Data Architect

At Uni Systems, we are working towards turning digital visions into reality. We are continuously growing and we are looking for a Data Architect to join our UniQue Brussels team!

The initiative is to prepare a Safety and Security Analytics (SSA) extended technical features that are being deployed to enable further project development.

What will you be bringing to the team?

• Contribute to and validate the data and systems architecture foreseen for the solution.
• Provide direct support to the project activities in the design, implementation and administration of the tools.
• Design, develop and implement data cleansing, data preparation or other type of data processing solutions.
• Follow up, coordinate and facilitate all data manipulation activities and initiatives in the course of the project and in the follow-up activities.
• Provide support and training on data manipulation and processing to the different stakeholders of the project.
• Contribute to the projects in data-related aspects delivering data modelling, interface definition, technical and functional documentation, etc.
• Support definition, design and use of the platform focusing on data sources efficient integration, storage, accessibility and processing, data transmissions, interfaces and data security.
• Participate in the analytics usage and test scenarios identification and investigation.
• Participate in the platform tool deployment, integration and administration.
• Identify, document and apply operational procedures for the use of the platform.
• Define and document technical specifications for the platform integration (interfaces, data models, etc.).
• Consider and map/apply on the platform the requirements and constraints from all stakeholders.
• Contribute to data and integration architecture and support future needs without significant rework for following releases and following eventual analytics evolution.
• Support the analysis and documentation priorities
• Direct support to the users of the platform facilitating their work while identifying and documenting potential improvements.
• Propose systems, components and/or services architecture COTS software products, standards; and/or to evaluate technical offers of contractors and other vendors;
• Make proposals for architecture and data governance.
• Provide technology and architectural guidance
• Design of the Analytics Data Models and Data processing/ Data flows, including potential integration of data from other systems.
• Produce and/or review documents. This includes both functional and technical, system and application architecture documents;
• Support development for implementation
• Escalate issues, in particular the ones with potential impacts on time or resources;
• Active participation in review of technical requirements and proposed solutions related to the Portal and COTS (among the others: Dataiku, Denodo, Superset, Jupyterlab and RStudio)

Requirements

What do you need to succeed in this position?

• University degree in a relevant field
• At least 13 years of IT experience,
• Minimum 4 years of experience should be specialized in design and implementation of IT systems
• Meaningful knowledge and practical experience:
  • data architecture,
  • large-scale and high-availability IT systems,
  • Analytics,
  • Big Data design patterns,
  • data governance,
  • service implementation patterns,
  • distributed system design
  • messaging layer.
• Able to make proposals for architecture and data governance
• Experience with Design of the Analytics Data Models and Data processing/ Data flows including potential integration of data from other institutions or from public data sets.
• Practical knowledge of the COTS (Dataiku, Denodo, Superset, Jupyterlab and RStudio) is an advantage
• Fluency in English, good command of French is an asset.

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