Business & Solutions Architect

WorxInvest; Antwerpen; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mobility budget

Group and hospital insurance

Meal vouchers

Flex Income Plan

Job summary

HR Pay Solutions is seeking a Business & Solution Architect to translate strategic ideas into practical architectures and roadmaps. You will connect business needs with technology, shaping operating models, applications and data architectures for major initiatives.

You will assess the landscape, identify reusable capabilities, and guide build-versus-buy decisions while ensuring alignment with risk, compliance and cost considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Business Engineering, IT, CS, Economics or related field, or equivalent expertise.
• 5 years of relevant experience in architecture: business, solution, or enterprise.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills in Dutch and English.
• Experience with software selection, RFPs, vendor assessments and build-vs-buy decisions.
• Experience in financial services, payments, fintech or regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategy into coherent business, process, functional and solution architectures.
• Design target operating models clarifying processes, responsibilities, users and systems.
• Define solution, application, integration and data architectures for initiatives.
• Assess current landscape, identify reusable capabilities and gaps.
• Guide RFPs and vendor selection with substantiated recommendations.
• Explain how initiatives fit into broader ecosystem and dependencies.

Skills

Business architecture

Functional architecture

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder facilitation

Dutch language

English language

Vendor assessments

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Business/IT/CS or related

Tools

Architecture governance

Job description

As a Business & Solution Architect, you translate strategic business ideas into coherent, practical and future-oriented solutions. You connect business direction, processes, organization and technology, turning high-level ambitions into concrete operating models, functional architectures, solution designs and implementation roadmaps.

You will take ownership of high-impact projects that support the organization's strategic ambitions. By connecting business needs with technology solutions, you will help drive transformation, optimize processes and create lasting value across the company.

Company

WorxInvest is a long-term investment company focused on sustainable value creation. With a diversified portfolio across long-term investments, private equity and real assets, we actively support companies in building lasting growth.

We operate with a clear philosophy: long-term commitment, active ownership and disciplined investing. Our team works at the intersection of strategy, finance and entrepreneurship, contributing directly to investment decisions and long-term value creation.

HR Pay Solutions is a regulated payment institution operating at the intersection of payroll, HR services, and payments. We provide secure, compliant, and efficient payment flows for clients and partners across Europe. To support our continued growth, increasing transaction volumes, and rising requirements around resilience, compliance, and operational excellence, we are investing in the further development and professionalization of our IT and Business Operations organization. This supports our ambition to become a leading player in HR payments across Europe.

About the role

• Translate business strategy and high-level ideas into coherent business, process, functional and solution architectures that can be implemented in practice.
• Design target operating models that clarify how processes, responsibilities, users and systems work together, including who does what, through which process and in which application.
• Define solution, application, integration & data architectures for new initiatives and projects, specifying which applications and components support which goals, users and use cases.
• Assess the current landscape, identify reusable capabilities, gaps and required changes, and turn these findings into clear architectural choices and implementation roadmaps.
• Make balanced build-versus-buy decisions, taking into account strategic fit, time to market, total cost, maintainability, scalability, security and operational impact.
• When external solutions are required, define functional and solution requirements, support market exploration and guide RFP and vendor-selection processes through to a substantiated recommendation.
• Understand and explain how each initiative fits within the broader functional, organizational and technical ecosystem, including dependencies and consequences for processes, teams, costs, controls, compliance and technology.
• Guide stakeholders towards informed decisions by ensuring that relevant options and their implications, trade-offs and risks are identified, understood and explicitly accepted.
• Define, create and maintain the architectural views, principles and documentation needed to help business, operations and technology teams understand, implement, manage and evolve the architecture.
• Safeguard the long-term quality of the landscape, with particular attention to maintainability, extensibility, usability, performance, integration, security, resilience & resilience governance.

Your profile

• You hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Economics or a related field, or have built equivalent expertise through experience.
• You have 5 years of relevant experience in business architecture, functional architecture, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, business analysis or a comparable role. You are able to understand strategic business ambitions and translate them into structured process, operating-model, application and solution designs.
• You combine conceptual thinking with pragmatism. You can move comfortably between a high-level vision and the detail required to make solutions implementable.
• You understand application landscapes, integrations and system responsibilities, without needing to be the deepest technical specialist in every technology.
• You are a strong facilitator and communicator (fluently in Dutch and English) who can align business, operations, technology, finance, risk, compliance and external partners.
• You make complex choices understandable, challenge constructively and create clarity around decisions, dependencies, ownership and consequences.
• Experience with software selection, RFP processes, vendor assessments, build-versus-buy decisions and architecture governance is a strong asset.
• Experience in financial services, payments, payment cards, fintech or another regulated and transaction-intensive environment is considered a plus.

Our offer

Join HR Pay Solutions in a highly visible role where strategy meets execution. From new ideas to implementation, you will shape the processes, operating models and technology solutions that drive our future growth and success.

We offer an attractive salary - based on your experience and achievements - and fringe benefits including a mobility budget, group and hospital insurance and meal vouchers. In addition, the Flex Income Plan allows you to tailor your salary package to your personal needs.

You will join an innovative organisation where personal development and high performance go hand in hand. We offer a hybrid working model, with an average of 3 days per week spent collaborating at our Antwerp office.