- Company Name
- DPD (Belgium) NV/SA
- Job Title
- Data & Solution Architect
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Data & Solution Architect
**Role Summary**
Design, build, and maintain enterprise data pipelines, models, and integrations to support analytics, reporting, and self‑service BI tools. Translate business requirements into technical blueprints, lead implementation, and ensure data quality, performance, scalability, security, and compliance across cloud, on‑premise, and hybrid environments.
**Expectations**
• Minimum 5 years experience in data engineering, BI platform design, or software engineering.
• Proven track record in an agile team setting.
• Strong analytical, solution‑oriented mindset.
• Excellent communication skills; team player.
• Thrives under pressure; proactive with a continuous learning attitude.
• Fluent in English; French/Dutch an asset.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Architect and develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines (Snowflake, SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
- Design, create, and optimize data models to support analytics, reporting, and operational use cases.
- Implement data quality controls, validation processes, and monitoring for accuracy and reliability.
- Integrate APIs, cloud services, and third‑party systems; manage migration of legacy systems to the cloud.
- Define and enforce technical standards for performance, scalability, maintainability, security, and availability.
- Ensure seamless integration between enterprise systems, microservices, and analytics platforms.
- Evaluate architectural components of data warehouses, reporting platforms, and data flow designs.
- Identify and recommend innovative solutions to improve performance, maintainability, and scalability.
**Required Skills**
- Advanced SQL/T‑SQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, SQL Server.
- ETL/ELT design and implementation.
- Data modeling and BI tool support (Tableau).
- Programming: Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Cloud services (Snowflake, Azure, AWS, GCP).
- API integration and data migration.
- Strong understanding of data quality, security, compliance, and governance.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
- Professional certifications (e.g., Snowflake Certified Associate, Cloudera Certified Professional – Data Engineer, Azure Data Engineer Associate) preferred but not mandatory.