Presentation

The Federal Police is engaged in a large-scale digital and organizational transformation, aiming to modernize its processes, strengthen operational efficiency, and better meet the expectations of citizens and field services.

This transformation is driven by the Digital Transformation Office (DTO), the true strategic engine of the organization, under the responsibility of the Digital Transformation Officer. The DTO defines the digital strategy, leads the transformation office, and ensures the alignment of all initiatives with the strategy of the Federal Police and the Integrated Police.

Its actions are based on three complementary pillars: IT, innovation, and intelligence (Data).

The DTO operates within a global transformation framework structured around five main axes:

• Framing and structuring of initiatives (intake, program management, target operating model, legal aspects),
• Foundations and standardization, including the modernization of IT infrastructures, security, data integration, and stabilization of fundamentals (“Fix the basics”),
• Transformation of business domains, both administrative and operational, and citizen-oriented,
• Innovation, with the integration of emerging technologies, notably Artificial Intelligence,
• Cross-functional governance, ensuring coordination between steering bodies and operational units, as well as change management support.

You will join the Product Division (DIPO) team of the Federal Police’s IT department (DRI). You will also be in constant contact with the CTO who is responsible for the overall technological vision and steering the digital transformation.

Project

As part of a structured digital transformation program integrating hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, an aging application landscape being modernized, data, and co-creation environments, we are looking for a Solution Architect capable of combining strategic vision, technical leadership, and strong operational involvement.

Role and responsibilities

The role of Solution Architect is aimed at a senior profile.

This implies having at least 10 years of experience as a Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, Team Leader of architects, or Integration Architect. This criterion is mandatory and must be strictly met. All candidates who do not meet this condition will be excluded and therefore will not be interviewed.

The ideal candidate will be recognized for their ability to design complex architectures, explain them in layman’s terms to management, contribute to business cases within the framework of managing requests from the business, and implement them. We are looking for a candidate who has succeeded in achieving tangible and concrete results in private and public organizations.

The role involves staying deeply involved in the concrete implementation of solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Definition, maintenance, and evolution of the integration platform
• Modeling of the integration platform and related applications using standard methods (UML and BPMN)
• Design, estimation, and construction of an integration architecture with a focus on service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions
• Supervision of the application portfolio and management of the application lifecycle, including modernization or decommissioning
• Development of complex integration solutions using technologies such as Webmethods, JMS, Apache Camel, and WebServices (REST/SOAP)
• Framing and implementation of interfacing and automation of flows between different platforms (e.g.: automatic data transfer via API between a CRM/ERP and other applications)

• Production of architecture documents; namely High Level Design (HLD) to provide a high-level understanding of architectural design to ensure data flow consistency between systems

• Definition, maintenance, and evolution of the Data architecture

• Data and data flow modeling using standard methods (UML and BPMN)
• Design, estimation, and construction of a centralized, secure, and high-performance Data architecture
• Definition of solutions enabling extraction, retrieval, and injection of data via OCR / AI

• Production of architecture documents; namely High Level Design (HLD) to provide a high-level understanding of architectural design to ensure data flow consistency between systems

• Contribution to DevOps/MLOps architecture and its governance

• Contribution to DevOps/MLOps architecture and its consistency
• Define and maintain the target DevOps/MLOps vision in line with the overall architecture and IT standards

• Ensure the integration of DevOps/MLOps/DevSecOps principles into projects (automation, CI/CD, security, observability)

• Alignment of projects and governance

• Ensure that designed solutions integrate correctly with existing DevOps/MLOps platforms and respect architecture patterns

• Support project teams in technology choices and compliance with DevOps/MLOps best practices

• Monitoring and evolution of the DevOps/MLOps program

• Contribute to the DevOps/MLOps roadmap, identify necessary evolutions, and ensure inter-project consistency

• Ensure the systematic integration of security requirements in a DevSecOps logic

• Continuous improvement

• Propose structural optimizations (automation, standardization, AI) to improve the performance, quality, and resilience of pipelines

You are the reference Solution Architect of the IT organization, responsible for the definition, implementation, and evolution of platforms, both on strategic and operational aspects.

You are hierarchically positioned in the DIPO team (responsible for the maintenance and evolution of IT products) and report functionally to the Digital Transformation Office (DTO, responsible for IT strategy) for the missions entrusted to you by the DTO.

You personally carry the architectural choices, participate in architecture boards when necessary, and implement them with the teams. You will pay particular attention to ensuring that proposed solutions align with business, security, and performance objectives.

You are expected to be a hands-on technical leader, capable of:

• Defining a clear vision for the solutions within your scope
• Proposing technical and technological alternatives
• Discussing and supporting the drafting of business cases
• Making technical and technological decisions
• Coding, configuring, automating when necessary
• Controlling the quality of what has been produced
• Supporting teams in the field

Education and certifications

• Master's degree or equivalent in IT, engineering, data, or AI
• Togaf certification
• Prince 2
• Scrum
• UML & BPMN

Languages

• Professional English required
• French or Dutch required
• Mastery of both is an asset

Practical information:

Start date: 04/05/2026 (asap)
Duration: 31/12/2026 (extendable)
Full-time (40h/week)

Workplace:

rue Royale 202A, 1000 Brussels

Working conditions:

Presence at the office at least 2 times per week depending on tasks and in agreement with the team, telework allowed from home or at the employer’s site (in Belgium)

Team:

Multidisciplinary, mix of internal and external collaborators