ARCHITECT SOLUTION SENIOR

OneSource Consulting; Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

OneSource Consulting is seeking an IT Solution Architect to analyze, design, document, and supervise IT solutions across the full lifecycle of portfolio initiatives. You will map current state, define preconditions, and translate needs into secure, scalable, and manageable solutions.

The role requires strong proficiency in architecture modeling (Archimate, TOGAF, UML) and experience with cloud/hybrid architectures, APIs, and container platforms such as Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect translating business needs into technical designs.
• Ability to guide delivery teams during implementation and migration.
• Experience in architecture diagramming and documenting design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Monitor coherence between business needs, requirements and tech solutions.
• Propose alternatives with risk/cost/dependency insights.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security and standards.
• Support delivery teams during analysis, development and deployment.
• Document decisions and ensure traceability from requirements to solutions.
• Report architectural risks and technical debt to governance bodies.

Skills

Solution architecture

Requirements translation

Delivery guidance

Architecture governance

Cloud/hybrid architecture

Microservices

API management

ArchiMate

TOGAF

Kubernetes

Azure architecture

Event-driven architecture

Tools

Archimate

TOGAF

UML

Sparx EA

Kubernetes

Azure

Kafka

SAP CPI (PO/PI)

Job description

WORK REGIME :100% (FULL TIME- HYBRID) 2 TO 3 DAYS ONSITE PER A WEEK

JOB DESCRIPTION

• The IT Solution Architect is responsible for analyzing, designing, documenting and supervising IT solutions over the entire lifecycle of a (portfolio) initiative. The architect maps out the existing situation, identifies architectural preconditions and translates the needs of the organization into a future-oriented, secure, scalable and manageable solution.
• He/she also secures this architecture in SAP LeanIX and monitors it over the entire lifecycle of the applications and integrations.

THE SOLUTION ARCHITECT

• Monitors the coherence between business needs, functional requirements and technical solutions;
• Proposes solution alternatives and provides insight into the advantages and disadvantages, risks, costs and dependencies;
• Ensures that proposed solutions are in line with the enterprise architecture, security guidelines, technological standards and strategic roadmap;
• Supports delivery teams during analysis, development, implementation, migration and commissioning;
• Documents architectural decisions and ensures traceability between requirements, design choices and realized solutions;
• Reports architectural risks, deviations and technical debt to the relevant governance bodies.
• A Solution Architect should not only deliver a high-level design. Typical responsibilities also include architecture diagramming, documentation of design decisions, analysis of trade-offs, validation via proof of concepts, and guidance during implementation. He/she also has an eye for a 'composable architecture', so that the autonomy of the delivery teams remains high.

SKILLS

• Demonstrable experience as a Solution Architect
• Demonstrable experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical designs
• Proven experience guiding delivery/product teams during implementation
• Proven experience with integration architecture
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Modelling Techniques (Archimate, Togaf, UML, Sparx EA)
• The completed template proves sufficient experience with cloud or hybrid architectures
• During the interview, the candidate can demonstrate that he/she has strong communication skills, analytical skills and the ability to clearly substantiate architectural choices
• Fill in the attached template describing the experiences with cloud or hybrid architectures
• Demonstrable experience with API management
• Proven experience with ArchiMate
• Proven experience with business continuity and disaster recovery
• Proven experience with container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Demonstrable experience with event-driven architecture
• Demonstrated experience guiding proof of concepts to compare different conceptual architectures
• Proven experience with legacy modernization
• Proven experience with microservices architecture
• Demonstrated experience with TOGAF or an equivalent enterprise architecture framework
• Demonstrable experience with different integration architectures (ASB, Kafka, SAP CPI (PO/PI)
• The candidate has relevant additional Azure (architecture) certifications and adds them here