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:

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  Lead the design and development of enterprise-scale data and application architectures, ensuring alignment with business strategy, scalability requirements, and mission-critical operational needs.
  
• Translate strategic business objectives and IT reference architecture into robust data and technology solutions, leveraging the broader IT ecosystem to deliver sustainable business value.
  
• Effectively communicate architecture vision, design decisions, and technical roadmaps to business stakeholders, program managers, solution analysts, data engineers, and software development teams.
  
• Drive architecture governance and compliance, ensuring proposed data and application architectures are reviewed, validated, and approved through the Technology Review Board (TRB).
  
• 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
  
• Good understanding of Data Lineage, Data Security, Data Science and working in Agile context
  
• 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.
  
• Knowledge of Organization Information needs, governance and best practices to fulfil information needs.
  
• 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.
  
• Conduct architecture impact assessments, technology evaluations, and feasibility studies to identify risks, optimize solutions, and ensure high-quality, resilient, and future-ready deliverables.
  
• Provide strategic technology advisory services to business and IT leadership, enabling informed decisions on data platforms, integration technologies, analytics solutions, and emerging capabilities.
  
• Design cost-effective and value-driven architecture solutions that balance functional requirements, non-functional requirements, performance, security, maintainability, and total cost of ownership.
  
• 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.