What you doWe are seeking for a highly skilled Principal Data Domain Architect to join our team and lead the design, development, and governance of a robust and scalable data architecture. 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 Volvo 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 LogisticsMentoring & 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.- Support and finalize the migration of analytics solutions to the Unified Data Platform- 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.What you bring to the teamSeveral years of experience as a Data Architect in AzureExperienced with Azure Data FactoryExperienced with Azure Synapse AnalyticsExperienced with Azure DatabricksExperienced with Azure Data LakePassion about defining and designing end-to-end scalable data solutions, ensuring they align with enterprise architecture and industry standardsYou can think and act strategically, operate tactically, and implement change effectivelyYou can act as a leader and are emphatic and enthusiastYou are experienced with stakeholder managementYou can communicate in English and preferably Dutch (big plus)You can work in the region of Ghent