Banking Domain Architect

Neurho Solutions SRL; Neder-Over-Heembeek; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Neurho Solutions SRL seeks a senior Banking Domain Architect to translate business needs into coherent functional, technical, and application architectures, focusing on API design and data modelling for channels serving individuals, enterprises, and third parties. Responsibilities include defining reference architectures, designing secure APIs, and ensuring coherence with enterprise standards.

The role requires experience in architecture modelling (Archimate) and strong governance, risk

Qualifications

• 5+ years in functional/technical/application/enterprise architecture.
• Ability to model current and target states with ArchiMate.
• Design data models and secure APIs for multi-channel products.
• Understand architectural urbanization rules to simplify systems.
• Balance architecture expertise with practical project management and delivery coordination.
• Work effectively in Scrum teams and contribute to sprint outcomes.
• Communicate clearly with business and IT stakeholders and negotiate pragmatic decisions.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into documented architectures aligned with standards.
• Define and maintain reference architectures, domain blueprints and rules.
• Design data models and secure APIs for mobile, web and third-party products.
• Assess architectures and validate implementations before/after production release.
• Present architecture options and best practices to stakeholders and committees.
• Track technology developments and apply them where appropriate.

Skills

Archimate

Functional architecture

Technical architecture

Application architecture

Data modelling

API design

Security

Scrum

Stakeholder communication

Risk awareness

Tools

Archi

Job description

A major Belgian bank is evolving the IT architecture behind its individual and business customer channels, including mobile, web and products exposed to third parties. This senior Banking Domain Architect role translates business needs into coherent functional, technical and application architecture, with particular focus on API design and data modelling. The scope also covers core banking domains such as cards, payments and accounts.

The mission

Within the Channels Individuals and Channels Enterprises landscape, the architecture must remain coherent, maintainable and aligned with enterprise strategy, domain blueprints and group standards. The work covers internal developments and package solutions, while accounting for technology evolution, risk, cost and delivery constraints. Architectural urbanization rules, reference architectures and clear application viewpoints provide the framework for decision-making.

Your responsibilities

• Translate business needs into documented functional, technical and application architectures that align with enterprise standards.
• Define and maintain reference architectures, domain blueprints, architectural principles and urbanization rules.
• Design data models and secure APIs that support mobile, web and third-party channel products.
• Assess project and asset architectures, and validate the implementation of architectural decisions before and after production release.
• Present architecture options, decisions and good practices to business stakeholders, IT teams and architectural committees.
• Track relevant technology developments, including cloud capabilities, and incorporate them into architecture studies where appropriate.

Your profile

Essential skills

• Bring at least 5 years of relevant experience in functional architecture, technical architecture, application architecture or enterprise architecture.
• Apply architectural modelling techniques, including ArchiMate, to communicate current and target states clearly.
• Design application architectures, data models and APIs, with attention to security, maintainability and integration.
• Understand architectural urbanization rules and use them to support simplification and coherence across systems.
• Combine architecture expertise with practical project management and delivery coordination.
• Work effectively in Scrum teams, contributing to shared sprint outcomes and continuous improvement.
• Communicate clearly with business and IT stakeholders, and negotiate practical decisions while remaining analytical, accurate and risk aware.

Preferred skills

• Experience with Enterprise Data Modelling and enterprise architecture tools such as Archi.
• Understanding of cloud architecture and cloud-based design options.
• Knowledge of the cards domain, payment services or account-related banking capabilities.

Languages

• Dutch: fluent, with notions of French, or French: fluent, with notions of Dutch.
• English: fluent.