Data Architect V

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34000 people in over 30 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:
Act as the senior steward of the enterprise data architecture defining and governing the target-state data ecosystem to enable scalable secure and business-aligned data platforms and products across the organisation.

Role accountabilities:

• Collaborates with tech owners leads product owners and the respective business stakeholders in architecting and implementing data management and data governance solutions.
• Proactively engages with key stakeholders to receive feedback gauge satisfaction with team services and address issues or concerns.
• Collaborates with the data engineering and data services team to advise the team on technical solutions to address business priorities and corporate strategy.
• Define and govern enterprise data architecture patterns covering data ingestion storage processing analytics and consumption.
• Provide hands-on architectural oversight for complex large-scale data platform initiatives including design reviews and solution assurance.
• Establish and evolve standards for data modelling metadata management data quality security and interoperability.
• Ensure architectures are cloud-first scalable resilient and compliant with regulatory and information security requirements.
• Guide the selection and evolution of data technologies and tooling in line with the enterprise roadmap.
• Be accountable for architectural integrity coherence and technical debt management across the data platform landscape.
• Ensure delivery teams adhere to agreed data architecture standards principles and reference architectures.
• Own resolution of complex architectural risks issues and dependencies impacting data platforms and products.
• Partner with data engineering platform and product teams to deliver scalable and reusable data capabilities.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture and security teams to ensure alignment with broader technology strategy.
• Contribute to architecture communities of practice and continuous improvement of standards and ways of working.
• Support change management communication and adoption of data platform capabilities across the organisation.
• Support budget discipline and investment prioritisation in collaboration with the Director of Data Platforms & Data Engineering

Qualifications & Experience:

• 10 years experience designing and governing enterprise-scale data architectures within complex multinational environments.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead architectural decisions across organisational boundaries.
• Deep experience with modern cloud data platforms data engineering practices and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of data governance security privacy and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated capability in vendor evaluation technology selection and strategic roadmap development

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.

Together we can create a lasting legacy.

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