Enterprise Data Architect

How do you make our customers happy?

By transforming bol’s vast and still partly uncharted ocean of data into a powerful engine for innovation and customer satisfaction. As our Data Architect, you’ll mastermind the structures and strategies that allow us to leverage data’s full potential, maximizing its strategic impact. Your work will enable us to make smarter decisions, create more personalized experiences, and uncover new opportunities to serve customers, partners, and colleagues. By optimizing our data flow and management, you’ll help bol transition from seeing data as a by-product to maximizing its value as an asset that drives long-term success.

The biggest challenge

Is to design and implement a data ecosystem that not only keeps pace with bol’s rapid growth but anticipates future needs. You’ll need to bridge the gap between our engineering culture, where data is often considered a by-product, and our business vision, which already recognizes data’s immense potential. As such, you’ll be at the forefront of bol’s data revolution, guiding senior leadership through the necessary changes. Can you create a data architecture that’s both robust enough to meet compliance requirements and flexible enough to fuel innovation?

What you'll do as Data Architect

Reporting to the Director of Data, Analytics & AI, you’ll be the driving force behind bol’s enterprise-wide data architecture strategy. Your scope will span the entire organization, influencing how we collect, store, manage, and leverage data across our operations. You’ll develop the enterprise data architecture strategy and implement it by defining and enforcing data architecture principles, ensuring alignment with compliance while stimulating innovation. You will ensure all data processes are facilitated by technology, by guiding the selection and integration of advanced data management platforms and tools to build a state-of-the-art data ecosystem. A key responsibility will be facilitating the creation and maintenance of our Enterprise Data Model, providing a holistic view of data across bol. To succeed, you need to represent data at different levels of abstraction so that it can be better interpreted to inspire well-informed management decisions and enabling proper data management practices.

Your expertise will be crucial in enabling future business innovations. You’ll achieve this through training, coaching, and direct contributions to projects. You’ll identify new opportunities for data value creation, including cutting-edge applications in data science and AI. The role also involves performing architecture and modeling design reviews to ensure scalability and security. This is critical as we navigate high-risk subjects. Beyond the technical aspects, you’ll contribute to the evangelization of the data strategy and to maturing bol’s data organization, covering crucial areas such as Data Management, (Advanced) Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. Summing up:

• Lead the development and implementation of bol’s enterprise data architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and technology capabilities.
• Evangelize data strategy across the organization, championing the value of data and influencing practices through design, documentation, review, and cross-team negotiations to support strategic business and technology goals.
• Collaborate with Technology & Product leadership and business stakeholders to understand data needs, identify architectural gaps, and propose solutions that enhance data accessibility, reliability, and scalability.
• Facilitate, design and manage robust, scalable data models and architectures to meet bol’s current and long-term data requirements, focusing on efficiency and quality, while aligning on compliance and security requirements.

• Guide the selection and integration of advanced data management platforms and tools (e.g., data lakes, data warehouses, ETL tools) to build a state-of-the-art data ecosystem.
• Establish and enforce data architecture standards and principles, encompassing modelling, metadata, security, reference data, and master data management.
• Drive continuous improvement of the data platform, including technology stack upgrades, cost optimization, and compliance with evolving requirements.

Why you can make an impact

This role is tailor-made for a visionary data leader with a passion for turning complex data landscapes into strategic assets. Your deep understanding of data architectures, combined with your ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, will be crucial in driving bol’s data transformation. You’ll need to combine technical expertise with strategic thinking, as you’ll be facilitating the design of detailed data models as well as advising on high-level data strategy. And your impact will be felt across the entire organization, from optimizing day-to-day operations to shaping long-term business strategies. You combine your track record of an experienced IT or data professional with at least 5 years of experience in data architecture, preferable in a data rich product company.

• Tactics over strategies You prefer hands-on database management to shaping high-level data strategy and influencing C-suite decisions.
• Unbridgeable Complying with regulations while sparking innovation? Make that the theme of the next Mission Impossible!
• Soloist Aligning diverse stakeholders - from engineers to executives - around a unified data vision doesn't appeal to you.

• True data visionary You develop data ecosystems that drive business transformations.
• Strategy translator You can fluently translate between C-suite aspirations, engineering implications, and data possibilities.
• Demonstrably masterful You've successfully led enterprise-wide data initiatives that fundamentally altered how organizations operate.

This is where you'll work

At the epicenter of bol’s data revolution! You’ll be joining a dynamic environment where your architectural decisions will shape the future of how we leverage data across our entire organization. As a key member of our Data, Analytics & AI department, you’ll have the opportunity to influence how our 2,900 colleagues use data to serve millions of customers daily. Your vision will be crucial in driving bol’s transformation into a truly data-driven organization. You’ll be working with cutting-edge technologies, collaborating with top talent across various disciplines, and directly influencing how we innovate in the fast-paced world of e-commerce. At bol, we believe in pushing boundaries, both in how we serve our customers and in how we leverage our data.