Architect (Enterprise Architect) – Belgium (Hybrid)

Hive-X; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hive-X is looking for an IT enterprise architect to design and maintain a coherent, secure, and scalable information system that aligns with business needs. This role involves strategic and technical tasks, ensuring that IT projects support organizational objectives. Key responsibilities include collaborating with teams, translating business needs into technology solutions, and providing architectural support. The position offers a hybrid work model with a minimum of 2 days on-site per week.

Responsibilities

• Designs and maintains the overall vision of the information system.
• Ensures alignment between IT strategies and business objectives.
• Translates business issues into technological capabilities.
• Guarantees consistency between IT projects and overall strategy.
• Supports development teams with architectural understanding.
• Coordinates the Architects team and documents processes.

Job description

The IT enterprise architect (EA) designs and maintains the overall vision of the information system so that it meets the needs of the company, while remaining coherent, secure and scalable.

Its role is both strategic (aligning IT and business) and technical (structuring the architecture).

• Ensures that the information system supports the business objectives and long-term vision of the organization in connection with the IT strategy, SIO (Strategy & Innovation Office) and DMO (Demand Management Office).
• Translates business issues into technological capabilities and defines a roadmap that prioritizes initiatives according to their value and risk in collaboration with the DMO (Demand Management Office).
• Guarantees consistency between IT projects and the overall strategy to optimize investments in connection with SIO (Strategy & Innovation Office).
• Ensures that new solutions fit into the existing business architecture from a technical, commercial and user perspective.
• Supports the teams involved in the development process and provides them with an understanding of the architectural functioning of products and services.
• Listens to Business and Tech teams in order to understand their needs; Functionally coordinates the Architects team; Documents processes, procedures and drafts documents relating to the overall IT architecture in order to ensure the operational sustainability of the solutions developed and their integration; Interacts with the Team Leaders of the Dev and Infra teams during the deployment phase, answering their specific functional and technical questions; Actively participates in the various processes related to the activity: development of specifications, evaluation of solutions, alignment of activities in relation to the budget and schedules, etc.
• Hybrid work with minimum 2 days a week on site.

Required Skills