Data & AI Architect

At customer site, Flexible, Diegem, Leuven
Data & AI, Architecture
Professional

As a Data & AI Architect, you play a key role in delivering innovative data and AI solutions with real social impact. You guide projects from concept to production, combining strategic insight with deep technical expertise. You enable teams to experiment and achieve quick results, while building a sustainable architecture for the future.

  • You design the strategic blueprint for data and AI solutions that support business objectives. You provide technical leadership, oversee implementations and safeguard quality, performance and consistency. You foster continuous improvement, identify optimisation opportunities and embrace innovation at every stage. Analyse customer needs and translate them into concrete use cases and implementation plans. Make, justify and integrate technology choices into a coherent solution. Define roadmaps with deadlines, milestones, stakeholders and risks. Analyse experiment results, adjust parameters or algorithms and propose alternatives. Develop a clear vision on how the solution will be used and evolve within the organisation. Work hands-on: run notebooks, build prototypes, test APIs, evaluate models and develop critical components. Work with modern tools such as Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio and other Azure components.

What you need to succeed:

  • Strong technical expertise in data and AI development, preferably within Azure. Experience with integration architectures, data lakes and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Ability to translate AI concepts into practical applications. Familiarity with complex organisational structures such as public-sector or large-enterprise environments. Excellent stakeholder-management skills: aligning different interests and fostering collaboration. Leadership that delivers results while building engagement and trust. Customer focus, hands-on mentality and commitment to tangible outcomes. Strong communication skills: able to adapt your message to your audience, from technical teams to management. Interest in exploring the field of multi-agent systems. Fluency in Dutch.

What are we offering:

  • You have an impactful role with visibility both at the client and internally within Cegeka.
  • Year after year, Whitelane Research confirms Cegeka as a reliable and leading IT services partner, securing an impressive first place in 2025 for Security, Application Services and Cloud & Infrastructure.
  • We ask a lot of (talents) from you. Fortunately, you also get a lot in return! Competence and character are essential to us, in addition to experience and ambitions. Cegeka continuously invests in talent management so that every employee can realize their potential.
  • We use a framework aimed at fair compensation, ensuring employees are paid based on their role, experience, and performance, regardless of gender or other non-job-related characteristics.  An electric car with charge card or a mobility budget, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, an interesting group and hospitalization insurance, a mobile phone subscription, a fixed expense allowance, a powerful laptop and the option to give your salary package your own accent thanks to our Flex Reward Plan.
  • Flexible working hours and a nice work/life balance.
  • A top team: in which new fresh ideas and initiatives are always welcome! Team events, happy hours and an increasingly legendary company party are also part of this.
  • Continuous Learning: Knowledge sharing meetings, participation in conferences and external training opportunities. Knowledge exchange, peer reviews, ARB, accelerators and continuous learning are key! Depending on your own interests and initiatives, Cegeka offers various horizontal and vertical career paths.
  • Depending on your own interests and initiatives, Cegeka offers various horizontal and vertical career paths.
  • We value sustainability by pursuing carbon neutrality with the electrification of our fleet and an environmentally friendly data center. We develop innovative solutions with a positive impact on the environment, people and society, and strive for an inclusive and diverse work environment where everyone is valued and heard.

Benefits

Market-compliant salary with attractive extra benefits.

Continuous learning via hackathons, innovation centers, events,...

Flexible working hours supporting your work/life balance.

Career growth with horizontal and vertical development paths.

Hybrid work model blending office and remote work efficiently.

Personal guidance from managers, coaches, and sparring partners.

ESG: lower emissions, foster inclusion and drive sustainability in IT.

Cegeka proudly holds the Top Employer certificate.

Team events, happy hours, sports events, and epic company festival.

Aspire to more: our promise to you!

At Cegeka, you have every opportunity to further develop yourself as a professional. Together, we achieve what you truly want to mean for our customers and colleagues. We warmly invite you to grow with us through an unparalleled variety of challenging and meaningful IT projects. Leave your mark on projects for high-profile clients where we truly make a difference. Aspire to more.


Intense, enjoyable, and deeply committed—that’s how we work, always together, in close cooperation with colleagues and clients. All within a culture driven by our core values: ownership, personal development, respect, and authenticity. Join us in shaping the next phase of a successful, fast-growing, and innovative international IT company.

Application flow

1. Apply

If the role is interesting apply, or get in touch with the dedicated recruiter for more details.

2. Assessment

Our Recruitment team will take a look at your application and let you know the next steps.

3. Meet us

Within two steps we will meet and we can discover together if we are a match on both sides.

4. Time to start!

Accepted our proposal? Great! We look forward to working with you.

Do you have any questions about this role?

Let's connect.

Rocco Bertels

rocco.bertels@cegeka.com