Solution Architect

adesso Belgium, who are we? We are an IT (start-up) provider working under the adesso umbrella with proven track record in different industries. The new Belgian entity of adesso is part of the expansion and growth strategy of the adesso group. With more than 10.000 employees spread over 60 locations we are entering an exciting period with our presence in Brussels, the capital of Europe. This strategic workplace will allow us to serve our European clients with our expertise and proven track record in different industries.

As part of adesso’s group ‘’grow together’’ mission, we want to attract talents who are ready for common growth. This means supporting the company’s vision, strategy, and growth in customers, industries, and, of course, the adessi community in Belgium.

Your role

Your impact as IT/Solution Architect

Architecture

• Develop and maintain enterprise, domain, and solution architectures, ensuring alignment across levels.

• Create and evolve domain-level architectures that balance enterprise direction with product team needs.

• Design secure, scalable, high-performing solutions aligned with enterprise and domain standards.

• Identify shared capabilities, reusable components, and integration patterns across domains.

• Apply modern architectural patterns such as microservices, event‑driven design, API-first integration, cloud-native architectures, and zero‑trust principles.

Driving Digital Transformation

• Translate business strategy into technology strategy, multi‑year roadmaps, and target architectures that enable digital transformation.

• Guiding transition toward a digital-first operating model, ensuring technology investments align with business objectives.

• Support transformation programs by ensuring solutions and domains evolve consistently toward the target enterprise architecture.

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Lead and participate in architecture reviews, design boards, and governance forums, ensuring alignment across programs and initiatives.

• Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, reference models, and ensure their adoption across teams.

• Provide technical leadership during key programs, guiding teams toward coherent and compliant architectural decisions.

• Ensure solution designs adhere to security, compliance, performance, and maintainability standards.

• Document architecture decisions, blueprints, integration specifications, and reusable patterns to support transparency and reuse.

• Coach and mentor engineering teams, promoting architectural best practices and technical excellence.

Accelerating Innovation

• Evaluate emerging technologies to assess strategic relevance, enterprise applicability, and readiness.

• Inspire teams by introducing innovative approaches, patterns, and tools that improve agility, scalability, and time-to-market.

• Foster a culture of experimentation and learning within the technology organisation.

• Identify opportunities where innovative technology can create new capabilities, efficiencies, or client value.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, product managers, engineering, and security teams to ensure design cohesion and strategic alignment.

• Act as the architectural lead within your domain, translating enterprise strategy into practical guidance for delivery teams.

• Facilitate alignment workshops, design sessions, and leadership discussions to drive shared understanding across teams.

• Communicate architectural strategy, decisions, and roadmaps in a clear and actionable way to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Contribute to business growth by co-authoring proposals and bids, estimating effort, cost, and risk, and pitching proposed solutions to prospective and existing clients.
  

Your profile

• Experience: 5+ years in IT architecture or related roles.

• Degree: Bachelor’s or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.

• Skills: Architecture Frameworks & Tools, application architecture, modelling, BPMN, enterprise systems, microservices, integration frameworks, security frameworks.

• Clearly in Dutch, French and English (all written and spoken).

• Hybrid employment: you will work on site at the customer’s premises, combined with working at Adesso Brussels and remote homeworking.

Why join adesso Belgium?

• Meaningful work and projects: work within your domain of expertise where you can create value for customers and grow together with the company

• Strategic opinion: your opinion and contribution to the expansion of the company is very valuable and counts! You can give the company direction bringing in your ideas, creativity and vision for future growth!

• Growtogether: with over 400 training courses and our digital learning platform, we support your continuous development.

• Knowledge sharing & building communities: you will contribute in building our knowledge center and DXP community

• Work-Life Balance & Flexibility: Enjoy hybrid working options and a dynamic work environment: we are located nearby the Brussels North Train Station in ‘Gare Maritime - Tour & Taxi’ where with a lot of different facilities are present: food corner, gym, padel courts, …. there is even a skate park :)

• Comprehensive Benefits: Competitive salary, company car with mobility budget, charging card, net allowance, meal vouchers, insurances and 32 days of annual leave.

• Global Reach with Local Expertise: you will be part of a small agile company where our culture code will drive us to success. As part of an international company we are supported in different domains with expertise and top notch reference cases!

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