Enterprise Architect

STAR Specialists; Zuid-Holland; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

STAR Specialists is seeking a Solution Architect to lead design and governance of IT and Digital initiatives in a multi-project environment. You will translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and secure architectures across applications, data, integration, infrastructure and security domains.

Focus on AI-enabled solutions and Azure-based platforms with governance and standardization. You will collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure adherence to reference

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in complex, multi-project environments.
• Strong experience with distributed and web-based application architectures.
• Experience with data and integration architectures, including APIs and event-driven integration.
• Azure-based architecture focus with secure, scalable designs; governance-oriented.
• Experience designing AI-enabled solutions, GenAI, AI agents and model integration with security/compliance in mind.

Aufgaben

• Design and govern end-to-end solution architectures for IT and Digital initiatives.
• Translate requirements into robust designs across applications, data, integration, infra and security domains.
• Evaluate SaaS, cloud services and platforms against architecture and compliance needs.
• Produce and maintain High-Level and Low-Level designs; document decisions and risks.
• Lead architecture workshops and provide clear trade-off analyses and design rationales.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture governance and reference architectures.

Kenntnisse

Solution Architecture

Distributed/Web-based architectures

Data & Integration architectures

Azure architecture

AI-enabled solutions

Agile/DevOps

Cloud-native architectures

Architectural governance

Ausbildung

Computer science/Engineering degree

Tools

Bizzdesign HOPEX

AVEVA

IFS

Cognite

Jobbeschreibung

As an Engineer in the petrochemical sector, you play a leading role in the design, development and improvement of a plant and you work closely together on the largest projects. Together with a team of experts, you will provide efficient and sustainable solutions that meet the highest standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern end-to-end solution architectures for IT and Digital initiatives, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, supportable and compliant with IT standards, architectural principles and reference architectures.
• Operate at the intersection of business requirements, project delivery and Enterprise Architecture governance, with a focus on execution quality, architectural consistency and reuse.
• Define and maintain end-to-end solution architectures aligned with company standards, principles and reference architectures.
• Translate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, secure and supportable solution designs across application, data, integration, infrastructure and security domains.
• Evaluate SaaS solutions, cloud services and technology platforms against architecture, security, integration, data and compliance requirements.
• Support technology qualification, proof-of-concept activities and vendor architecture assessments.
• Review vendor solution designs and challenge non-standard approaches where required.
• Reuse and adapt existing reference architectures, architectural patterns and building blocks to ensure consistency and accelerate delivery.
• Produce and maintain solution architecture documentation, including High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs), throughout the initiative lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with the company's Digital initiative execution process and architecture governance framework.
• Collaborate with Digital Solution Leads, IT Project Managers and delivery teams across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Participate in and, where relevant, lead architecture and technical design workshops during project delivery.
• Document architectural decisions, risks and deviations to ensure traceability and alignment with Enterprise Architecture governance.
• Design solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure technologies, including IaaS, PaaS, integration, security and data platform services.
• Assess platforms, services and solution components against IT guidelines and reference architectures.
• Provide clear architectural recommendations, including trade-off analyses and design rationale.
• Contribute to RFI/RFP processes by defining and reviewing technical and security architecture requirements.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise data architecture, integration standards, master data principles and information management requirements.
• Experience with industrial and enterprise platforms such as AVEVA, IFS and Cognite is a strong asset.
• Maintain solution architecture documentation and artifacts within Enterprise Architecture tools; experience with Bizzdesign HOPEX is a strong plus.
• Ensure solution designs are properly linked to business capabilities, applications, data and technology layers.
• Promote reuse, standardization and simplification through architectural patterns, standards and reference architectures.
• Collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, IT delivery teams and architecture peers.
• Facilitate alignment across application, data, integration, infrastructure and security architecture domains.
• Act as a trusted architectural advisor throughout solution design and delivery, particularly in complex, multi-vendor environments.
• Deliver SaaS vendor IT questionnaire assessments, including scoring matrices, where required.
• Prepare presentations for the Enterprise Architecture Review Board (EARB).
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs), Technical Architecture Documents (TADs) and integration architecture designs.
• Prepare technology qualification assessments and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Provide architecture-related input for RFI/RFP processes.
• Maintain and document architecture landscapes (cartography) in Bizzdesign HOPEX.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in complex, multi-project environments.
• Strong experience with distributed and web-based application architectures.
• Experience with data and integration architectures, including APIs, event-driven integration and message-based integration.
• Solid understanding of modern platforms and architectural patterns, including cloud-native architectures, API management, containers and platform services.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Azure architecture, with a focus on architecture and design rather than development.
• Experience designing AI-enabled solutions, including Generative AI (GenAI), AI agents and model integration, taking security and compliance considerations into account.
• Experience with Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Foundry is a strong plus.
• Experience with industrial or asset-centric platforms, such as AVEVA, IFS and Cognite, is a plus.
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps delivery models.
• Focus on solution architecture design, standards and governance for projects with an emphasis on AI capabilities; this is not a hands-on software development role.
• Strong analytical, structuring and architectural design capabilities.
• Ability to work on multiple initiatives in parallel and manage architectural priorities.
• Strong orientation toward reuse, standardization and simplification.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable operating in global, complex and safety-critical environments.
• English proficiency is mandatory, both written and spoken.
• Local candidates are preferred.

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