Digital Architect

Foreside; Eindhoven; Hybrid; EUR 56,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lease car or mobility budget

Bonus

Pension scheme

Laptop of your choice

Expenses budget

Training budget (up to €3,000/year)

Hackathons and conferences

Job summary

Foreside is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to translate goals into robust architectures for applications, platforms and processes in Eindhoven. You will guide teams, make technical decisions, and document standards while aligning with Agile or DevOps practices.

The role focuses on designing scalable, secure systems, evaluating new technologies, and driving architecture governance across client projects. A permanent contract with competitive compensation is offered.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in software development, testing or cloud engineering.
• Design architectures for applications, platforms and processes.
• Experience with cloud providers and SaaS, scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, logging, monitoring and cost control.
• Understanding of security and compliance; able to solve complex problems.
• Clear documentation and guidance for teams using Agile/DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain architectural designs with stakeholders and dev teams.
• Translate project requirements into system, integration and process decisions.
• Evaluate new technology and recommend value-added usage.
• Assess system quality and performance; guide improvements.
• Guide teams through technical questions, reviewing AI-produced work.
• Document decisions and share guidelines with teams.

Skills

Software development

Testing

Cloud engineering

Architectural design

CI/CD

Security & compliance

Agile / DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Cloud providers

Job description

You help our clients translate their goals into a coherent architecture for applications, platforms and processes. You make technical decisions understandable and guide teams in building solutions that fit the organisation.

Eindhoven 32 to 40 hours Permanent contract €5.000 - €7.000 p/m

You work with: SA · SE · EA · MACH

What you do

• You create and maintain architectural designs with stakeholders and development teams
• You translate project requirements into decisions about systems, integrations and processes
• You evaluate new technology and recommend where it can add value
• You assess system quality and performance and help teams make improvements
• You guide development teams through technical and functional questions, including reviewing work produced with AI
• You document decisions and guidelines and share your knowledge with teams

What you bring

• You have substantial experience in software development, testing or cloud engineering
• You design architectures for applications, platforms, processes and governance and understand software design principles and patterns
• You have substantial experience with cloud providers, infrastructure and SaaS and can design scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant systems
• You know shared services such as CI/CD, logging, monitoring, alerting and cost control
• You have a thorough understanding of security and compliance and can find solutions to complex problems
• You document standards and decisions clearly, communicate well and guide teams working with approaches such as Agile or DevOps
• You hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field

Nice to have

• You have hands-on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure
• You have hands-on experience with penetration testing

What we always ask

• Work experience in the Netherlands
• English at B2 level and Dutch at A2 level

What we offer

• A salary and terms that match what you can do
• A permanent contract, with a lease car or a mobility budget
• Bonus, pension scheme, a laptop of your choice and an expenses budget
• A training budget of up to 3,000 euros a year
• Working with a modern stack, on assignments at our clients
• At least one day a week together with other Foresiders at our home base
• Hackathons, innovation days and conferences, in the Netherlands and abroad
• Helping build our open source framework for digital architecture