Did you know there is a lot of digital and technology in a Mentos and a Chupa Chup?
As one of the leading confectionery producers worldwide, every day is a sweet day at Perfetti Van Melle. Come join us in confecting a sweeter future. We are focused on growing our business by building on and developing our talent, to be serious about sweets and to continuously refresh our way of working.
Are you experienced in Azure Databricks as an Architect and do you like to drive our enterprise data lakehouse platform to the next level? Then this is your chance to join the Global IT Solutions, Business Intelligence and Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) team at Perfetti Van Melle.
What you will do
Your responsibilities consist of:
- Evolve our Azure Databricks-based data lakehouse strategy
- Design scalable, cost-efficient and secure architectures for ingestion, transformation and consumption of enterprise data
- Oversee the orchestration of data pipelines, workflows and platform operations using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory and related services
- Establish standards for governance, performance, monitoring and reusability of data assets.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to technical leads and engineering teams.
- Act as the key escalation point for architectural decisions and technical challenges in projects.
- Support capability building within the BI & Analytics CoE by mentoring, training, and enabling adoption of best practices.
- Apply strong knowledge of FMCG industry processes (e.g. sales, supply chain, manufacturing, finance) to design data solutions that drive tangible value.
- Leverage experience with SAP data models (ECC, S/4HANA, BW etc.) to ensure optimized data extraction, modeling and integration approaches.
- Lead the technical leads in the collaboration with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, business-ready data solutions.
What we need from you
Our candidate offers:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics or platform architecture roles with 5+ years focused on Azure Databricks.
- Proven track record architecting and delivering data lakehouse platforms at enterprise scale.
- Experience in FMCG business environments and deep understanding of associated data needs.
- Hands-on expertise with SAP data models and integration methods.
- Deep expertise in Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Sparkand distributed data processing.
- Strong knowledge of Azure ecosystem: Data Factory, Synapse, ADLS, Purview, Event Hub etc.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL and data pipeline orchestration frameworks.
- Solid foundation in data modeling, governance, security and performance optimization.
- Ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and guide architectural decisions.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across business and IT.
- Strategic thinker who can translate enterprise vision into actionable technical roadmaps.
About the company
Perfetti Van Melle is a privately owned company that manufactures and distributes candy and chewing gum in over 150 countries worldwide. Today, Perfetti Van Melle is ranked as the third largest sugar confectionery/chewing gum company in the world, second in Europe, with strong brands like Mentos, Chupa Chups, Fruittella, Frisk and Smint. The ability to develop products, varieties and flavours that meet the different demands and opportunities of markets is one Perfetti Van Melle’s keys to success.
