Communication & Content Technologies Architect
1. Context of the mission / Objective(s) of the job
The Communication & Content Technologies department provides transversal, digital services to our various businesses, supporting both incoming and outgoing document flows. We are responsible for:
- Generating communications and documents,
- Sending these to customers and our partners, either via paper or electronically
- Archiving both incoming and outgoing communications,
- Orchestrating through automated processes,
- Testing, following up and supporting our services.
2. Mission period
Expected Start date: Asap
Duration: 12 months (Depending on project evolution, extension is possible)
3. Language requirement
| Languages | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Mandatory | Preferable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | 3 | 3 | 3 | X | |
| Dutch | 3/1 | 3/1 | 3/1 | X | |
| French | 3/1 | 3/1 | 3/1 | X |
1 = Basic – 2 = Good – 3 = Fluent
4. Localisation
Brussels centre.
5. Required Knowledge and Experience
Personal Skills (soft skills – intangible qualities or traits that enhance our interactions)
Mandatory
- Autonomous
- Accountable
- Collaborative
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to bridge business and IT and influence architectural decisions
Business experience required (work experience)
Mandatory
- Comfortable operating in large, transversal contexts with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and legacy systems.
Technical experience required (hard skills related to physical or digital tools)
Mandatory
- In-depth knowledge of modern architecture principles and patterns (DDD, API-based architectures, orchestration, BPM).
- Strong expertise in integration architectures (REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architectures).
- Proven ability to model and document architectures and processes using UML and Enterprise Architecture tools (ArchiMate is a plus).
- Experience with cloud architectures, ideally on Microsoft Azure, including an understanding of constraints and trade-offs.
Functional experience required (job experience in particular industry and in particular function)
Mandatory
- Solid and proven experience as a Functional and/or Solution Architect in complex IT environments, with a strong track record in end-to-end solution design.
6. Objective of the job
As an experienced Architect, you play a key role in shaping, evolving, and safeguarding the solution architecture within a complex IT landscape. Working closely with business and IT stakeholders, you ensure coherent, scalable, and sustainable solutions aligned with enterprise strategy and standards.
- Analyze and challenge business requirements, translating them into end-to-end architectural solutions.
- Assess impacts on the existing architecture and define target evolutions aligned with strategy and standards.
- Define and document functional flows, system interactions, and business rules (UML, architecture diagrams).
- Collaborate with project leaders, technical architects, and development teams to ensure feasibility and consistency.
- Ensure architectural quality, long-term sustainability, and coherence across transversal initiatives.
- Anticipate risks, identify dependencies, and contribute to project and architectural roadmaps.
- Actively contribute to architectural alignment and knowledge sharing across teams and stakeholders