We are seeking 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 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. 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. Skills Several years of experience as an Azure Data Architect You have knowledge of Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, You can define and design end-to-end scalable data solutions, ensuring they align with enterprise architecture and industry standards You can think and act strategically, operate tactically, and implement change effectively, managing change priorities in a business-focused, fact-based, and collaborative way to achieve real impact You are emphatic & enthusiast You are an excellent communicator who speaks fluently English (Dutch is an advantage) You can work on site in the region of Ghent as a freelancer