Data Architect

1 Year Contract + Possible extension

Hybrid work model with 50% on site in Ghent, Belgium

Working for one of the largest global car manufacturing companies

Job Description:

As a BI architect, the ideal candidate would be responsible for the design of the proposed data architecture on technical level.

* He or she will take part in modernization of our clients BI & Analytics landscape. We will migrate BI applications (both Back-end and Front-end) to the Cloud (MS Azure).

* They will be in charge of modeling needs (both new needs and corrections or improvements of existing flow/integrations) and will design/extend advanced conceptual, logical and physical datamodels, within a complete functional and technical architecture

* He or she will work together with other BI architects, BI analysts, BI infrastructure experts and BI developers to define technical strategy and optimal integration within the existing landscape.

* Translation of the designed solution towards BI developers, reviewing proposed solutions and optimizing where needed will be part of this role

* He or she will participate to the definition of a testing strategy

* Design, develop and continuously improve supporting activities (automation of versioning, release mgmt., scheduling, security models)

Needs:

* Business intelligence architect, with proven years of experience and adapting quickly to the way of working in the the clients BI landscape and process and guidelines

* Being able to understand and taking up the necessary knowledge about the BI application he/she would be working for in a fast and efficient way.

Soft skills:

* Teamplayer

* High level of communication skills

* Taking initiative!

* Proactive, ‘detecting improvements’ mindset

* Being able to work on different topics at the same time.

* Stress resistant

* Being able to switch priorities if needed

* Good in writing the necessary documentation (and feedback reporting)

Technical skills

* BI architect competence and proven experience

* Knowing the BI concepts / general DWH principles are a must

* Ralph Kimball, Bill Inmon, Dan linstedt are known

* Knowledge of latest market trends (big data, Cloud, …) is a must

* Azure Cloud Architecture knowledge is a must

* Experience of working in large companies

* Datavault principles: understanding is a must but developing via Wherescape is an asset

* Advanced knowledge and experience in datawarehouse dimensional modelling: must

* Powerdesigner is a must

* Analytical and problem-solving skills: must

* SQL, PL SQL competence: must

* ETL – Powercenter Informatica development is a must even if it won’t be the main task since we have other BI developers to concentrate on the BI development. Be aware that in some situations BI ETL development may be necessary (for instance to speed up performance etc)

* SAP BI frontend tool development is an asset

* Qlik (Qlikview, Qliksense) or other dashboarding tools like PowerBi are an asset

* IBM Netteza competence is an asset

* Oracle competence is an asset (might be needed when working on multiple platforms)

Language skills:

* English