Solution/Application Architect

USG Professionals Belgium; Evere; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

USG Professionals Belgium is seeking a Solution Architect to lead design and delivery for the MANOS program. You will design scalable, secure solutions that meet customer needs and align with business objectives, while upholding architecture governance and collaborating with product owners and engineers.

You will define the future roadmap, create architecture diagrams and data models, document decisions, and coordinate with enterprise architects and domain leads to solve complex problems and

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience as a solution architect in a large organisation.
• Ability to deliver, document and articulate complex architectures across data, integration, application and security domains.
• Experience delivering solutions within large-scale programme deliveries.
• Deep knowledge of software solution architecture concepts, practices and tools.
• Practical knowledge of cloud design patterns and services (AWS preferred).
• Experience in breaking down a monolith into microservice-oriented architectures.
• Strong communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Awareness of cyber-security and information governance; privacy by design and security by design principles.
• Experience in automotive or supply chain a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable and secure solutions that meet customer needs and business objectives.
• Develop the future roadmap of these solutions, accounting for change and evolution, in line with product roadmaps.
• Work with product owners, enterprise and other architects, business stakeholders and software engineers to understand and solve difficult technical problems.
• Develop and maintain documentation, including architecture diagrams, system specifications, interfaces, data models and flows.
• Document requirements, decisions, and communicate them effectively.
• Collaborate with other technical leads, other domain architects and enterprise architecture to ensure designs are implemented efficiently and consistently.
• Work to establish standards, policies, and practices; following architectural governance to deliver robust and reusable services and solutions.

Skills

Hands-on Architect

Technical decision making

Architecture docs

Cloud patterns

Microservices

Security by design

Data modelling

NoSQL databases

CI/CD

AWS

Kubernetes

Openshift

Archimate

UML

Stakeholder comms

Event-driven arch

Automotive domain knowledge

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Openshift

Snowflake

Workato

Qlik

Archimate

UML

Job description

Service provision for a Solution Architect for the MANOS program. The current resource is supporting numerous activities, creating a bottleneck for the projects and schedule.

Description of Deliverables:

Design and develop scalable and secure solutions that meet customer needs and business objectives Develop the future roadmap of these solutions, accounting for change and evolution, in line with product roadmaps Work with product owners, enterprise and other architects, business stakeholders and software engineers to understand and solve difficult technical problems Develop and maintain documentation, including architecture diagrams, system specifications, interfaces, data models and flows. Document requirements, decisions, and communicate them effectively. Collaborate with other technical leads, other domain architects and enterprise architecture to ensure software and system designs are implemented efficiently, effectively and with consistency. Work to establish standards, policies, and practices; following architectural governance project governance to deliver robust and reusable services and solutions.

Core Competency Skill Sets Required for Vendor Delivery:

Global Skills Experience working as a hands-on solution architect in a large organisation, regularly taking responsibility for difficult technical decisions and seeing them through to completion Ability to deliver, document and articulate complex architectures for the program at all levels: data, integration, application and security Experience in delivering solutions within large-scale programme deliveries Deep knowledge of software solution architecture concepts, practices and tools. Practical knowledge of cloud design patterns and services Experience in breaking down a monolith into Microservice oriented architectures Knowledge of current state-of-the-art for software service development and delivery Able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Strong awareness of cyber-security and information governance; good understanding of privacy by design and security by design principles Experience within the automotive industry or supply chain is considered a plus for the role Technical skils Expert level architecture documentation and diagramming techniques (e.g. Archimate, UML, wireframing, etc.) Experience with cloud architecture and services based on AWS (Azure is a plus) Experience in Bizzdesign is considered as a plus. Formal data modelling and design techniques, for relational and NoSQL database technologies Experience working in a container-based and/or serverless environment, hosted on public/private cloud (AWS EKS, Kubernetes and Openshift preferred) Experience working with Data & integration platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Workato, Qlik, etc.) Experience with both request driven as event driven architectures Good understanding of CI/CD concepts, including version control, branching models, appropriate quality control techniques, secrets management, and automated deployments