Your job in a nutshell
As a Competence Architect Data, you define and drive a vision and embed it within Jumbo’s data landscape. You ensure that our data architecture is scalable, reliable, cost-efficient, and future-proof, while enabling teams across the organization to make better use of data. You don’t just design architecture, you also help Jumbo make the right decisions by connecting business needs with technical solutions and guiding teams toward maximum value.
What are we doing it for?
You help Jumbo make the best decisions and extract maximum value from data. By building a strong and accessible data foundation, you enable colleagues to make better decisions, improve customer experiences, and continuously innovate. Your work ensures that data is reliable, secure, and accessible, allowing us to keep surprising our customers every day.
Your new team
You are part of Jumbo’s Architecture family and work closely with fellow competence architects, domain architects, product management, and engineering managers.
Who do you work with?
You collaborate with stakeholders across the entire organization, including business teams, IT teams, and management. You work closely with domain architects, product managers, and engineering teams, and coordinate with multiple teams to ensure alignment across the data landscape. You bring major topics to the Tech Management Team (Tech-MT) and know when escalation or additional management attention is required.
What will you do?
In this role, you focus on strengthening and future-proofing Jumbo’s data landscape, addressing both today’s priorities and tomorrow’s opportunities. A key part of your work is increasing the resilience of our data ecosystem. You enable data producers to continuously improve and evolve their models and become resilient to future requests, while ensuring that these changes do not negatively impact the outcome driven commitments of the teams. You maintain the balance between technical and functional objectives, with a clear path towards a shared vision.
At the same time, you safeguard the quality and reliability of data. After all, meaningful insights can only be derived from data that is trustworthy consistent and unambiguous. You also take responsibility for ensuring that data is as secure as possible and managed in a cost-efficient way, for example by reducing unnecessary duplication and optimizing the overall data footprint.
You create the conditions for teams to grow and thrive. By setting clear boundaries together with your peers and leadership, and by driving standardization where it adds value, you help teams focus on what truly matters. You actively reduce repetitive and mundane work, enabling teams to dedicate their time to innovation and impact. You facilitate freedom within a framework where you guide the process bottom-up as well as top-down.
Looking ahead, you play an important role in evolving the data landscape to support new capabilities such as Agentic AI. At the same time, you strengthen governance by bringing ownership back to data producers, ensuring clear accountability across the organization.
You guide architectural decision-making together with the broader tech community, helping to create alignment and clarity in a complex environment. In addition, you proactively identify and propose new strategic opportunities that move Jumbo forward, whether that means introducing new ways of working, exploring new technologies, or simplifying the current landscape to create more room for innovation.
Who are you?
What do you get from us?
At Jumbo, you’ll find a work environment with warmth, enjoyment, and attention for each other. Where you have plenty of room to contribute to our ambition of becoming the most beloved supermarket. Just as you’re there for our customers, we’re there for you. Additionally, you’ll receive:
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