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.

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.

Strong knowledge of data architecture and data management
Broad understanding of IT landscapes within complex environments
Proven experience in defining and implementing data strategies
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Proven track record in developing technological strategy, combined with creating new and innovative business value
Ability to influence others and guide them in the right direction through informal leadership
Strategic thinker with strong prioritization skills, able to translate long-term goals into concrete and valuable short-term actions
Comfortable working in large, complex, and international environments
Ability to work with both legacy and modern data platforms, with an eye for opportunities to gradually phase out legacy systems
3+ years of relevant experience in a similar role

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:

A gross salary between €6.000 - €7.700 per month (based on 40 hours)
An annual bonus of max 10% of your annual salary, based on organizational goals
30 days of paid holiday (with the opportunity to buy or sell days of paid holiday) and 8% holiday allowance
You build up a pension through participation in the Pension Fund for the Food Industry
An (electric) lease car. We enjoy working together at the office, but you can also work partly from home
Room for entrepreneurship, growth and development. Not only in your job but also through our Jumbo Academy, online training through GoodHabitz and with a training budget
Daily fresh lunch in our Foodcafé, good coffee and fresh fruit. You can sport daily at our own Jumbo Gym for a small fee
Colleague discounts such as 10% off your groceries (up to €325 per year), participation in our collective health insurance or discounts through Benefits at Work

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"What's for dinner today?" You hear that question every day. And in your job at Jumbo, you help answer it. Working at Jumbo means working with people. A place where you feel at home, can be yourself, and where we work together toward shared goals. Your ideas to make customers, stores, and colleagues happy are more than welcome here. We believe our Jumbo colleagues make the difference: through who they are, what they do, and how they do it: with commitment, enthusiasm, and sometimes by doing things just a little differently. And we promise you: no two days are the same at Jumbo. There's plenty of room to learn and grow, both professionally and personally. So, what are you waiting for? Join our Jumbo family! You're very welcome here.

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Tell us who you are and why you would like to work at Jumbo.
Come to the first interview

We'd love to get to know each other better. This way, we can discover if this job is a good fit for you.
E-assessment

An online assessment to test your skills.
Come to the second interview

We'll go a little deeper and get to know each other better.
Employment contract

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Get to work!

We look forward to your first day.

Michael
von Harras

If you have any other questions about the job, don't hesitate to get in touch!

michael.vonharras@jumbo.com

06 - 14 76 76 16

Competence Architect - Data

Your job in a nutshell

What are we doing it for?

Your new team

Who do you work with?

What will you do?

Who are you?

What do you get from us?

Why Jumbo?

Applying for a job, how does that work?

Send us your application

Come to the first interview

E-assessment

Come to the second interview

Employment contract

Get to work!

Michael
von Harras

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Your job in a nutshell

What are we doing it for?

Your new team

Who do you work with?

What will you do?

Who are you?

What do you get from us?

Why Jumbo?

Applying for a job, how does that work?

Send us your application

Come to the first interview

E-assessment

Come to the second interview

Employment contract

Get to work!

Michael von Harras

Michael
von Harras