Senior Enterprise Architect: Cloud, AI & Platforms

STAR Specialists; Zuid-Holland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

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

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Distributed/Web-based architectures

Data & Integration architectures

Azure architecture

AI-enabled solutions

Agile/DevOps

Cloud-native architectures

Architectural governance

Education

Computer science/Engineering degree

Tools

Bizzdesign HOPEX

AVEVA

IFS

Cognite

Job description

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