ICT Architect Senior (Team 4/4) – Belgium (Hybrid)

HIVE-X; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Familiehulp is seeking an ICT Architect to oversee the coherence and quality of ICT solutions across Family Assistance, advising the Architecture Council and project teams with clear guidelines, decision proposals and coaching.

The role focuses on coherence between applications, integrations, data, infrastructure and security-by-design, defines integration principles, tests designs for reliability and security, and guides technology choices such as cloud and hybrid hosting.

Qualifications

• Experience in ICT architecture across applications, data and security-by-design.
• Ability to advise on architecture standards and project alignment.
• Knowledge of cloud/hybrid hosting and vendor lock-in considerations.

Responsibilities

• Monitor coherence and quality of ICT solutions within Family Assistance.
• Advise Architecture Council and project teams with guidelines and recommendations.
• Define integration principles and test designs for reliability and security.
• Guide technology choices including cloud and hybrid hosting.

Skills

Application and solution architecture

Architectural assessment and decision

Coaching and architectural governance

Integration and platform thinking

Infrastructure and operability

Security and compliance design

Job description

ABOUT US Familiehulp is a leading Flemish healthcare provider that offers support at every stage of life, with the aim of improving the quality of life at home. They are active in childcare, family care, maternity care, domestic help (with service vouchers) and elderly care. FUNCTION The ICT Architect monitors the coherence and quality of ICT solutions within Family Assistance and advises the Architecture Council and project teams with clear guidelines, decision proposals and coaching, so that implementations are safe, reusable and future-proof. The role supports the Architecture Council by helping to guide ICT architecture in a broad sense and testing architectural choices within projects. The focus is on the coherence between applications, integrations, data, infrastructure and security-by-design. The ICT Architect assesses project proposals for their architectural fit with the target architecture and standards and provides written advice with recommendations, risks, alternatives and preconditions. You define and monitor integration principles, test integration designs for reliability, error handling, monitoring, security and version management and assess solutions on, among other things, functional fit, extensibility, integration options, data model, reporting and vendor lock-in. You also advise on infrastructure and technology choices such as cloud, hybrid, identity, hosting and operational manageability. You support IT experts with solution designs, high-level designs, integration flows and architectural considerations and contribute to the development of standards, reference architectures and minimum documentation requirements. The ICT Architect is expected to provide architectural advice, assessments of project proposals, integration principles, preconditions for implementations, reference architectures, standards, documentation requirements and knowledge sharing that are directly useful for the Architecture Council and for ongoing projects. The output must contribute to coherence, standardization, reusability and future-proofing of ICT solutions and to a more mature architecture within Family Assistance. This mission is extendable subject to customer approval.

Required Skills

Application and solution architecture analysis, Architectural assessment and decision making, Coaching and architectural governance, Integration and platform thinking, Understanding infrastructure and operational manageability, Security and compliance thinking in design