Senior Data Architect

Details

At Eneco, we're accelerating the energy transition through data and AI-driven decision-making at scale, guided by our One Planet plan and our ambition to become the first CO₂-neutral energy company by 2035. As a Senior Architect – Data & AI Platforms, you will set the architectural vision and golden paths for Eneco’s data and AI ecosystem. You’ll work closely with Platform Engineering, Enterprise IT, and product teams to shape a scalable, interoperable, and future-proof platform landscape.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural direction and evolution of Eneco’s Data & GenAI Platforms, defining the target architecture and roadmap that enables high-velocity delivery of data, analytics, ML, and GenAI solutions while ensuring compliance, security, and efficiency.
• Lead the design of a Lakehouse-centric ecosystem integrating technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, Collibra, dbt, Airflow, and the Microsoft AI ecosystem (Copilot Studio, AI Foundry, Power Platform).
• Build and scale the GenAI platform, establishing standardized patterns for RAG, agent workflows, and LLMOps to enable product teams to rapidly deploy safe and reliable AI solutions.
• Drive industrialization of the modern data stack, embed governance by design, and improve developer experience through golden paths, templates, and reference architectures.
• Implement observability and FinOps monitoring for pipelines, models, cost control, quality, compliance, and performance.
• Operationalize data governance through Collibra (or equivalent), embedding GDPR-compliant privacy-by-design and policy enforcement mechanisms.
• Ensure interoperability with enterprise platforms, identity management, ITSM, and security standards in partnership with Platform Engineering and Enterprise IT.
• Lead the Architecture Community: share patterns, review designs, mentor teams, and drive adoption of best practices.
• Define and track architecture success metrics such as reliability, time-to-value, cost efficiency, security, and reuse rates.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in data, analytics, or AI architecture, with at least 5 years leading modern cloud data platforms at scale.
• Deep expertise with Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and Collibra, including performance optimization, cost control, and governance design.
• Proven experience delivering GenAI and LLMOps platforms (RAG, vector search, prompt orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails), preferably on Azure.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, privacy and compliance (GDPR), lineage, metadata management, RBAC/ABAC, and policy-as-code.
• Proficiency with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform/Bicep) and platform SRE practices.
• Experience working across engineering, product, security, and enterprise IT stakeholders with strong communication and influencing skills.
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns such as Lakehouse, data mesh, event-driven design, CDC, and contract-first APIs.
• A pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with a strategic vision for scalable, compliant platforms.

Nice to have:

• Experience in the energy or utilities sector.
• Knowledge of Azure OpenAI integrations and enterprise search.
• Familiarity with NIS2 implications for critical infrastructure.
• Dutch language proficiency.

This is where you’ll work

You will join Eneco’s Data & AI domain, a central hub driving the company’s digital transformation. You’ll work in a hybrid setup from our Rotterdam office, collaborating with platform engineers, data engineers, AI specialists, product teams and enterprise IT. The role combines technical excellence with a strong sense of purpose: accelerating the energy transition.

Benefits

• Gross annual salary between €93,000 and €150,000 (including FlexBudget, 8% holiday allowance, and depending on your role a bonus or collective profit sharing).
• FlexBudget (pay out, buy extra holiday days, or save).
• Personal and professional development support.
• Hybrid working: 40% at the office, 40% from home, and 20% flexibly. With manager approval, you may work abroad (within approved countries) up to 3 weeks/year, max 2 consecutively.

Contact

For more information about this job function contact the recruiter via the contact details in the posting.