Atcon Global - Solution Architect

Location:
Anderlecht/Braine
Languages:
English
Start Date:
ASAP
End date :
initially 6 -month contract (possibility for an extension)


Context of the mission / Objective(s) of the job

As an IT Digital Solution Architect, you are the design authority for software products and platforms we develop or compose across the digital solution spectrum (e.G., Web, mobile, IoT, data and AI/ML). You are a trusted thought leader with a hands-on attitude, who thrives on collaboratively solving complex challenges and delivering innovative solutions for our internal and external stakeholders.


Responsibilities
Creating and documenting end-to-end solution architectures for initiatives, informed by proactively engaging and advising stakeholders on vision and roadmaps, functional and operational requirements, goals and constraints. You facilitate decision making by clearly articulating options and trade-offs, highlighting the relation between business strategy and technology. You pragmatically apply well-architected principles and frameworks and aim for resilience and agility.
Evaluating vendor solution and software architectures, platforms, technologies, and other offerings, and making decision-ready recommendations.
Enabling fluent implementation and deployment, by closely collaborating with architects, developers, engineers, squad members, and guiding them with architectural expertise.
Co-creating and evangelizing reusable reference architectures, standards, patterns, and other artefacts to accelerate time-to-market for new systems, reduce their cost and/or risk.
Being a trusted thought leader on modern technologies, languages and frameworks, architectural styles, patterns and practices. You will collaboratively define strategy, roadmaps and champion community adoption.
Driving continuous improvements, internalizing and scaling learnings and best practices.
Cutting through the noise and driving to the essence of problems, proposing solutions with a natural simplicity that are easy to understand, implement and maintain.

Skills
A master's degree in computer sciences, Software Engineering or equivalent.
At least 7 years of experience working in software engineering of which at least 5 in a software architecture or solution architecture role. Experience in end-to-end digital solution design and development, using modern architectural styles, patterns, and practices. Practical knowledge of various backend, frontend and integration techniques, technologies, and languages.
Proven expertise with cloud (native) architectures and well-architected frameworks, including security. Well-rounded knowledge of cloud products and services (Microsoft Azure or other leading platform), and hands-on deployment, automation, and administration experience.
Experience architecting both bespoke solutions as well as composed solutions, with sufficient focus on fault tolerance, recoverability, performance, interoperability and other desirable non-functional requirements.
Integration knowledge including experience designing solutions around APIs, event-based paradigms, usage of iPaaS, ...
Data-centric mindset, constantly thinking about how a solution's data can be easily exposed to enable future products and use-cases and speed up business decision-making.
Experience in a regulated environment is a plus. Understanding the responsibility of solution architecture in achieving security and compliance goals.
Some experience architecting solutions with AI or GenAI aspects.
Good understanding of product management, Agile principles, and development methodologies.
Passion for working in multidisciplinary teams (squads), embracing different perspectives to drive better outcomes. Able to inspire and rally commitment for novel ideas and approaches.