Information Architect

We fuse together exceptional talent who deliver outstanding software solutions. Our approach has helped us grow 60% in 2021, 94% in 2022, while in 2023 we joined forces with Insight, a Fortune 500 company and a leading solutions and systems integrator. With exciting growth plans and cutting-edge projects, there has never been a better time to join our incredible team.  Job Description The Data & Information Architect is accountable for defining and embedding a shared Data & Analytics architecture. This role provides practical architectural guardrails, establishes clear ownership and decision rights for data domains, and enables analytics use cases to be delivered through standard, compliant patterns - without ad-hoc data handling or policy exceptions. You will work across product, platform, and domain teams to ensure data is modelled consistently, governed effectively, and usable for operational, analytical, and advanced analytics use cases. Main Duties and Responsibilities Data & Analytics Architecture * Define, document, and maintain the target Data & Analytics architecture, covering data domains, ingestion pipelines, analytics layers, and access patterns. * Contribute to the definition of architectural guardrails that explain what teams must do—not just what they must avoid. * Provide approved (“golden path”) patterns for data ingestion, analytics, and reporting aligned with security, privacy, and governance requirements.   Common Domain & Canonical Modelling * Define and govern the Common Domain Model, establishing shared semantic definitions for core maritime concepts such as vessel, seafarer, voyage, cargo, port call, certificate, and contract. * Design and evolve a technology-neutral Canonical Data Model (CDM) to standardise data exchange for targeted integrations. * Ensure consistency between operational data models and analytical representations to support reporting and advanced analytics.   Ownership, Governance & Decision-Making * Establish and document clear ownership and stewardship for data domains, datasets, and analytics platforms. * Define decision rights and resolve cross-domain data design conflicts in collaboration with domain and platform leaders. * Drive metadata management, glossary definitions, and lineage standards to improve discoverability, traceability, and regulatory compliance (e.g. IMO, EU MRV, ESG).   Analytics Enablement * Ensure the data architecture enables scalable reporting, self-service analytics, and ML-ready data without ad-hoc handling. * Work with analytics and data scientists to align data structures, pipelines, and access patterns with real analytical use cases. * Balance operational and analytical needs across real-time events, reporting, and historical analysis.   Collaboration & Architecture Practice * Embed data architecture decisions into Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and architecture review forums. * Act as a bridge between domain experts, product managers, platform teams, and delivery teams to ensure data architecture is understood, adopted, and applied. * Contribute to the evolution of platform-wide architecture standards and review practices.   Standards & Industry Alignment * Align the company's data models with relevant maritime and logistics standards (e.g. S-100, IMO/ISO/EDIFACT, BIMCO, DCSA) where appropriate, while supporting proprietary innovation. * Evaluate emerging data and analytics practices and recommend improvements aligned with the company's strategy. Skills and Qualifications * 5+ years’ experience in data architecture, information architecture, or enterprise data modelling roles. * Strong expertise in canonical data modelling and semantic modelling across complex, distributed systems. * Experience defining data architectures that support both operational and analytical use cases. * Familiarity with event-driven architectures, APIs, and cloud-native data platforms (e.g. data lakes, data hubs, event buses). * Proven experience working with domain-driven design (DDD) teams in agile product organisations. * Ability to influence decisions and drive adoption without formal authority.   To see more roles, click here.

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.  We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you. BACKGROUND: eu-LISA is the European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA) manages large-scale IT systems to support the implementation of asylum, border management and migration policies in the European Union (EU). The Agency is also a front-runner for the digitalisation efforts of the EU's Justice and Home Affairs domain, building a new information architecture and contributing to the development of a new security ecosystem. Since the Agency's beginnings in 2012, eu-LISA has become the digital engine of the Schengen Area. With its activities and tasks, the Agency adds value to the EU Member States by supporting their efforts towards justice, security and freedom. TASK DESCRIPTION:          * Supports the Agency's Security Officers in developing and maintaining the security architecture of the agency in collaboration with the Enterprise Architect. * The profile will be expected to perform the following tasks: * Create and manage security standards, design patterns, and reference architectures * Analyse and define security requirements for networks, corporate applications/systems , end user computing, mobility, and data center technologies and solutions * Develop and maintain the organizational security control framework; * Ensure that IT Security controls meet the requirements of all regulatory requirements or contractual requirements * Work with the Security Officer and IT teams to ensure that implemented security technologies are integrated and fully utilized as intended in the protection of agency information systems. * Monitoring and analysing trends in IT Security * Develop strategic and detailed technical roadmaps of the enterprise security environments and the associated technologies required to deliver these solutions on a global basis. * Develop the business, information and technical artifacts that constitute the enterprise information security architecture and solutions. * Researches, evaluates, designs, tests, recommends and plans the implementation of new or updated information security technologies. EDUCATION:        * Minimum 4 years of relevant education (master or equivalent) after the secondary school MINIMUM EXPERIENCE: * Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience in IT security * Minimum 4 years of professional experience in security architecture ADDITIONAL NEEDED QUALIFICATION, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:          * Expected to possess advanced knowledge of/in: * Core domains of IT Infrastructure such as Data Networks, Server and Desktop hardware and Operating Systems, Messaging, Collaboration, Storage and Backups, and related monitoring and management systems. * Security-specific architecture methodology, e.g. SABSA * Security architecture models, security strategy development, and compliance management. * Mobile Architecture, Network and Application Security and/or Data protection * Secure development processes. * Application Security Vulnerabilities such as OWASP Top 10, CWE/SANS Top 25 and remediation approaches * Cybersecurity control good practice such as the SANS Top 20 Critical Controls. * IT audit/assessment frameworks: ISO-standards; NIST, CobiT and Industry standard application development methodologies * Enterprise authentication authorization and identity management schemes (Active directory, LDAP, etc.) * Technical security controls such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, Vulnerability Management, web application firewalls, security gateways, WiFi, Mobile security, DLP, public key infrastructure, Encryption and Authentication techniques, * Relational Databases, Middleware Applications, Collaboration and Document management solutions. * XML, Web Services and SOAP protocols, both in client and server as well as dynamic languages such as Objective-C, VBScript, JavaScript * Network and web related protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, SNMP, ICAP, etc.) * Expected to possess one or more of the following qualifications: * Certified Information Systems Security Professional with Information Systems Security Architecture Professional concentration (CISSP-ISSAP) * Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) * Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) * TOGAF certification * Other similar credentials We never know what new opportunities might be just over the horizon. If this opportunity isn't for you, please feel free to send us your resume anyway and be the first to know if something suitable for your skills and experience comes up.