IT Domain Architect

ITS Group Benelux; Brussel; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hospitalization insurance

Group insurance

Dental insurance

20 days statutory paid vacations

Company car / mobility package

Résumé du poste

ITS Group Benelux in Brussels seeks an experienced IT Domain Architect to lead the Corporate, AI and Market domain architecture, ensuring coherence, security and future-proofing across the IT landscape.

You will translate business capabilities into roadmaps and blueprints, govern standards, and collaborate with enterprise, data and security architects while supporting AI governance and alignment with enterprise strategy.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional IT experience.
• Experience in enterprise architecture and domain modelling.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance and industry standards.
• Familiarity with SAP environments and AI governance is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Define and maintain IT blueprints supporting business capabilities.
• Prepare and present architecture reviews to governance boards.
• Create Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) and maintain architecture repositories.
• Conduct portfolio assessments using Gartner TIME and 6R frameworks.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Platform, Security, Solution and Data Architects.
• Advise executive and senior stakeholders on architectural impacts and roadmaps.
• Define integration and interoperability patterns across systems.

Description du poste

Great assignments await you with our key account clients in rich and varied environments

We are looking for an experienced IT Domain Architect to lead the architecture of the Corporate, AI and Market domain, ensuring that the IT landscape remains coherent, secure, resilient, operable and future-proof. The role acts as a strategic bridge between business and IT, translating business capabilities into actionable architecture roadmaps and technical blueprints while ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, governance standards, regulatory obligations and operational requirements.

The architect will drive domain architecture governance, manage the application and platform portfolio, define long-term roadmaps, support executive decision-making through architectural trade‑off analyses, and ensure alignment across business, enterprise, solution, security, platform, data and information architecture disciplines. The position also requires expertise in AI architecture and governance, corporate business domains, integration architecture, SAP environments, and critical infrastructure contexts.

Your missions:

Domain Architecture & Business Alignment

• Translate business capabilities into IT roadmaps in partnership with Business Architecture.
• Convert business processes into target architectures and implementation blueprints.
• Ensure alignment between business strategy, technology investments and enterprise objectives.
• Maintain a coherent and future‑proof IT landscape across the domain.

Architecture Governance & Standards

• Define and enforce domain architecture principles, standards and reference architectures.
• Ensure compliance with local and group architecture guidelines.
• Present and defend architectural decisions before the Architectural Review Board (ARB).
• Prevent architectural drift and control technical debt.
• Monitor SLA and OLA performance and report architecture‑related risks.
• Maintain the application and platform portfolio within the Enterprise Architecture Repository.
• Establish and maintain a single source of truth for architecture assets.
• Conduct portfolio assessments using methodologies such as Gartner TIME and 6R.
• Identify consolidation and reuse opportunities to reduce costs and technical debt.
• Ensure architecture viability throughout build, run, evolve and retire lifecycle phases.
• Collaborate with IT Application Managers and business stakeholders on portfolio evolution.

Strategic Advisory

• Perform trade‑off analyses covering cost, complexity, risk and business value.
• Support executive decision‑making with architecture recommendations.
• Develop and maintain long‑term domain roadmaps.
• Anticipate regulatory, technological and market evolution.
• Advise senior stakeholders on long‑term architectural impacts and strategic decisions.
• Review solution architectures to ensure domain consistency.
• Govern data models, information architecture and integration patterns.
• Ensure interoperability across enterprise systems, operational systems and analytics platforms.
• Define and support data ownership principles.
• Ensure data quality and semantic consistency across the domain.
• Collaborate closely with Data, Solution, Platform and Enterprise Architects.

Security, Resilience & Compliance

• Embed security, resilience, availability and compliance requirements into architectures.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, safety and cyber‑security obligations.
• Define business continuity and disaster recovery architecture measures.
• Address operational risks and critical infrastructure constraints.

Your activities:

• Collaborate with Business Architects to define architecture roadmaps.
• Design and maintain IT blueprints supporting business capabilities.
• Define architecture principles, standards and reference architectures.
• Prepare and present architecture reviews to governance boards.
• Create and maintain Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).
• Conduct portfolio assessments using Gartner TIME and 6R frameworks.
• Maintain architecture repositories and application inventories.
• Monitor SLA and OLA performance indicators.
• Identify and manage technical debt risks.
• Perform architecture trade‑off analyses and impact assessments.
• Execute peer reviews of Solution Architecture deliverables.
• Advise executive and senior stakeholders.
• Govern enterprise data models and information architecture.
• Define integration and interoperability patterns.
• Ensure data ownership, consistency and quality.
• Review security, resilience and compliance requirements.
• Define business continuity and disaster recovery architecture approaches.
• Promote application and platform reuse opportunities.
• Coordinate with Enterprise, Platform, Security, Solution and Data Architects.
• Support AI architecture initiatives and AI governance practices.
• Ensure alignment between innovation, operational reliability and long‑term sustainability.

You have the following skills:

• Business Capability Modelling
• Architecture Review Boards (ARB)
• Technical Debt Management
• Enterprise Architecture Repository Management
• IT Roadmap Definition
• Strategic Architecture Planning

Architecture Frameworks & Methodologies

• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• Domain‑Driven Design (DDD)
• Event Storming
• ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
• Gartner TIME
• 6R Assessment Framework

Corporate & Business Domains

• Corporate Business Capabilities
• Finance Systems & Processes
• HR Systems & Processes
• Procurement Systems & Processes
• Corporate Services
• Business Process Transformation
• SAP Products & Ecosystem

AI, Data & Integration

• AI Target Architectures
• AI Reference Architectures
• AI Governance
• MCP
• Data Ownership
• Data Quality Management
• Semantic Data Consistency
• Interoperability Design

Energy & Critical Infrastructure

• Energy & Utilities Sector
• Electricity Market Facilitation Services
• Outage Planning
• Scheduling Services
• Voltage Services
• Critical Infrastructure Environments
• IT/OT Integration
• Operational Constraints Awareness
• Safety‑Critical Systems
• Cybersecurity Architecture
• Regulatory Compliance
• Availability & Reliability Architecture
• Resilience Architecture
• Business Continuity
• Disaster Recovery
• Security‑by‑Design

Stakeholder Management & Leadership

• Executive Stakeholder Management
• C‑Level Communication
• Strategic Thinking
• Trade‑Off Analysis
• Decision‑Making Support
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration
• Governance & Accountability

Languages

• Native‑level proficiency in one of the following languages: Dutch, French, or German
• Professional proficiency in English
• Knowledge of one or more additional national languages is considered an asset.
• You have at least 3 years of professional experiences in IT
• If you are at least fluent in FR/ENG or NL/ENG it’s best
• You’re eager to learn, motivated and curious
• Let’s have a chat !

Advantages

• Hospitalization insurance (partner/children incl.)
• Group insurance
• Dental insurance (partner/children included)
• 20 days statutory paid vacations (legal vacations cumulated for 1 year of work)
• 11 days recovery time work 38/40 per year (= annual average: 1 day per 20 days worked) if the client asks you to work 8h/day
• Representation fee net per month.
• Internet fee of € 40 per month.
• Company car with national fuel card OR Public transport reimbursed OR mobility package.
• Daily fee of 5.50€ net /day provided.
• Subscription GSM unlimited calls for Belgium (ITS subscription)
• Training plan (e-learning - certification at ITS charge)
• Being a rather small team in BE (6 in back‑office), we’re very close to each of our consultants and we differentiate ourselves trying to really take care of you and make you grow with us and within our different clients.
• Regular follow‑up (every 3 to 6months depending on your needs/will)
• Regular teambuilding to meet‑up and have fun (every 3 months more or less)
• Flexibility and trust
• Benefits of still being part to a bigger group (ITS Group) and having access to resources and of a larger team of Experts
• Co‑optation system because sharing is caring!
• 1st pre‑screening on the phone to discuss about your search and conditions and our first potential opportunities matching.
• Job descriptions sent and Teams meeting fixed with us (HR and Sales) to dig into your experience and the role.
• Package proposal so we all agree beforehand.
• Your CV is sent to the different clients you’ve agreed to, to find the best mission for you!

Expérience> 5 ans

Fonction managériale :Non

Mobilité :Non

Mode de poste :Hybride (site/télétravail)

Salaire :Salary conform your experience & skills

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For more than 25 years, ITS Group has been a French ESN specializing in digital transformation, employing around 1,400 employees across 8 agencies in France and 1 in Belgium.

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