TA&S Enterprise Solution Architect (ID: 4127)
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Summary
STAFIDE is hiring a TA&S Enterprise Solution Architect in Amsterdam to act as the architectural authority for a security program: approving solution designs through Design Authority governance and defining architecture patterns for exposure management, vulnerability remediation, AI-assisted security, and resilience on Microsoft Azure.
As a TA&S Architect / Enterprise Solution Architect, you will
- Act as the architectural authority for the program, reviewing, challenging, and approving solution designs through the Design Authority process.
- Ensure solution designs, platform selections, and implementation approaches align with enterprise architecture principles, platform standards, security requirements, and target-state architecture.
- Provide architectural guidance to strategic use-case working groups from initial definition through implementation and delivery.
- Define and support solution architecture patterns for exposure management, vulnerability remediation, AI-assisted security capabilities, and resilience initiatives.
- Drive architecture consistency across workstreams by promoting platform reuse, simplification, and standardisation.
- Engage early in use-case definition to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and operationally sustainable.
- Evaluate architectural trade-offs, technical risks, dependencies, and technical debt, providing recommendations to stakeholders and governance bodies.
- Collaborate with engineering teams, product owners, cybersecurity teams, and enterprise architects to ensure alignment on solution designs.
- Contribute to target-state architectures, reference architectures, technical standards, and platform guardrails.
- Document architectural decisions, recommendations, and approvals to maintain governance and traceability.
- Ensure approved solutions comply with applicable regulatory, security, resilience, and risk management requirements.
What You Bring to the Table
- 8–10 years of overall professional experience, with extensive experience as a Domain Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Solution Architect in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in enterprise architecture, solution design governance, and architectural decision-making.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, cloud platform strategy, and enterprise technology standards.
- Experience reviewing and approving solution designs through architecture governance or Design Authority forums.
- Understanding of cybersecurity architecture, exposure management, vulnerability remediation, AI-assisted security capabilities, and resilience initiatives.
- Experience developing architecture standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and target-state roadmaps.
- Familiarity with Agile ways of working and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
You should possess the ability to
- Evaluate complex solution designs and make informed architectural recommendations.
- Challenge proposed designs constructively and ensure compliance with enterprise architecture principles.
- Identify architectural risks, dependencies, technical debt, and opportunities for standardisation.
- Translate strategic objectives into scalable, secure, and sustainable architectural solutions.
- Facilitate architectural discussions and achieve alignment among technical and business stakeholders.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and document decisions effectively.
- Drive proactive architectural engagement throughout the solution lifecycle.
- Support governance processes while enabling timely and effective decision-making.
What we bring to the table
- An opportunity to contribute to strategic enterprise architecture initiatives.
- The opportunity to influence architectural standards, technology choices, and strategic security initiatives.
- A collaborative environment involving architecture, engineering, product, and cybersecurity teams.
Let’s Connect
Want to discuss this opportunity in more detail? Feel free to reach out.
Recruiter: Giftson Paul Davidson
Phone: +31 20 369 0609 ; Extn : 151
E-mail: giftson.p@stafide.nl
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