For a customer we are looking for a Data Architect.

Start date: March/April 2026

Work location: Brussels (2 days a week onsite)

Language skills: English + one of the two national languages 

Experience level: At least 10 years of experience

Responsibilities:

You play a key role in creating new IT applications or components.
You are involved from formulating the needs to delivering the solution.
You pay a lot of attention to drawing up and keeping track of supporting documents.
You work closely with the solution architect and senior analysts to jointly create the most efficient data models and define migration schedules.
You provide technical expertise in development, operationalization and improvement of ICT processes, applications and services.
As an architect with a specialization in DATA you use the necessary models and methods for mapping architectures and designing new ones support systems.
You ensure that the designs are in accordance are with the architectural principles and fit into the global architecture.
You pay special attention to the challenges associated with the migration of legacy datasets to a new concept organized around microservices powered by message broking.
You support the development teams in finding a solution for them specific complex problems.
You follow the developments in the field closely to respond optimally to new possibilities, taking into account both the strategic needs as the operational context.
You actively participate in the network of architects and the organizational structures that monitor the quality of architecture.

List of generic skills 

Working in a team
Advisor
Communicate and transmit knowledge
Possess an excellent sense of organization and writing skills which allow you to document and clarify architectural concepts, in using adapted models to represent the systems and ensure their consistency with the overall architecture.
Mastering the entire software development cycle, from needs analysis to the delivery.

List of technical skills 

The candidate must have excellent knowledge of technologies used and capabilities to monitor developments (angular, Java, WebLogic, Fortify, Spring/SpringBoot, ActiveMQ Artemis, Docker/Kubernetes, Openshift, Gitlab-CI, ArgoCD, OIDC, OAuth2, Grafana, Kibana, OpenAPI, DevOps, CI/CD)
The candidate must be able to understand the components of the framework (IAM, Sitran, Virtual Printer,...)
The candidate is able to work on the application architecture and the complex development.
Expert Data Modelling
The candidate has a vision of organizing applications into micro-services

List of business knowledge 

The candidate is able to work in a multilingual environment so that the Dutch-speaking and French-speaking colleagues can express themselves (orally and written) in their language without his understanding of the debates being altered.
The candidate is proficient in the business context of applications on which the team works and has technical expertise on the key applications put implemented by the AG PR (FIRST, FINPROF2, BTM2, SECAL, ...), essential for optimize business processes.