IS Life Solution Architect

NextLink Group; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

NextLink Group is seeking a Solution Architect in Bruxelles, Belgium, to design end-to-end IT solutions aligned with business needs and architectural principles. You will oversee implementation from launch to production, ensuring alignment among stakeholders in a hybrid environment.

Key duties include translating complex requirements, collaborating with IS Life teams and cross-functional units, and upholding architecture standards across projects. 3+ years in solution architecture is required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in solution architecture or a related field.
• Strong understanding of DDD concepts and integrating disparate systems.
• Ability to translate business needs into robust technical designs.
• Experience presenting to architecture boards and guiding governance.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions aligned with business needs and architectural principles.
• Oversee implementation from project launch to production while ensuring stakeholder alignment.
• Bridge Business and IT, translating complex requirements into robust designs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transition architecture into implementation.
• Document architectures and present solutions to the architecture board.
• Define short-, medium-, and long-term IT development visions.

Skills

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Asynchronous integrations

Solution architecture

Stakeholder management

Job description

Bruxelles, Belgium | Posted on 10/09/2026

In a highly diverse environment, we areseeking a Solution Architect to assist us in designing and creating solutions to implement our numerous ongoing and upcoming initiatives.

As a Solution Architect within IS Life,you will design end-to-end solutions aligned with business needs and architectural principles, while also overseeing their implementation. You will be involved from the project launch phase through to production, ensuring alignment among all stakeholders.

You will work within a hybrid landscape:

- A significant portion of applications still runs in a Micro Focus COBOL environment.

- At the same time, we are fully committed to modernization and are transitioning to .NET and Angular environments, applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) architectural principles.

Tasks

• Solution design: you analyze needs, propose various options, and design pragmatic, sustainable, and future-oriented solutions in accordance with AG Insurance’s IT architectural standards.
• Bridging Business and IT: you translate complex business requirements into robust solutions.
• Stakeholder alignment (IT and Business): you build consensus and foster collaboration from the very start of projects.
• You collaborate closely with the business to identify its true needs, as well as with other IS teams within the department, cross-functional IS teams (Application Technology, Architecture & Strategy), and I&O teams to transition from the architecture phase to the implementation phase.
• Governance and documentation: you focus on solution quality (and adherence to standards) and documentation, and you present your architectural solutions to the AG Insurance architecture board.
• You define a short-, medium-, and long-term vision for IT system development.
• You challenge and validate proposed solutions in collaboration with the technical architecture team.
• You take into account the costs associated with implementing and maintaining/running your solution.
• You are willing to question the status quo and introduce new ideas.
• You ensure that architecture standards are upheld in your solutions.

Profile

• Minimum 3 years of experience
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD) concepts and asynchronous integrations
• Interest in technological innovation
• Solution-oriented
• Able to synthesize large amounts of information