Data Architect in Utrecht

• A permanent contract of 32, 36, or 40 hours with a compensation budget up to €8,300 gross per month incl. holiday allowance and mobility allowance;
• Freedom of choice in travel: electric lease car, mileage allowance, NS‑Business Card, or a combination thereof;
• We motivate an active lifestyle; therefore, we also offer a bicycle lease plan via Lease a Bike;
• 26 vacation days with the option to purchase more, an expense allowance, and an annual bonus;
• Benefits at Work: discounts at bol.com, HEMA, and Wehkamp, among others;
• A strong in-house L&D program, unlimited training budget, and active professional communities;
• Sustainability budget and flexible arrangements;
• Attention to mental health via OpenUp, vitality webinars, parenthood training, and discounts on your gym membership, among others;
• Access to inspiring events such as Women@Sogeti and SoPlay.

As a Data Architect, you operate at the intersection of strategy, technology, and business. You help organizations transform data into a competitive advantage by designing future-proof data architectures that are ready for analytics, AI, and innovation. In doing so, you look beyond technology alone: you create cohesion between people, processes, and platforms and ensure that data becomes reliable, scalable, and accessible.

At clients, you act as a substantive sparring partner for both management and technical teams. You translate complex issues into clear architectural choices and guide organizations in their development toward modern data platforms based on Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Azure. At the same time, you continue to develop yourself within a strong community of architects, data engineers, and AI specialists who continuously challenge and strengthen one another.

You help organizations build a sustainable foundation for data-driven decision-making. Based on your architectural vision, you determine the course for modern data platforms, data governance, and integration issues. You oversee the entire data landscape and ensure that business objectives are translated into scalable, secure, and future-proof solutions.

Together with data engineers, analytics specialists, and stakeholders, you make the trade-offs necessary to extract value from data. You are able to communicate at executive, management, and technical levels and know how to connect different interests into one common direction. In doing so, you closely follow developments regarding cloud, AI, data governance, and lakehouse architectures and advise clients on innovations within Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and Databricks that actually add business value.

• Designing enterprise data architectures for analytics, AI, and data platform initiatives;
• Defining data models, integration patterns, governance principles, and architectural standards;
• Advising clients on modern lakehouse architectures and cloud-native data platforms;
• Ensuring data quality, metadata management, security, and compliance within the data landscape;
• Connecting business strategy, data governance, and technological choices into one integral architectural vision;
• Guiding architectural projects and stakeholders at strategic, tactical, and operational levels.