Domain Architect – Corporate, AI and Market

Domain Architect – Corporate, AI and Market (SRQ109749)

Excited to work on a project for a key Belgian player in the energy landscape? The Belgian and European energy landscape is in full swing. Did you know that the organization plays a crucial role in this? As part of a European transmission system operator, the organization ensures the reliability and sustainability of the electricity supply in our country.

Side-by-side with other Contingent Workers and staff, you will play a part in building a sustainable, green and reliable energy infrastructure that stimulates economic growth and reduces our ecological footprint. Only together can we make the biggest impact possible We believe in the power of diversity: we are convinced that an inclusive and diverse work environment leads to more innovation, creativity and better results.

The organization is seeking a high-impact IT Domain Architect to join our Belgian IT Architecture team. This role is specifically focused on the Corporate, AI, Market business domain, which focusses a broad business domain encompassing the enterprise’s corporate capabilities and supporting functions, Artificial Intelligence, a strategic technology domain focused on advancing and governing AI capabilities across the organization and on how the organization interacts with the wider energy market.

As the Domain IT Architect, your mission is to ensure the domain’s IT landscape is coherent, secure, operable, and future‑proof, enabling safe and reliable grid operations while aligning with the organization’s strategy and regulatory obligations.

We aren't just looking for a theorist; we need a pragmatic bridge builder. You will be the vital link between ambitious business initiatives and robust IT realizations. You will work at the intersection of strategy and execution, transforming high-level business capabilities into tangible, scalable technical blueprints.

Key Responsibilities

As a Domain Architect, your mission is to ensure the domain's IT landscape is coherent, future-proof, and aligned with the organization’s strategic goals.

• Architectural Translation & Design: Form a strategic "tandem" with Business Architecture to translate organizational capabilities into actionable IT roadmaps. Convert complex business processes into detailed IT Blueprints that guide development and implementation teams.
• Standards & Governance: Define and enforce domain-specific principles while ensuring alignment with Group and Local principles, standards and reference architectures. Present, justify, and defend architectural designs before the Architectural Review Board (ARB). Formalize logic through Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) to ensure long‑term maintainability. Guard against architectural drift and unmanaged technical debt. Monitor SLA/OLA performance and report domain-level risks.
• Portfolio Management: Maintain a single source of truth for the Asset IT application and platform portfolio within the Enterprise Architecture Repository. Conduct regular portfolio assessments (e.g. Gartner TIME, 6R), factoring in operational criticality. This in close collaboration with Business and IT stakeholders (IT Application Managers). Identify opportunities for application/platform reuse to reduce technical debt and operational costs. Work with solution architects within the IT Domain to ensure solutions are viable across build, run, evolve, and retire phases, and ensure alignment with domain strategy and quality standards.
• Strategic Advisory: Conduct trade‑off analyses (e.g. cost, risk, complexity, time to value) to facilitate executive decision‑making. Perform peer reviews of Solution Architecture deliverables for Asset Domain consistency. Develop and maintain domain roadmaps anticipating regulatory, technological, and energy‑system evolution. Advise senior stakeholders on long term architectural implications of asset strategy decisions.
• Data, Integration & Information Architecture: Work with Data Architects and Solution Architects to govern asset and operational data models, integration patterns, and data ownership. Work with Enterprise Architects and Platform Architects to ensure interoperability between enterprise systems, control systems, and analytics platforms. Coordinate with Data Architecture to ensure semantic consistency and data quality.
• Security, Resilience & Compliance: Work with security and compliance teams to ensure that security, availability, and resilience requirements are embedded into Asset Domain architectures and ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, safety, and cyber obligations. Define architectural measures for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Requirements:

You are a delivery-focused professional who thrives in a dynamic environment where technical rigor, operational reliability, and business agility interse