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