Domain Architect – Corporate, AI and Market (SRQ109749)

TiTANS België; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 110.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

TiTANS België is seeking a Domain Architect to join our Belgian IT Architecture team, focusing on the Corporate, AI, and Market domains. You will translate business capabilities into IT roadmaps and ensure security and resilience while aligning with regulatory obligations.

We expect a pragmatic bridge between business initiatives and robust IT realizations, working at strategy-execution intersection to deliver scalable technical blueprints and drive architectural governance across the

Qualifikationen

• Deep knowledge of TOGAF and ArchiMate with pragmatic application.
• Hands-on experience with Domain‑Driven Design and Agile Architecture.
• Strong background in Corporate domains and energy/utility processes.
• Awareness of AI governance, data and security considerations.

Aufgaben

• Translate organizational capabilities into actionable IT roadmaps.
• Define and enforce domain principles while ensuring governance and ARB alignment.
• Maintain portfolio clarity and opportunities for reuse to reduce cost.
• Provide strategic advisory on trade‑offs and domain roadmaps.
• Govern asset data models, integration patterns, and information architecture.
• Embed security, resilience, and regulatory compliance in architectures.

Kenntnisse

TOGAF

ArchiMate

DDD

Event Storming

Agile Architecture

AI governance

Energy sector

Security & Compliance

Jobbeschreibung

Domain Architect – Corporate, AI and Market (SRQ109749)

Excited to work on a project for a key Belgian player in the energy landscape? The Belgian and European energy landscape is in full swing. Did you know that the organization plays a crucial role in this? As part of a European transmission system operator, the organization ensures the reliability and sustainability of the electricity supply in our country.

Side-by-side with other Contingent Workers and staff, you will play a part in building a sustainable, green and reliable energy infrastructure that stimulates economic growth and reduces our ecological footprint. Only together can we make the biggest impact possible! We believe in the power of diversity: we are convinced that an inclusive and diverse work environment leads to more innovation, creativity and better results.

The organization is seeking a high-impact IT Domain Architect to join our Belgian IT Architecture team. This role is specifically focused on the Corporate, AI, Market business domain, which focusses a broad business domain encompassing the enterprise’s corporate capabilities and supporting functions, Artificial Intelligence, a strategic technology domain focused on advancing and governing AI capabilities across the organization and on how the organization interacts with the wider energy market.

As the Domain IT Architect, your mission is to ensure the domain’s IT landscape is coherent, secure, operable, and future‑proof, enabling safe and reliable grid operations while aligning with the organization’s strategy and regulatory obligations.

We aren't just looking for a theorist; we need a pragmatic bridge builder. You will be the vital link between ambitious business initiatives and robust IT realizations. You will work at the intersection of strategy and execution, transforming high-level business capabilities into tangible, scalable technical blueprints.

Key Responsibilities

As a Domain Architect, your mission is to ensure the domain's IT landscape is coherent, future-proof, and aligned with the organization’s strategic goals.

• Architectural Translation & Design: Form a strategic "tandem" with Business Architecture to translate organizational capabilities into actionable IT roadmaps. Convert complex business processes into detailed IT Blueprints that guide development and implementation teams.
• Standards & Governance: Define and enforce domain-specific principles while ensuring alignment with Group and Local principles, standards and reference architectures. Present, justify, and defend architectural designs before the Architectural Review Board (ARB). Formalize logic through Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) to ensure long‑term maintainability. Guard against architectural drift and unmanaged technical debt. Monitor SLA/OLA performance and report domain-level risks.
• Portfolio Management: Maintain a single source of truth for the Asset IT application and platform portfolio within the Enterprise Architecture Repository. Conduct regular portfolio assessments (e.g. Gartner TIME, 6R), factoring in operational criticality. This in close collaboration with Business and IT stakeholders (IT Application Managers). Identify opportunities for application/platform reuse to reduce technical debt and operational costs. Work with solution architects within the IT Domain to ensure solutions are viable across build, run, evolve, and retire phases, and ensure alignment with domain strategy and quality standards.
• Strategic Advisory: Conduct trade‑off analyses (e.g. cost, risk, complexity, time to value) to facilitate executive decision‑making. Perform peer reviews of Solution Architecture deliverables for Asset Domain consistency. Develop and maintain domain roadmaps anticipating regulatory, technological, and energy‑system evolution. Advise senior stakeholders on long term architectural implications of asset strategy decisions.
• Data, Integration & Information Architecture: Work with Data Architects and Solution Architects to govern asset and operational data models, integration patterns, and data ownership. Work with Enterprise Architects and Platform Architects to ensure interoperability between enterprise systems, control systems, and analytics platforms. Coordinate with Data Architecture to ensure semantic consistency and data quality.
• Security, Resilience & Compliance: Work with security and compliance teams to ensure that security, availability, and resilience requirements are embedded into Asset Domain architectures and ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, safety, and cyber obligations. Define architectural measures for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Requirements:

You are a delivery-focused professional who thrives in a dynamic environment where technical rigor, operational reliability, and business agility intersect.

Core Competencies:

• The Trusted Advisor: You possess exceptional communication skills, allowing you to navigate conversations with both C‑suite stakeholders, operational leaders, Project and Product leadership (Project Leaders, IT Application Managers, Product Owners), and deep tech engineering teams, and to articulate complex tradeoffs clearly.
• Strategic Mindset: You don't just design for today; you shape architectures that are scalable, compliant, resilient, and operable across their full lifecycle, balancing innovation and long term sustainability.
• Collaborative Leadership: You are a natural collaborator who actively works with Business, Domain, Solution, Security, Platform, and Enterprise, Information and Data architects.
• Governance & Decision Ownership: You are comfortable operating within architectural governance, defending architectural positions, accepting accountability for domain‑level decisions, and ensuring adherence to standards without compromising delivery.

Technical & Professional Experience:

• Architecture Frameworks & Modelling: Deep knowledge of TOGAF and ArchiMate, with the ability to apply them pragmatically in delivery contexts.
• Modern IT Analysis & Design Practices: Hands‑on experience with Domain‑Driven Design (DDD), Event Storming, and Agile Architecture methodologies.
• Industry Expertise: Strong background in Corporate business capabilities, processes, and supporting systems across functions such as Finance, HR, Procurement, and Corporate Services the Energy and Utilities sector, with specific exposure to Electricity market facilitation and system services (e.g. Outage planning, scheduling, balancing services, voltage services, etc.).
• Analytical Rigor: Familiarity with evaluation methods such as ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) and Gartner TIME.

Industry & Domain Expertise

• Background in Corporate domain and SAP product
• Knowledgeable and experienced with AI target architectures, reference architectures, architectural patterns, AI governance (e.g. EU AI Act), Integration architecture (e.g. MCP)
• Knowledge of Energy Market facilitation services is a plus.
• Awareness of IT/OT integration, operational constraints, and safety‑critical systems typical of a TSO context.
• Understanding of architectural implications related to security, availability, regulatory compliance, and operational risk in critical‑infrastructure environments.
• Awareness of Corporate business capabilities, processes, and supporting systems across functions such as Finance, HR, Procurement, and Corporate Services.

Native‑level proficiency in Dutch, French, or German, and professional proficiency in English. Knowledge of one or more of the other languages is considered an asset.

Additional information:

• Onsite presence: By default, a physical presence on site is required for 2 days per week.

There’s something electric in the air with this mission!

What makes this mission attractive?

• An interesting project at the reference within the energy sector: the organization encourages innovation and collaboration. Within the company you will be at the forefront of the energy transition, and you will have the chance to contribute to ground‑breaking technologies designed to accelerate this transition. It is a one‑of‑a‑kind opportunity to demonstrate your skills and develop further your competences within this project.
• Focus on well‑being at work: we put maximum effort into a positive work culture in which your well‑being is central.
• A diverse team of co‑workers: the organization put high value on diversity and inclusion. You will join a diverse and passionate team that enjoys sharing knowledge and leading the way towards a more sustainable future together.