Data Architect - Data & AI
About the job
- A degree in data science, information technology, computer science, mathematics, engineering, business administration, or a related field.
- At least 7 years of data architecture and solutioning experience.
- Strong hands-on experience in multiple data and analytics competency areas, including data products, lakehouse architecture, data engineering, business intelligence, semantic models, data governance, and data quality.
- Strong understanding of data engineering concepts and technologies, including SQL, Python, Spark-based processing, orchestration, and metadata-driven engineering.
- Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, cataloging, lineage, data contracts, data quality, classification, access control, retention, auditability, and responsible artificial intelligence principles.
- Experience working with complex and diverse data sources, including structured, semi-structured, unstructured, streaming, sensor, equipment, and operational data.
- Experience with Databricks and cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Ability to understand business operations and commercial products.
- Ability to move quickly while maintaining architecture discipline and governance.
- Ability to collaborate and coordinate with multiple teams, stakeholders, and external partners.
- Stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to business leaders, product teams, engineers, and others.
- Coaching and influencing skills to guide architecture decisions, mentor technical teams, facilitate design discussions, and build data architecture maturity.
- Outcome-driven focus on business value, adoption, reuse, scalability, speed, cost efficiency, and measurable impact.
- Define and govern ASM's Enterprise Data Architecture Framework, including reference architecture, standards, guardrails, and reusable playbooks.
- Define how Databricks, SAP, Teamcenter, Salesforce, and Celonis fit together in ASM's target data architecture.
- Drive architectural consistency, reuse, and simplification across data platforms and business domains.
- Identify and reduce data architecture debt, duplicate capabilities, inconsistent data models, and unnecessary platform fragmentation.
- Lead architecture and peer reviews to ensure solution designs follow enterprise data architecture standards and deliver measurable business impact.
- Define architectural patterns for data products, integration, interoperability, and data sharing across domains.
- Design trusted data foundations supporting analytics, business intelligence, machine learning, generative artificial intelligence, agentic artificial intelligence, process intelligence, and automation use cases.
- Design scalable, secure, reusable, and cost-effective data architectures across lakehouse, warehouse, data lake, streaming, near-real-time, event-driven, operational, and analytical platforms.
- Embed security and compliance by design, including classification, retention, trade compliance, and access, in partnership with Cyber Security, AI Governance, Enterprise Architecture, and Legal.
- Ensure architecture-by-design for data quality, consistency, accuracy, completeness, lineage, integrity, observability, auditability, and explainability across all layers.
- Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, quality, services, and other teams to translate priorities into scalable solutions.
- Work with Digital Transformation Business Partners to translate business outcomes, process needs, analytical needs, and value opportunities into scalable and reusable data architecture solutions.
- Ensure architecture decisions are practical for teams to adopt, including documentation and reusable templates.
- Support establishing the vision for managing data as a business asset and maximizing the return on data assets.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously evolve ASM's data and AI capabilities.
- Support fostering a data-driven culture, related competencies, and data literacy across ASM.
- Relevant professional training or certifications.
- Certifications in Databricks, data architecture, enterprise architecture, data management, AI/ML platforms, data governance, or Agile.
- Experience with Teamcenter, Salesforce, SAP systems such as SAP S/4HANA, Celonis, Incorta, or Microsoft Power BI.
- Experience working in a semiconductor or high-tech manufacturing environment.
About the company
ASM International designs and supplies equipment and technologies for semiconductor fabrication, focusing on thin-film deposition processes such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD). Its products are used in making microchips by depositing ultra-thin material layers with precise control at the atomic level, enabling smaller and more powerful devices. The company built a global footprint through operations in the Netherlands, the US, Hong Kong, and Japan, and separated ASML Lithography (a joint venture with Philips) to focus on deposition while ASML develops photolithography systems. In recent years, ASM has sharpened its strategy around ALD, a process that creates uniformly thin layers one atomic layer at a time, allowing continued scaling of semiconductor devices. The goal is to be a core supplier of deposition technology and tools that enable chip manufacturers to produce smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient semiconductors.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Almere, Netherlands
Founded
1968
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue reached €1.0 billion, up 24% year over year.
- Management guided Q3 2026 revenue to €1.1 billion and H2 above H1 by 20%.
- 2027 revenue should exceed €4.6 billion, driven by AI infrastructure spending.
What critics are saying
- China mature-logic demand depends on export-control distortions, not durable secular growth.
- Local competitors in China already pressure pricing and threaten share in 2026.
- Applied Materials and NAURA can displace ASM if customers standardize alternative deposition stacks.
What makes ASM International unique
- ASM owns more than 55% of ALD market, with record Q2 2026 ALD sales.
- Its 2nm and 1.4nm wins embed ASM in leading-edge logic ramps.
- Spares and services grew 34% in Q2 2026, creating recurring revenue.
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Advanced packaging shifts toward system integration as AI renews semiconductor talent appeal. , Singapore Sep 29, 2026, 11:59 0 Credit: Michael Lee At Singapore's Innovate Together 2026 conference on September 25, executives and researchers from A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics (IME), KLA, ASM International, the National University of Singapore (NUS), the SHINE Centre, and ASMPT discussed how... Picks for you
The global semiconductor market reached record sales of $403.3 billion in the second quarter of 2026, rising 35.1% sequentially, driven by artificial intelligence and advanced computing demand. June sales climbed 123.6% year-over-year to $134.5 billion. Four chip stocks appear well-positioned to benefit from the AI boom. Analog Devices is experiencing broad-based recovery with AI-related data centre activity expanding across optical and power applications. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company maintained 73% market share, supported by robust AI demand. Semtech is benefiting from rising AI data centre networking demand as 800G remains active. ASM International holds a market share exceeding 55% in ALD technology, with management expecting second-half revenues to rise more than 20%. All four companies show strong growth trajectories, with consensus estimates suggesting revenue increases of 34% to 41% and earnings growth of 55% to 104% for 2026.
ASM International NV reported record Q2 2026 revenue of EUR1 billion, marking a 24% year-on-year increase at constant currency and exceeding guidance of EUR980 million. The semiconductor equipment manufacturer achieved a gross margin of 51.9% and an adjusted operating margin of 33%. Equipment sales grew 22% year-on-year at constant currency, driven by record atomic layer deposition (ALD) sales. Spares and services revenue surged 34% year-on-year at constant currency. The company generated record free cash flow of EUR355 million, supported by strong profitability and improved working capital management. Cash position stood at EUR1.2 billion at quarter end. ASM projects Q3 revenue of EUR1.1 billion and expects second-half revenue to exceed first-half results by over 20%. The company now anticipates 2026 revenue will surpass EUR4 billion, above its previous guidance range.
ASM International forecast third-quarter revenue of about €1.1 billion ($1.25 billion) at constant exchange rates, plus or minus 5%, exceeding analysts' average estimate of €994.5 million. The Dutch semiconductor equipment maker cited strong demand from customers investing in artificial intelligence infrastructure. AI-related spending has helped offset weakness in automotive, PC and memory markets. Chief Executive Hichem M'Saad said the demand environment remained highly favourable in the second quarter, driven by sustained investment in AI infrastructure to support rapidly expanding compute workloads. Europe's second-largest semiconductor equipment maker reported second-quarter revenue of €1 billion, above analysts' expectations of €977.7 million.
ASM International has named telecom executive Chris Figee as its incoming Chief Financial Officer, subject to shareholder approval at an extraordinary general meeting in 2027. The appointment comes as the semiconductor equipment maker's shares trade at €964.4, close to analyst fair value estimates of around €1,026. The stock has delivered strong returns, with year-to-date gains of 74.14% and five-year total shareholder returns of 250.72%. Analysts attribute the company's valuation to expanding demand for advanced logic nodes driven by AI and high-performance computing requirements. However, risks remain if China-related restrictions tighten or key customers delay equipment spending. The shares recently declined 1.15% in one day and 0.76% over seven days.