Azure Data Architect

Our client is seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Domain Architect to join their team and lead the design, development, and governance of a robust and scalable data architecture for Service Market Logistics. In this role, you will drive the creation of enterprise-level data models, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and alignment with organizational goals. As a strategic leader you’ll hold a strategic and leadership role, overseeing the organization's data architecture and ensuring it supports long-term goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Data Strategy Development: Define and lead the organization's data architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and goals. Develop a technical roadmap to ensure the target architecture is aligned with our clients design & principles.

Data Architecture Design & Governance: Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing data architecture frameworks. Implement governance processes delivered by our Data Governance & Data Management organization, to ensure data quality, consistency, and compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Data Modeling & Integration: Lead the design of physical data models, aligned with the conceptual & logical models provided by the Business Information Architects. Ensure seamless integration of data from multiple sources, enabling accurate, real-time decision-making and analytics.

Technology Evaluation & Innovation: Implement new technologies, set by the central platform organization. Lead initiatives to adopt this new technology to improve the datacapabilities for Service Market Logistics

Mentoring & Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to data architects, engineers, and modelers. Mentor team members to develop their skills and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams in defining data architecture standards, driving alignment across different departments, including data engineering, analytics, and application development teams.

Strategic Leader: drives business transformation through data, shaping the organization's future by ensuring that its data assets are fully optimized to support long-term growth and innovation.

In short:

• Develop and maintain domain architecture strategies, standards, and guidelines.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Design and implement scalable and secure architectural solutions that meet business needs.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.

• Conduct architectural reviews and ensure compliance with best practices and standards.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.

To be successful in this position (Qualifications):

You hold a university degree or equivalent and have several years of experience as a data architect, specifically within Azure’s full suite of services, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, and Azure Data Lake.

You are passionate about defining and designing scalable end-to-end data solutions that align with both enterprise architecture and industry standards.

The ideal candidate can think strategically and act tactically, implementing change effectively with a focus on business value and fact-based decision-making. This is a leadership role, requiring not only technical expertise but also strong soft skills. We are looking for an empathetic and enthusiastic architect who can communicate clearly and professionally across different levels of the organization. We expect you to be structured, fact-driven, and able to defend your viewpoints with challenging stakeholders.

You are proactive by nature, comfortable connecting with people across a large and complex organization. Your ability to tailor communication to various stakeholder levels is essential for success in this role.

If you have a suitable candidate, please email me their CV, rate, how the candidate fits the role and meets the (Qualifications).

Thanks!

Cornelia.renhult@nexergroup.com