Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s 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 everyone's contribution matters. It’s 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.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll 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.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.
Skills Required
- 10+ years experience designing and governing enterprise-scale data architectures in 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
What We Do
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, digital and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life. We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow. Arcadis. Improving quality of life
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