What you do

We are looking for a freelance Solution Architect in the region of Brussels.

Tasks:

• Design and develop scalable and secure solutions that meet customer needs and business objectives
• Develop the future roadmap of these solutions, accounting for change and evolution, in line with product roadmaps
• Work with product owners, enterprise and other architects, business stakeholders and software engineers to understand and solve difficult technical problems
• Develop and maintain documentation, including architecture diagrams, system specifications, interfaces, data models and flows
• Document requirements, decisions, and communicate them effectively
• Collaborate with other technical leads, other domain architects and enterprise architecture to ensure software and system designs are implemented efficiently, effectively and with consistency
• Work to establish standards, policies, and practices; following architectural governance project governance to deliver robust and reusable services and solutions

What you bring to the team

• Experience working as a hands-on solution architect in a large organisation, regularly taking responsibility for difficult technical decisions and seeing them through to completion
• Ability to deliver, document and articulate complex architectures for the program at all levels: data, integration, application and security
• Experience in delivering solutions within large-scale program deliveries
• Deep knowledge of software solution architecture concepts, practices and tools
• Practical knowledge of cloud design patterns and services
• Experience in breaking down a monolith into Microservices oriented architectures
• Knowledge of current state-of-the-art for software service development and delivery
• Able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong awareness of cyber-security and information governance; good understanding of privacy by design and security by design principles
• Experience within the automotive industry or supply chain is considered a plus
• Expert level architecture documentation and diagramming techniques (e.g. Archimate, UML, wireframing, etc.)
• Experience with cloud architecture and services based on AWS (Azure is a plus)
• Experience in Bizzdesign is considered as a plus
• Formal data modelling and design techniques, for relational and NoSQL database technologies
• Experience working in a container-based and/or serverless environment, hosted on public/private cloud (AWS EKS, Kubernetes and Openshift preferred)
• Experience working with Data & integration platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Workato, Qlik, etc.)
• Experience with both request driven as event driven architectures
• Good understanding of CI/CD concepts, including version control, branching models, appropriate quality control techniques, secrets management, and automated deployments