IS Life Solution Architect

NextLink is having an existing position as an IS Life Solution Architect in Brussels area Belgium.

General information:

- Start date: ASAP

- Duration: 12 months renewable

- Workload: full time

- Work location: Brussels area Belgium

Description :

In a highly diverse environment we are seeking a Solution Architect to assist us in designing and creating solutions to implement our numerous ongoing and upcoming initiatives.

As a Solution Architect within IS Life you will design end-to-end solutions aligned with business needs and architectural principles while also overseeing their implementation. You will be involved from the project launch phase through to production ensuring alignment among all stakeholders.

You will work within a hybrid landscape:

- A significant portion of applications still runs in a Micro Focus COBOL environment.

- At the same time we are fully committed to modernization and are transitioning and Angular environments applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) architectural principles.

Tasks :

- Solution design: you analyze needs propose various options and design pragmatic sustainable and future-oriented solutions in accordance with AG Insurances IT architectural standards.

- Bridging Business and IT: you translate complex business requirements into robust solutions.

- Stakeholder alignment (IT and Business): you build consensus and foster collaboration from the very start of projects.

- You collaborate closely with the business to identify its true needs as well as with other IS teams within the department cross-functional IS teams (Application Technology Architecture & Strategy) and I&O teams to transition from the architecture phase to the implementation phase.

- Governance and documentation: you focus on solution quality (and adherence to standards) and documentation and you present your architectural solutions to the AG Insurance architecture board.

- You define a short- medium- and long-term vision for IT system development.

- You challenge and validate proposed solutions in collaboration with the technical architecture team.

- You take into account the costs associated with implementing and maintaining/running your solution.

- You are willing to question the status quo and introduce new ideas.

- You ensure that architecture standards are upheld in your solutions.

Profile:

Language: English fluent Dutch fluent OR French fluent

Minimum 3 years of experience

Solution Architect

Functional Designer

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) concepts and asynchronous integrations

Interest in technological innovation

Solution-oriented

Able to synthesize large amounts of information

Creative and flexible

Bonus :

Life insurance

ArchiMate

.NET

Angular

COBOL