Solution Architect — Java Platform Modernisation

Responsibilities

• Identify stakeholders and analyse and challenge functional, non-functional, regulatory and security requirements.
• Define the scope, boundaries, assumptions and dependencies of the solution.
• Build a technical inventory and architecture roadmap covering legacy maintenance, platform modernisation and cybersecurity.
• Design the target architecture and compare scenarios on benefits, cost, risk, impact and reversibility.
• Record key decisions in Architecture Decision Records.
• Run gap analyses, propose transition stages and estimate implementation costs.
• Prepare architecture reviews and perform conformity reviews during delivery and before go-live.
• Guide design, development, integration, test, security and operations teams; take part in refinement and do targeted code reviews on service boundaries, interface contracts and error handling.
• Build and maintain the architecture models in ArchiMate (e.g. Sparx EA) and enforce modelling conventions.
• Organise knowledge transfer and keep architecture documentation up to date.
• Be available for the on-call service.

Requirements

• You have 10+ years of experience with enterprise and solution architecture, governance and requirements management.
• You have 10+ years of experience as a solution architect on production systems, designing and integrating solutions across multiple technical domains and stakeholders.
• You master architecture modelling and produce coherent views across business, data, application and technology.
• You reason in scenarios, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, cost and value.
• You know integration patterns, APIs, data, infrastructure, cloud and cybersecurity, and understand operability, resilience, continuity, performance and lifecycle.
• You have experience with architecture reviews, risk analyses and guiding implementations.
• You have hands-on software development experience recent enough to be credible towards an engineering team.
• Practical knowledge of TOGAF is recommended; certification and knowledge of security practices and an ITSM framework are a plus.
• You are fluent in French and/or Dutch and English, spoken and written.