Solution Architect

Develop and maintain enterprise, domain, and solution architectures, ensuring alignment across levels.

Create and evolve domain-level architectures that balance enterprise direction with product team needs.

Design secure, scalable, high-performing solutions aligned with enterprise and domain standards.

Identify shared capabilities, reusable components, and integration patterns across domains.

Apply modern architectural patterns such as microservices, event‑driven design, API-first integration, cloud-native architectures, and zero‑trust principles.

Translate business strategy into technology strategy, multi‑year roadmaps, and target architectures that enable digital transformation.

Guiding transition toward a digital-first operating model, ensuring technology investments align with business objectives.

Support transformation programs by ensuring solutions and domains evolve consistently toward the target enterprise architecture.

Lead and participate in architecture reviews, design boards, and governance forums, ensuring alignment across programs and initiatives.

Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, reference models, and ensure their adoption across teams.

Provide technical leadership during key programs, guiding teams toward coherent and compliant architectural decisions.

Ensure solution designs adhere to security, compliance, performance, and maintainability standards.

Document architecture decisions, blueprints, integration specifications, and reusable patterns to support transparency and reuse.

Coach and mentor engineering teams, promoting architectural best practices and technical excellence.

Evaluate emerging technologies to assess strategic relevance, enterprise applicability, and readiness.

Inspire teams by introducing innovative approaches, patterns, and tools that improve agility, scalability, and time-to-market.

Foster a culture of experimentation and learning within the technology organisation.

Identify opportunities where innovative technology can create new capabilities, efficiencies, or client value.

Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, product managers, engineering, and security teams to ensure design cohesion and strategic alignment.

Act as the architectural lead within your domain, translating enterprise strategy into practical guidance for delivery teams.

Facilitate alignment workshops, design sessions, and leadership discussions to drive shared understanding across teams.

Communicate architectural strategy, decisions, and roadmaps in a clear and actionable way to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

Contribute to business growth by co-authoring proposals and bids, estimating effort, cost, and risk, and pitching proposed solutions to prospective and existing clients.

Experience: 5+ years in IT architecture or related roles.

Degree: Bachelor’s or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.

Skills: Architecture Frameworks & Tools, application architecture, modelling, BPMN, enterprise systems, microservices, integration frameworks, security frameworks.

Clearly in Dutch, French and English (all written and spoken).

Hybrid employment: you will work on site at the customer’s premises, combined with working at Adesso Brussels and remote homeworking.