IT Domain Architect Energy Sector Brussels ASAP Start Freelance Only

The Domain Architect Asset Management will join the IT Architecture function with a dedicated focus on the Asset Management domain which underpins infrastructure operations and grid reliability.

Your mission is to ensure that the Asset domain IT landscape is coherent secure operable and futureproof while remaining aligned with corporate strategy and regulatory obligations.

This is a pragmatic deliveryoriented architecture role. You will act as a bridge between business strategy and IT execution translating business capabilities into concrete scalable architecture blueprints that support safe and reliable operations.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Work closely with Business Architecture to translate business capabilities into actionable IT roadmaps.
• Transform complex business processes into clear implementable IT architecture blueprints.
• Ensure architectural consistency across solution lifecycle phases (build run evolve retire).

Standards Governance & DecisionMaking

• Define and enforce domainspecific architecture principles aligned with group and local standards.
• Present and defend architectural designs within formal governance bodies.
• Document decisions via Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).
• Prevent architectural drift and manage technical debt.
• Monitor SLA/OLA performance and identify domainlevel risks.

Application & Platform Portfolio Management

• Maintain a single source of truth for the Asset IT portfolio within the Enterprise Architecture repository.
• Conduct portfolio assessments (e.g. TIME 6R) with Business and IT stakeholders.
• Identify reuse and rationalisation opportunities to reduce cost and complexity.
• Guide Solution Architects to ensure alignment with domain strategy and quality standards.

Strategic Advisory

• Perform tradeoff analyses (cost risk complexity timetovalue) to support executive decisionmaking.
• Review Solution Architecture deliverables for domain consistency.
• Develop and maintain domain roadmaps anticipating regulatory technological and system evolution.
• Advise senior stakeholders on longterm architectural implications of assetrelated decisions.

Data Integration & Information Architecture

• Govern asset and operational data models integration patterns and data ownership.
• Ensure interoperability between enterprise systems operational/control systems and analytics platforms.
• Coordinate with Data Architecture teams to ensure semantic consistency and data quality.

Security Resilience & Compliance

• Embed security availability resilience and compliance requirements into domain architectures.
• Ensure alignment with regulatory safety and cybersecurity obligations.
• Define architectural measures for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Qualifications :

Core Competencies

• Strong stakeholder communication skills from executive to technical teams.
• Strategic mindset balancing innovation resilience compliance and operability.
• Collaborative leadership across architecture disciplines.
• Comfortable operating within architectural governance and accountable for domainlevel decisions.

Technical & Professional Experience

• Strong experience with TOGAF and ArchiMate applied pragmatically.
• Handson experience with DomainDriven Design (DDD) Event Storming and Agile Architecture.
• Familiarity with architecture evaluation methods (e.g. ATAM TIME).
• Proven background in Energy & Utilities Asset Management or infrastructureheavy environments.
• Understanding of IT/OT integration safetycritical systems and operational constraints.

Languages

• Nativelevel proficiency in Dutch French or German.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Additional languages are a plus.

Additional Information :

For nonEU candidates

• Must hold a valid work permit for Belgium
• Must have a residence permit confirming right of residence

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time