Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect

Bennetboss; Zuid-Holland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bennetboss is seeking an experienced Profile Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect to design and govern end-to-end architectures for IT and digital initiatives. You will operate within the Enterprise Architecture team, aligning business requirements with governance and reuse across initiatives.

The role emphasizes cloud-native architectures (Azure), API management, containerization, and AI-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience as a Solution Architect in complex environments.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and API management.
• Experience designing AI-enabled solutions including GenAI and Azure ML.
• Experience assessing SaaS solutions, cloud services and vendor architectures.
• Ability to collaborate with Digital Solution Leads, IT Project Managers and delivery teams.
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps delivery models; exposure to industrial platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain end-to-end solution architectures, standards and reference architectures.
• Design solutions for asset-heavy industries, considering digital solutions and engineering apps.
• Develop and maintain High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Integration Architecture Designs.
• Design and assess solutions using Azure services, SaaS platforms and other technologies.
• Evaluate vendor solutions and support POC/RFI/RFP processes with clear architectural recommendations.
• Lead design workshops and document decisions, risks and deviations per governance.

Skills

Solution architecture

Cloud architecture

AI-enabled solutions

Architectural governance

Tools

Microsoft Azure

API Management

Containers

Azure Machine Learning

DevOps tools

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Foundry

Job description

Profile Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect

As a Solutions Architect, you are responsible for designing and governing end-to-end solution architectures for IT and Digital initiatives. Operating within the Enterprise Architecture team, you work at the intersection of business requirements, project delivery, and enterprise architecture governance, with a strong focus on execution quality, architectural coherence, and reuse across initiatives.

If you have experience in Oil & Gas, offshore energy, heavy engineering or other asset-heavy industries, and understand the digital solutions and engineering systems used in these environments, this could be the role for you!

Tasks & responsibilities:

• Design and maintain end-to-end solution architectures, standards and reference architectures, translating business requirements into secure, scalable and supportable solutions across applications, data, integration, infrastructure and security.
• Design solutions for asset-heavy industries, considering the digital solutions, industrial platforms and engineering applications used in complex operational environments.
• Develop and maintain High-Level Designs (HLDs), Technical Architecture Documents (TADs) and Integration Architecture Designs throughout the initiative lifecycle.
• Design and assess solutions using Microsoft Azure services, SaaS platforms and other technologies, ensuring compliance with security, data, integration and architecture standards.
• Evaluate vendor solutions, support proof-of-concept activities and RFI/RFP processes, and provide clear architectural recommendations, including risks, trade-offs and design rationale.
• Work with Digital Solution Leads, IT Project Managers and delivery teams across multiple initiatives, leading design workshops where required and documenting architectural decisions, risks and deviations in line with enterprise architecture governance.

Requirements Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect

• 2–3 years of experience as a Solution Architect in complex environments, with knowledge of distributed and web-based application architectures, data architecture and integration patterns, including APIs, event-driven and message-based integration.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, API management, containers and platform services, with a focus on Microsoft Azure architecture and design rather than development.
• Experience designing AI-enabled solutions, including GenAI, AI agents, model integration, security and compliance, with exposure to Azure Machine Learning.
• Experience assessing SaaS solutions, cloud services and vendor architectures against security, data, integration and compliance requirements, including proof-of-concept activities and RFI/RFP processes.
• Ability to work with Digital Solution Leads, IT Project Managers and delivery teams, contribute to design workshops, and document architectural decisions, risks and trade-offs in line with enterprise architecture governance.
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps delivery models. Experience with Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Foundry or industrial and asset-centric platforms.
• Highly preferred is experience in oil & gas, Engineering, Civil or Industrial industry with digital solutions or asset centric platforms.