Requirements: English
Company: Centric
Region: Brussels , Brussels
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