Description
Solution Architect - Brussel - 4 months +
With a focus on the areas: Human Resources, Finance (Accounting, Risk Mgmt., Asset Mgmt) and Data Warehouse.
Your Mission:
The Solution Architect outlines solution architecture descriptions across domains, functions, and business domains, then monitors and governs their implementation in projects. For this the Solution Architect works in a close Tandem with Enterprise Architecture and Project Manager(s). You act as part of a project team translating business and IT requirements into solution architecture designs for large or medium scale systems using your knowledge of technologies and integrating existing products and new developments.
As such you are expected to:
- Take ownership of non-functional requirements specification.
- Review and approve functional and non-functional requirement specifications.
- Design optimal solution architectures that support the business and help realize the target architecture.
- Acting as a coach towards the project team(s).
- Responsible for the overall quality of the solutions (implementation and/or customization)
Crafting the right architecture to solve the problem at hand is only part of architects' responsibilities.
The architect must also:
- Define, document, and communicate it.
- Share your knowledge of the current solutions, technologies and methodologies with your colleagues by participating to communities of practices.
- Protect (own) the solution architecture and protect its integrity and consistency. Make sure everyone is using it, and using it correctly.
- Make sure stakeholders and management understand it (to the detail necessary).
- Make sure that the architecture is not only the right one for operations, but also for deployment and long term maintenance.
Your Profile
- You have a computer science degree or equivalent experience and you have minimum 10 years of experience in the IT sector including 5 years in IT solutions design on complex projects
- Experience in Finance, Human Resources, Data Warehousing is a plus.
- You have excellent communication skills and you can write complex documents and deliver
persuasive presentations - You have the ability to define and analyse user requirements and advise customers on scope and options for business and IT improvements
- You are flexible, pro-active, structured and quality oriented
- You are a team player and you leverage the knowledge of your peers to build the best possible
solution - You speak French and English
Your knowledge/experience
- You are familiar with architecture governance
- You are familiar with at least one modelling tool. Experience with UML is a must, experience with Archimate is a plus.
- You are familiar with at least one modelling tool
- You have a good knowledge of the SOA paradigm
- You have a reasonable knowledge of at least one Application Server
- You have a reasonable knowledge of at least one Enterprise Service Bus
- You have excellent architecture and solution design skills
- Knowledge of Financial processes, Human resource processes and/or Data Warehousing are a plus.
- You must have experience with at least one relational database engine, preferably Oracle RDBMS
- You have excellent skills in multi-technology integration architectures: Cobol/Mainframe, Java EE
If this is of interest to you then please send me your updated CV and full contact details in the first instance and I will call you to discuss in more detail. We are a preferred supplier to the client and have a full job specification available.