About the role
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:
- 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.