Enterprise Data Architect

5 days ago
Full time role
In-person · Barcelona, CT, ES... more

In this new role, you will be part of the Enterprise Architecture team which supports multiple teams focused on data including Analytics, BI, Data Engineering Data Governance and AI/ML.

The role would be key for sustaining EcoVadis’ growth. As our company evolves, and our product portfolio expands, we are adjusting our approach to data operations to match the growing needs of our data-driven business.

Key responsibilities:

  • Strategic Planning: Participate in building target architectures and long-term strategic roadmaps of Product & Transformation, together with our Solutions, Engineering and Information Systems teams; become the owner of Data Strategy on architecture side

  • Stakeholder Guidance: Advise business and technical stakeholders, both within and outside Data & Analytics, on self-service data platform capabilities and best practices to maximize value for the business.

  • Enable Data as a Product: Collaborate with Product Managers and Data Product Owners to ensure data products are designed for reusability, scalability, and self-service consumption.

  • Define best practices for the development, maintenance, and lifecycle management of data products.

  • Architecture Governance: Continuously improve our architecture governance practices, i.e. by leading and contributing to Design Authority, formalizing environments architecture, helping to grow devops culture, while staying in line with our Data Governance

  • Standardization: Develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across all stakeholders of our data platform, both within Technology teams (Data & Analytics, Business Applications, Engineering, AI/ML, MLOps) and outside (function analytics within respective business functions, including functions working with sensitive data)

  • Define and maintain Enterprise data models & domains and guide respective teams in implementing them

  • Identify discrepancies between the technical architecture, agreed practices and systems designs proposed by project teams; applies to both internal tech teams and function analytics

  • Monitor new technological advances and assists project teams in reducing technical debt

  • Explore and validate new solutions in data platforms space, based on business requirements and/or own research

  • Drive continuous improvement, explore, deliver Proof of Concepts, help driving adoption

  • Partner with IT team members to ensure architecture aligns with security strategy/policies and to provide a consensus-based scalable and adaptable architectural solution

  • Being part of D&A leadership

 

In summary, initially you will be responsible for:

  • Vision and governance practices across our Data platform: 30%

  • Projects - driving and/or validating solution & technical design: 30%

  • Explore new solutions: 20%

  • Continuous improvements: 20%