ICT Solution Architect

XPLUS Consultants bv; Town of Belgium (WI); Sur place; EUR 80 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading IT consultancy in Belgium seeks an experienced ICT Solution Architect who will design scalable and cost-efficient IT solutions. Your role includes translating business needs into concrete architectural designs, ensuring coherence across applications, data, and integrations. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of IT experience, with strong knowledge of solution architecture and integration patterns. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills are crucial for this position.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in IT, with several years in solution architecture roles.
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns like REST and SOAP.
• Proven stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.

Responsabilités

• Analyze requirements and translate them into end-to-end solution designs.
• Develop high-level and detailed architecture designs.
• Govern and implement architectural principles and reference architecture.

Connaissances

ICT architecture and solution design

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Excellent communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Formation

Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Outils

SOAP

REST

Microservices

Data modeling

Description du poste

As an ICT Solution Architect, you are responsible for designing and delivering scalable, future-proof, and cost-efficient IT solutions aligned with the client’s business strategy. You translate business needs into concrete architectural designs & solutions, whereby you’ll need to ensure coherence across applications, data & integrations. Moreover you’ll need to take organizational impact of the designs & solution into account.

Description

You act as a “bridge builder” between various business stakeholders, development teams, and IT operations within customer’s environment on one hand, and with its stakeholders on the other hand. You ensure that solutions comply with architectural guidelines, quality standards, and business requirements.

Your responsibilities will be to:

• Analyze requirements and translate them into end-to-end solution designs
• Develop high-level and detailed architecture designs
• Define solution architecture (applications, integrations & data)
• Govern and implement architectural principles & reference architecture
• Collaborate with and advise teams on implementation of technical decisions/designs
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and solutions
• Identify and mitigate technical risks
• Support the development of business cases and project charters resulting from projects
• Document architectural designs and communicate them to stakeholders
• Advise the portfolio manager on prioritization based on technological impact and dependencies

Contribution / Impact

In this role, you contribute to:

• Delivering consistent and future-oriented IT solutions
• Reducing complexity and technical debt
• Increasing delivery speed and quality
• Enabling digital transformation and innovation

Criteria

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent through experience)
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in IT, including several years in solution architecture roles
• Strong knowledge of and experience with ICT architecture and solution design
• Experience with integration patterns (REST, SOAP, messaging, ESB, microservices, etc.)
• Solid understanding and best-practice application of data architecture, data modeling, and data platforms
• Strong analytical skills
• Proven stakeholder management and influencing capabilities
• Strategic mindset combined with strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills (ability to align business and IT)
• Result-driven and pragmatic
• Language skills: Dutch (mandatory) and English (optional)

Nice to have

• 5+ years of work experience with Solution Architecture
• 2+ years of work experience with SOAP
• Authorized to work in Belgium
• 3+ years of work experience with Microservices