De Lijn is looking for a Senior Domain (IT) Architect for the ICT & Data Architecture department. De Lijn is divided into different business units, also called domains. These are HR, Operations, Finance & Staff, Marketing & Mobility, and Technology & Supply Chain. A domain architect is responsible for the elaboration (down to solution IT level) of the Enterprise IT architecture within their assigned domain.

What do we expect from a domain architect's responsibilities:

• Analyzes the application and service portfolio of the assigned domain, and develops improvement trajectories that are included in the strategic or tactical ICT plan
• Designs the content of the architecture repository for the specific domain:
• IT layer (Domain IT architect)
• Designs the architecture, explains this to the business stakeholders, and submits it for validation to the validation body (Architecture Review Board). Does this for the specific domain:
• IT architecture (Domain IT architect)
• Prepares the IT part of the project mandate/proposal/PID (project initiation document), business case, and project plan:
• identifies business and IT risks
• identifies the IT solution
• makes an IT cost estimation
• makes an implementation estimation
• Monitors compliance with the domain architecture within projects
• Develops own expertise and keeps it up to date

Context/Requirements:

You consider it important in your role to recommend, use, and deploy technology solutions to realize De Lijn's future, ecological, social, and business-responsible opportunities. In this context, you always safeguard, during the execution of your assignment, the mission of De Lijn:

• De Lijn aims to be the smart travel companion for journeys throughout Flanders.
• De Lijn is close to its passengers with a broad range of sustainable and high-quality transport solutions where safety, reliability, and efficiency are central.
• De Lijn is an important discussion partner for the Flemish authorities in developing mobility policy and thereby supports economic, ecological, and social development.
• De Lijn creates a stimulating and respectful working environment so that our friendly and competent employees are our ambassadors.
• In this way, De Lijn contributes to a Flanders that is easily accessible and a pleasant place to live.

Your assignment consists of helping determine which technical capabilities are needed. Subsequently, you will help guide their rollout.

You will work in an environment with a wide variety of technologies, from modern SaaS solutions and in-house development within our software factory, to large packages for our ERP and operational systems, and legacy technology related to buildings, fixed installations, and vehicles with a lifespan of several decades. As a domain architect, you navigate smoothly through all these worlds and try to unite them as efficiently as possible where necessary.