Our client is looking for a Customer Engagement Associate / Enterprise Data Architect who will be a member of one of the Platform Product team. Supporting their product as well as the whole Enterprise Data Architecture chapter by:
- Being the front runner of their product, discussing technical solutions with new initiatives in the Group.
- Supporting the design of Enterprise Data Architecture Blueprints,
- Validating, and improving each blueprint by actively participating in the product development,
- Supporting Data Product Teams scoping information domains and defining data products
- Generating business value for the product team.
Tasks:
- Align the business world and the technology world to reach the strategic targets.
- Align the data platform architecture view with the needs of data product team.
- Advocate and push adoption of the data platform by supporting every Data Product Teams as your customer.
- In collaboration with the subject matter experts, the consultant will design enterprise data architecture blueprints for data capabilities and enablers that support engineers working for your product
- Help to prioritize and focus data management, data governance, and data quality-improvement initiatives.
- Support your designing the Transversal Data Model (TDM) and Canonical Data Model (CDM) to structure business data through a conceptual viewpoint independent of any present realization by real systems. This include defining solution from your product to best support them.
- Drive Proof of Concepts that contribute to evaluating and validating the most suitable option for the Enterprise Data Architecture Blueprint.
- Collect and integrate feedback from other data product teams who create data products, ensuring the marketplace meets their needs.
- Support the product team and guide the Data Advisor and Engineer in best designing their solutions.
- Maximize the value of the Product in close collaboration with the Product Owner.
Requirements:
- 8+ years designing Solutions and Blueprints as a cross-domain Enterprise, Data or Solution Architect
- 8+ years designing Data Integrations within the Enterprise and with external parties, bridging Cloud and on-premise systems
- 7+ years establishing best practices, methodologies, frameworks, principles, policies and processes
- Language skills: fluent in English AND in at least one of the following languages: Dutch, French or German.
- Experience with Domain Driven Design
- Experience designing and using Data Models
- Experience with messaging systems and/or Event Driven Architecture
- Experience with data intensive API and restful architecture
- Some experience designing Master Data Management solutions (optional)
- Some experience implementing Big Data and Data Lake (optional)
- 3+ years developing data-focused products (optional)
- Some experience working on data-mesh based Architectures (optional)
- Proven experience in metadata management, data catalogs, and metadata harvesting tools.
- Master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics
- Experience in Electrical Asset Management and the TSO domain is a plus.
- Customer-oriented.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex issues correctly and clearly to both internal and external audience.
- Ability to work independently in a continuously changing environment.
- Analytical approach to problem-solving and a track record of driving results through continuous improvement.
- Curious and creative, you can think out of the box and challenge the habits and consider constructively new ideas.
- Team player breathing respect, open-mind, dare, challenge, innovation support for your product team
- Product-oriented mindset
- Excellent presentation skills