requires 12+ years of enterprise data architecture experience, strong SQL/ETL skills, and proficiency with modern data tools and platforms such as Collibra, Azure Purview, Databricks,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field is required.
• 12+ years of relevant experience in data architecture and BI/DWH environments.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise relational databases and data integration tools.
• Experience modelling across conceptual, logical and physical layers (3NF, Data Vault, star/snowflake).
• Experience with metadata/cataloguing platforms and cloud data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the organization’s data strategy and architecture.
• Translate business requirements into scalable data architectures and specs.
• Design and manage data models, metadata, lineage, and data catalogs.
• Architect and integrate batch and real-time data pipelines across sources.
• Establish data governance, quality, security, and regulatory standards.
• Design and deploy scalable cloud/hybrid data platforms; optimize cost/performance.
• Implement profiling, cleansing, and lifecycle management processes.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize data platforms and pipelines.
• Collaborate with leaders, engineers, and data scientists to deliver solutions.
• Lead data architecture initiatives and mentor teams on standards/tools.
• Evaluate emerging data, cloud, big data, and AI technologies and recommend solutions.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

SQL

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

English fluency

Leadership mentoring

BI/DWH

Education

University degree in IT or related field

TOGAF/CDMP/DAMA-DMBoK/ISO data governance standards

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Azure Purview

OpenLineage

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Snowflake

Redshift

Job description

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS (ED) is seeking a Data Architect with expert-level English to work remotely, collaborating with a major client’s IT team on site as needed. The candidate will join a team focused on designing data strategy, governance, and scalable data platforms across cloud and hybrid environments.

The role requires 12+ years of enterprise data architecture experience, strong SQL/ETL skills, and proficiency with modern data tools and platforms such as Collibra, Azure Purview, Databricks,