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Senior Solution Architect
AlmavivA de Belgique
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EU Countries
Experience
Lead / principal · 15+ years
Job description
Senior/Expert architect designing and developing business and technical architectures for digital solutions, providing technical leadership and ensuring scalable, secure and reliable system designs.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EU Countries
What you'll do
- Design and develop comprehensive business and technical architectures for digital solutions to meet business needs, defining measurable non-functional requirements
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and frameworks
- Create and maintain key architectural artifacts, including Solution Context diagrams, C4 model views, API contracts, data models, threat models, and deployment diagrams
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and reliable
- Guide development teams during implementation phases
- Conduct architecture and code reviews to ensure adherence to enterprise standards and secure coding guidelines (e.g. OWASP) throughout the implementation lifecycle
- Identify and mitigate potential risks and technical challenges
- Assess and incorporate emerging technologies
- Provide technical leadership and support to development teams and other stakeholders
- Define integration patterns (e.g. event-driven, Enterprise Integration Patterns), data flows, and API standards (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI) to ensure coherent and scalable system interactions
- Incorporate observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and resiliency patterns (e.g. circuit breakers, retries) into solution designs
- Support the development of security architectures, including identity management, secrets handling, encryption, and conduct threat modelling (e.g. STRIDE)
What we're looking for
- Proficiency in systems and software architecture design
- Knowledge of cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, OVH) and ability to design architectures that leverage native services to minimise custom development
- Knowledge of enterprise applications and middleware
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and API management (e.g., REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI)
- Understanding of database management systems and data modelling
- Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, etc.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and standards (e.g., ISO 27001, OWASP, Zero Trust)
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Knowledge of networking concepts and protocols
- Knowledge of observability and monitoring practices (e.g., logging, tracing, metrics)
- Knowledge of architecture governance and documentation practices (e.g., decision records, C4 diagrams, architecture reviews)
- Proven experience with AXON server, KAFKA, Elastic Search
- Proven experience with an API Gateway - WSO2 API, Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Gateway, Google Cloud Apigee
- In depth knowledge of CSDR
- Capacity to collaborate across teams and communicate architectural concepts
- Skill in simplifying technical architectures into business-relevant language
- Competence in anticipating future needs and designing scalable solutions
- Talent for working across teams to ensure integrated outcomes
- Ability to engage stakeholders to gather requirements and secure buy-in
- Capacity to adjust architectures to reflect emerging technologies
- Must be an EU national
- More than 15 years of IT Experience
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