SITA Position - SC DM/DMA

At Colruyt Group, digital transformation is at the heart of our strategy and culture, powered by a world-class IT landscape. As a Solution IT Architect, you will design and guide enterprise-scale solutions, influence strategic technology decisions, and foster lasting stakeholder relationships through innovation and architectural leadership.

  Responsibilities:

1. Lead the design and development of enterprise-scale data and application architectures, ensuring alignment with business strategy, scalability requirements, and mission-critical operational needs.
   
2. Translate strategic business objectives and IT reference architecture into robust data and technology solutions, leveraging the broader IT ecosystem to deliver sustainable business value.
   
3. Effectively communicate architecture vision, design decisions, and technical roadmaps to business stakeholders, program managers, solution analysts, data engineers, and software development teams.
   
4. Drive architecture governance and compliance, ensuring proposed data and application architectures are reviewed, validated, and approved through the Technology Review Board (TRB).
   
5. Strong understanding of Data Architecture principles, Analytical Data Platforms, and Analytics & Reporting technologies including Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Tableau, and related cloud-based data ecosystems
   
6. Good understanding of Data Lineage, Data Security, Data Science and working in Agile context
   
7. Comprehensive knowledge of organizational information needs, data governance frameworks, data management best practices, data quality standards, metadata management, and information delivery strategies to ensure trusted, compliant, and business-aligned insights across the enterprise.
   
8. Knowledge of Organization Information needs, governance and best practices to fulfil information needs.
   
9. Collaborate closely with Program and Project Managers to provide architectural guidance for effort estimation, dependency analysis, solution decomposition, and implementation planning, enabling successful project delivery.
   
10. Conduct architecture impact assessments, technology evaluations, and feasibility studies to identify risks, optimize solutions, and ensure high-quality, resilient, and future-ready deliverables.
    
11. Provide strategic technology advisory services to business and IT leadership, enabling informed decisions on data platforms, integration technologies, analytics solutions, and emerging capabilities.
    
12. Design cost-effective and value-driven architecture solutions that balance functional requirements, non-functional requirements, performance, security, maintainability, and total cost of ownership.
    
13. Lead the architecture of secure, cloud-native data and application platforms, ensuring compliance with enterprise security standards, data governance policies, privacy regulations, and operational excellence requirements.