Lead Architect

Il y a 2 jours

Brussel, Brussel-Hoofdstad, Belgique ThoughtLabs Belgium Temps plein 90 000 € - 120 000 €/an

Note: Only EU Citizen/ Valid work permit

Language: Dutch and/or French and English is required.

  • Define and implement with the existing team, and help the enterprise architect the, governance model, and decision-making framework.
  • Clarify roles, responsibilities, and interfaces between Product, Architecture, and Delivery teams.
  • Drive and monitor the transition plan, ensuring delivery continuity and rapid realization of the target operating model.
  • Identify and remove organizational, process, and stakeholder blockers.
  • Facilitate the integration of Architecture and Product teams by building trust, fostering collaboration, and accelerating adoption of the new ways of working.
  • Create momentum and team cohesion, ensuring the merged organization becomes operational, effective, and self-sustaining within the transition period.
  • Provide regular progress updates and recommendations to leadership, focusing on pragmatic execution and measurable outcomes.
  • Manage the workforce of solution architects across various digital initiatives (projects, products, etc.), including request management, assignments in the Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) tool (SciForma).
  • Serve as a member of the steering group for IT architecture.
  • Implement and ensure standardized deliverables and quality controls across the solution architecture team.
  • Operational follow up of the solution architecture, manage alerts and problems.
  • Act as facilitator and translate vision in operational action

Requirements:

Candidates must meet the following requirements:

  • Experience in transition management and project management (more than 10 years)
  • Dynamic, can work autonomously and take initiative for engaging with people at all levels
  • Result oriented
  • Experience in IT Processes and methodologies, using standards such as ITIL, TOGAF, ArchiMate, Domain Driven Design...
  • Experience with cloud-native Architecture patterns
  • Ability of advocating reference architectures
  • Familiar with Microservices & Event driven architectures
  • Familiar with Gartner Architecture Frameworks (TIME for APM for example)
  • Experience with Modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect (or similar tools)
  • Team player with strong collaboration focus and very good presentation skills
  • Experience with merger situations and following transformations is a plus
  • Notable real-world experience of architecting, designing, and delivering IT products in an agile environment is a plus
  • Good level of Dutch and/or French and English is required.