Senior Solutions Architect: Architecture Audit

ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS; Namen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS in Namur, Belgium, is seeking a senior architecture professional to audit and transform a large application landscape within a public organisation. You will assess robustness, relevance and sustainability of solutions, control technical debt, and inform investment and transformation decisions.

The role acts as a reference for management, architects, programme managers, business and technical teams, and external partners, delivering architecture governance, roadmaps and

Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
• At least ten years of relevant experience in application architecture.
• Several years in audit, transformation or architecture governance.
• Three significant missions in architecture audit, technical debt diagnostics or transformation of complex systems.
• Experience in public or regulated environment, or one of comparable complexity.

Responsibilities

• Carry out technical and architectural audits of existing solutions, solutions under development or solutions proposed by providers.
• Produce objective diagnostics on technical debt, critical dependencies, structural limits, performance, resilience, security, maintainability and operability.
• Assess the alignment of architectures with business objectives, regulatory constraints and the organisation's architecture principles.
• Identify and prioritise architectural risks and their business, technical, budgetary and operational impacts.
• Define target architectures, transformation scenarios and migration or modernisation trajectories.
• Carry out impact, opportunity and risk analyses to support governance decisions.
• Challenge the choices and estimates proposed by external providers.
• Lead or contribute to architecture reviews and formalise decisions, conditions, reservations and action plans.
• Support teams in implementing recommendations and verify that they are actually applied.
• Measure results and adapt recommendations when findings, constraints or priorities change.
• Contribute to the analysis of complex technical incidents when their causes may be architectural.
• Present options, trade-offs, risks, costs and consequences clearly to facilitate decisions.
• Audit and architecture diagnostic reports (findings, evidence, risks, prioritised recommendations).
• Maps of components, flows, dependencies, obsolescence and risks.
• Existing and target architecture documentation.
• Modernisation roadmaps, migration trajectories and technical debt reduction plans.
• Documented architecture decisions, technical opinions and review minutes.
• Action plans with priorities, responsibilities, success conditions and verification criteria.

Skills

Technical debt analysis

Architectural risk assessment

Modernisation planning

Distributed architectures

Architecture governance

Audit of complex architectures

Target architecture definition

Architecture modelling

Java environments

Education

Master's degree in computer science

Tools

UML

ArchiMate

Job description

ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS in Namur, Belgium, is seeking a senior architecture professional to audit and transform a large application landscape within a public organisation. You will assess robustness, relevance and sustainability of solutions, control technical debt, and inform investment and transformation decisions.

The role acts as a reference for management, architects, programme managers, business and technical teams, and external partners, delivering architecture governance, roadmaps and