At Nationale-Nederlanden, we believe the person makes the professional. Following our company strategy, we are looking to strengthen our central offices in Alcobendas with a hybrid, flexible, and accommodating work environment.
We are seeking a Data & AI Architect for our commercial area, joining the Data & Cloud Services team. The primary responsibility is to build a scalable and flexible data platform that meets the needs of our business units.
Purpose/Mission of the Position: To lead in ensuring compliance, security, and seamless data integration, collaborating with dynamic teams to shape the future of data management. Unlock new opportunities, transform data into powerful insights, and be the visionary setting the standard for excellence and driving innovation.
What You Will Do: * Collaborate with enterprise architects, security, and compliance teams to ensure governance, lineage, and ethical AI practices. * Support the deployment of scalable machine learning models and Generative AI use cases, including integration with operational systems. * Provide technical guidance on data contracts, event-driven architectures, and streaming patterns using Kafka or Event Hubs. * Promote the adoption of best practices in data architecture, metadata management, and cost optimization (FinOps). * Integrate technical functionality (e.g., scalability, security, performance, data recovery, reliability). * Define and design to ensure data accuracy and accessibility. * Constantly monitor, refine, and report on the performance of data management systems. * Maintain a corporate repository of all data architecture artifacts and procedures. * Assist in reaching the next level of maturity in data types processing and AI adoption.
What We Are Looking For: * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant field. * A minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in a similar role, delivering cloud-native and hybrid data solutions in Azure, including Azure Databricks and Azure Data Architecture. * Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks and Azure Data Platform components: Azure Data Factory, Data Lake Storage Gen2, Synapse, Azure Machine Learning. * Experience designing ML/AI solution architectures, including model training pipelines, deployment, and monitoring. * Solid understanding of data governance frameworks (e.g., Unity Catalog, Purview, RBAC, PII protection). * Familiarity with software engineering practices: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep), DevOps/DataOps/ML Ops. * Excellent communication skills to influence technical and business stakeholders. * Fluent in English and Spanish. * Experience with GenAI frameworks (e.g., OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, LangChain) and orchestration of AI Agents. * Insurance knowledge or participation in projects for the Financial Industry will be valued.
What We Offer: As part of our Employee Experience, we offer a range of competitive benefits to improve the physical, mental, and professional well-being of our employees: * Hybrid work model. * Starting financial aid for home office equipment. * Allowance and telework subsidies. * Flexible working hours and 2 months of intensive working hours in summer. * Life insurance and a pension plan. * Objectives bonus as a performance reward. * Free parking at the office (cars, motorbikes, electric cars with chargers, bikes). * Flexible retribution facilities (transport card, nursery checks, Sanitas health insurance, training). * Involvement in society through volunteer actions and time off for volunteering. * Wellness Program. * Agile methodology for team work.
