1. Job Description

Drafting an integrated and consolidated Application Architecture for the projects within the strategic roadmap in order to ensure proper exploitation and to guarantee applications of good usability and sustainable quality, which includes, among others:

• Taking a leading role in identifying and structuring applications, application components, and application functions that support the transversal processes in the broader organization
• Preparing 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 in order to meet the needs and efficiency of the information systems.
• Co-developing, optimizing, and monitoring the intermediate and target architectures, both project-specific and at the enterprise level.
• Materializing the target architecture, together with business and IT, in line with the organization’s strategic objectives.
• Supporting strategic decisions through impact analyses, scenario development, and providing correct, essential, and sufficient information.
• Contributing to business cases (e.g., Buy vs. Build), RFPs, defining masterplans and programs, and the realization of proofs of concepts.
• Collaborating on the development of transformation roadmaps, including architectural dependencies, risks, and priorities.
• Monitoring the architectural quality of IT solutions, in cooperation with the application architects and project teams
• Translating, applying, and communicating generally accepted Application Architecture standards to the various teams, taking into account internal transformation projects and other prevailing standards within SFPD.
• Supporting other roles (architects, IT project managers, functional analysts, developers, …) in applying architecture principles, standards, and reference models
• Providing targeted coaching to 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 analysis, 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 hold constructive and substantive dialogues with IT experts.
• You have the necessary leadership qualities to engage 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 together with various roles (architects, project managers, business analysts, developers) and stimulates domain-crossing collaboration.
• Autonomy and result orientation
• Plus points: Experience in the public sector, knowledge of pensions and the Belgian social security system

The workplace is Brussels. We offer the possibility to telework part-time.

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