1. Job Description

Drafting an integrated and consolidated Application Architecture for the projects within the strategic roadmap in order to ensure their proper operation and to guarantee applications with good usability and sustainable quality, which includes, among other things:

• Taking a leading role in identifying and structuring applications, application components, and application functions that support the transversal processes in the broader organization
• Creating a product catalog and a logical application landscape, including an overview of the products and their interrelationships
• Maintaining and updating these architecture deliverables to ensure their continuity and to meet the needs and effectiveness of the information systems
• Co-developing, optimizing, and monitoring the intermediate and target architectures, both project-specific and on an enterprise level
• Concretizing the target architecture, together with business and IT, in line with the strategic objectives of the organization
• Supporting strategic decisions through impact analyses, scenario development, and providing accurate, essential, and sufficient information
• Contributing to business cases (e.g. Buy vs. Build), RFPs, defining master plans and programs, and the realization of proofs of concept
• Participating in the creation of transformation roadmaps, including architectural dependencies, risks, and priorities
• Monitoring the architectural quality of IT solutions, in collaboration with the application architects and project teams
• Translating, applying, and disseminating the generally accepted Application Architecture standards to the different teams, taking into account internal transformation processes and other applicable standards within SFPD
• Supporting other roles (architects, IT project managers, functional analysts, developers, etc.) in applying architectural principles, standards, and reference models
• Targeted coaching of other architects

• Supporting collaboration initiatives within Social Security (eGov 3.0, …)

• Technical and Generic Competencies

• Experience in setting up, implementing, and monitoring IT Architecture governance and application architecture

• Analytical and strategic thinking skills: able to perform impact analyses, evaluate scenarios, and substantiate decisions
• Capable of evaluating legacy applications, drawing up migration plans, and guiding integration into new platforms
• Possess the necessary technical background to engage in constructive and substantive dialogue with IT experts
• You have the necessary leadership qualities to involve your stakeholders in Architectural Governance and decision-making
• You are an excellent communicator, you provide structure for your stakeholders, and you work in a planned manner
• Experience in change management. You can guide transformations and effectively manage resistance
• Collaboration-oriented: works effectively with various roles (architects, project managers, business analysts, developers) and encourages cross-domain collaboration
• Autonomy and result-orientation

Assets: Experience in the public sector, knowledge of pensions and the Belgian social security system

In addition to the CV, we kindly ask you to provide a short slide deck with a high-level description of what Application Governance entails and how a possible Action Plan could look to gradually increase maturity in terms of architectural governance.

The place of employment is Brussels. We offer the possibility to telework part-time.

After a CV screening based on the selection criteria, a shortlist will be created with the best matching candidates. These candidates will be invited for an interview.