Data Architect

Job Title: Senior Data Architect

Duration: ASAP- 31/12/2027

Location: Hasselt, Belgium (Hybrid, 2-3 days/week onsite)

Languages: Dutch & English

Context of the assignment

• The consultant works together with the internal data team, business experts, project leaders, and suppliers to develop a future-oriented data landscape. The focus is on defining architecture principles, implementing integration and migration strategies, and developing a sustainable approach to data governance.

Scope of the assignment

The consultant supports Client with:

Mapping the data landscape

• Inventory of data sources, databases, files and applications.
• Documenting data structures, entities, and interdependencies.
• Identifying duplicate data sources, shadow IT and data quality issues.
• Creation of data mappings between existing and future systems.

Supporting data quality and data governance

• Developing agreements on data standards and reference data.
• Defining validation rules and quality checks.
• Supporting data-cleaning processes.
• Advising on data management, ownership, and governance processes.

Designing a canonical data model

• Identify core entities and data relationships.
• Designing an organization-wide data model.
• Define semantic data definitions and unique identifiers.
• Alignment of the model with healthcare-related standards (FHIR)

Developing a sustainable integration architecture

• Design data flows between applications.
• Define mappings between source and target systems.
• Support API and iPaaS integrations.

Supporting migration, archiving and reporting initiatives

• Preparing data migrations to new applications.
• Advising on archiving and history management.
• Contribute to the development of a data warehouse.

The candidate has:

• Proven experience with complex integration and transformation projects.
• Experience with API-based architectures, event-driven architectures, middleware and iPaaS platforms.
• Knowledge of data modelling, master data management, data governance and data quality.
• Experience with data migration projects.

Skills

• API and iPaaS integrations
• As400
• Canonical data modeling
• Data Architecture
• Data Governance
• Data Management
• Data Transfer
• FHIR