About this role
HCME Location: Amsterdam Type: Full-time Our Values Your Mission The Data & Integration Architect defines, designs, and runs the data and integration architecture across the enterprise, combining reference ‑ architecture leadership with hands ‑ on delivery. Going beyond narrow boundaries and rigid processes, the role shapes and industrializes modern patterns - often from a blank canvas - to enable API ‑ first and event ‑ driven capabilities for core processes, analytics, and AI. Operating as a change agent in a global, multicultural setting, the architect partners across functions to drive adoption and continuously raise the bar on security, performance, and reliability. What You'll Be Doing Enterprise Data & Integration Architecture - Define and evolve the target state and roadmap for data and integration across the enterprise, aligning business capabilities with architecture guardrails and decision records. - Establish API‑first and event‑driven reference architectures with a lightweight review mechanism that assures conformance while preserving delivery speed. - Maintain alignment from business capabilities and processes to the underlying data models, interfaces, and integration flows, with clear ownership and decision traceability across IT and Business teams. Data Platforms & Integration Solutions - Design and deliver scalable, resilient integration solutions (APIs, events, batch) connecting ERP and CRM, and co‑architect new capabilities and platforms as they are introduced. - Industrialize standardized building blocks (reference implementations, patterns, templates, CI/CD, IaC) so teams can deliver consistently and at pace. - Define guardrails for service levels (SLO/SLA) and performance benchmarks; ensure these objectives are reviewed against telemetry on a regular cadence, with operations owning run‑time optimization. - Specify operability acceptance criteria and evaluate run‑books, failure‑mode analysis, and auto...