Enterprise Data Architect

Company Description

Company Description

Work smart, have fun and make an impact!

Our purpose is to guide all companies toward a sustainable world. EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology. We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

Why apply to EcoVadis? Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people. Feel valued for your contribution.

Learn more about our team and culture on EcoVadis careers page. 

Job Description

In this new role, you will be part of the Enterprise Architecture team which supports multiple teams focused on data including Analytics, BI, Data Engineering Data Governance and AI/ML.

The role would be key for sustaining EcoVadis’ growth. As our company evolves, and our product portfolio expands, we are adjusting our approach to data operations to match the growing needs of our data-driven business.

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning: Participate in building target architectures and long-term strategic roadmaps of Product & Transformation, together with our Solutions, Engineering and Information Systems teams; become the owner of Data Strategy on architecture side

• Stakeholder Guidance: Advise business and technical stakeholders, both within and outside Data & Analytics, on self-service data platform capabilities and best practices to maximize value for the business.

• Enable Data as a Product: Collaborate with Product Managers and Data Product Owners to ensure data products are designed for reusability, scalability, and self-service consumption.

• Define best practices for the development, maintenance, and lifecycle management of data products.

• Architecture Governance: Continuously improve our architecture governance practices, i.e. by leading and contributing to Design Authority, formalizing environments architecture, helping to grow devops culture, while staying in line with our Data Governance

• Standardization: Develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across all stakeholders of our data platform, both within Technology teams (Data & Analytics, Business Applications, Engineering, AI/ML, MLOps) and outside (function analytics within respective business functions, including functions working with sensitive data)

• Define and maintain Enterprise data models & domains and guide respective teams in implementing them

• Identify discrepancies between the technical architecture, agreed practices and systems designs proposed by project teams; applies to both internal tech teams and function analytics

• Monitor new technological advances and assists project teams in reducing technical debt

• Explore and validate new solutions in data platforms space, based on business requirements and/or own research

• Drive continuous improvement, explore, deliver Proof of Concepts, help driving adoption

• Partner with IT team members to ensure architecture aligns with security strategy/policies and to provide a consensus-based scalable and adaptable architectural solution

• Being part of D&A leadership

In summary, initially you will be responsible for:

• Vision and governance practices across our Data platform: 30%

• Projects - driving and/or validating solution & technical design: 30%

• Explore new solutions: 20%

• Continuous improvements: 20%

Qualifications

• Very good knowledge of data platforms in general, i.e. data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, BI tools, embedded analytics solutions

• Expertize in multi-domain analytical architectures, i.e. data mesh, medallion architecture, self-service analytics & BI

• Specific experience with Databricks is a must

• Experience with enterprise data models design, knowledge of various data modeling patterns, data engineering practices, data management standards i.e. DAMA

• At least 5 years focusing on architecture (any of: data architecture, solution architecture, enterprise architecture)

• Broad understanding of technical aspects of data integration, including data catalogs, data quality, solution maintainability, performance and security

• Practical experience with concepts such as MDM, RDM, CDP, ETL, ELT, rETL, SQL, noSQL, near-real time analytics

• Approach going beyond only technical components of architecture, but rather including people - process - technology as a whole

• Cloud expertise: Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and services is a must, experience with Azure services would be a plus

• Experience with all stages of SDLC - from building vision & strategy, through solution design, vendor selection process in some projects, technical design, leading workshops, assisting implementation teams & troubleshooting issues and driving solution adoption

• Good stakeholder management skills; proficiency in verbal and written communication; facilitation skills

• Pragmatic approach to governance & application portfolio rationalization

• Data Compliance and Ethics:data compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, SOX) and ethical considerations in data usage and AI/ML model deployment

• Must be a team player, but with a high degree of self-organization

• Ability to mentor and guide teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.

• Relevant certifications (i.e. CDMP/DAMA, TOGAF, CIPP) would be a plus

Additional Information

Full time position

Location: Barcelona (hybrid) or Spain (remotely)

Our growing team in Spain is full of talented professionals from various fields who all share a desire to make sustainability real. We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one.
This includes extensive onboarding, teammates' support and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules. So you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones!
In return for your expertise and energy, we offer:

Working organization benefits:
Casual and very friendly work environment
Hybrid work organization (from the office or from home)
Home office allowance program
IT equipment allowance
Opportunity to work in a truly international atmosphere

Compensation benefits:
Base salary + variable compensation plan
Meals and Transportation Vouchers (Cobee card)

Wellness and Healthcare benefits:
Health, Wellness, and Dental Benefits
Life & Accident Insurance
Unlimited and completely confidential sessions with psychologists and online well-being programs.

More:
Employee referral bonus policy
Paid employee volunteer day
Paid moving day ( 1/year)
90 days Working from anywhere policy 
Virtual and in-person team-building events

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV, in English, with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring from a diverse and skilled talent pool, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, including the provision of interview questions, please let the hiring team know.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. In your application, we encourage you to remove personal information such as: photographs, marital status, number of children, religion, gender, residential postal code, university graduation date, past medical or parental leave(s) taken, nationality (instead, please state if you are legally eligible to work in the job region/country), university name (instead, please state any degrees obtained and the study major).