Solutions Architect

Agile Architects; Oost-Vlaanderen; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Agile Architects seeks a Solution Architect to guide customers in vision and design of organisation-wide, reliable architectures. You’ll align technical and application architecture across the IT landscape, integrating back-end services and external offerings, and contribute to digital transformation with innovative platform visions.

You will participate in development of proofs of concepts and establish reference architectures for customer-focused, rapidly changing environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in ICT or related field.
• Architect with a background in technical and application architecture.
• Follows trends in the digital landscape for architecture work.
• Experience in integration architecture (API management and Kafka) and information architecture (Big Data, ML/AI, analytics).
• Knowledge of Cloud (AWS/Azure Certified Solutions Architect) and Security considerations.
• Vision on custom front-end possibilities, Customer Engagement platforms and ERP (SAP, MS Dynamics).
• Describes themselves as a consultant and communicates to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Positive attitude with ability to see the bigger picture.

Skills

Integration architecture

Information architecture

Cloud platforms

Security certifications

ERP & front-end concepts

Consultant mindset

Communication skills

Industry trends

Back-end & API management

Education

Bachelor's degree in ICT

Job description

As a Solution Architect you help our customers in the vision and design of an organisation-wide, reliable, customer-oriented, technical & application architecture.

From your experience and background you know which choices to make to unlock information in the most optimal way. You can position this set-up within the entire IT landscape and you have a vision about integration with back-end systems and services that can be offered externally. You guide customers in their digital transformation and, where necessary, join projects in order to realise them. You can compare different scenarios and make well-founded choices based on objective facts, customer context, specific short and long-term needs, etc. You have an innovative vision in which you can link a wide range of topics to the set-up of platforms (security, front-end engineering, backend services, data capture and analytics, API management, cloud, AI, internet of things, master data management and big data architectures).

You will participate in the development of proof of concepts and help develop best practices and a reference architecture within the customer-oriented, rapidly changing world of today.

Your skills and talents

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant ICT field.
• You describe yourself as an architect with a background in both technical and application architecture. Having a background in multiple development and cloud environments is a plus.
• You follow the different trends in the digital landscape and take these into consideration when working out an architecture.
• You are inquisitive. Your field of interest and/or experience extends to integration architecture (API management and Event-Driven Architecture/Kafka), information architecture (including Big Data, Machine Learning, AI, analytics), Cloud (AWS/Azure Certified Solutions Architect) and Security (CISSP/CEH/CISM).
• You are someone with a vision on custom front-end possibilities, Customer Engagement platforms and/or ERP (SAP, Microsoft 365 Dynamics).
• You describe yourself as a consultant and thinks about how you can be an added value for the customer. You communicate fluently to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You have a positive attitude. You enjoy working with others and are quick to see the bigger picture.