Solution Architect Azure

Start Date: ASAP

End Date: 31/12/2026

Work Regime: Full-time, 2 days onsite

Location: Antwerpen

Description and Tasks:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Solution Architect with a strong background in IT architecture and cloud-native Azure environments. The ideal candidate combines strategic architectural vision with a hands-on mindset, enabling teams to design and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions across a heterogeneous technology landscape. You will play a central role in defining, guiding, and governing solution architecture principles, while also contributing to operational and lifecycle management (LCM) activities on Azure environments, including platform reliability and system engineering tasks.

Profile and Experience:

Profile:

• Define and govern high-level solution architecture principles, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and long-term strategy.
• Guide and support Agile teams in translating architecture into implementable solution designs, independent of specific technology stacks.
• Design and oversee cloud-native and hybrid solutions on Microsoft Azure, ensuring scalability, security, and resilience.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment across business, functional, and technical domains.
• Act as a technical advisor to teams and architects, facilitating decision-making and ensuring consistent architectural direction.
• Ensure that architecture guidelines and governance frameworks are properly applied and adhered to across all teams.
• Drive non-functional requirements such as performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Help manage the technical lifecycle of applications and platforms, ensuring long-term sustainability and cost efficiency.
• Support and contribute to Azure platform lifecycle management (LCM), including certificate and identity management, platform maintenance and upgrades, monitoring, and operational improvements.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, contributing to continuous improvement and innovation.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent through experience).
• Proven background in Solution Architecture, with at least 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong communication skills are essential, as you will coordinate across a wide variety of stakeholders, including architects, engineers, developers, and business representatives.
• Capable of leading meetings, presenting architectural decisions, and ensuring alignment across teams.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Combine conceptual and strategic thinking with a hands-on and pragmatic mindset, allowing you to bridge the gap between vision and execution.

Optional Experience:

• Broad technical expertise across application, integration, and cloud architecture, with no strict dependency on a single technology stack.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure, including designing and governing cloud environments and services.
• Familiarity with modern architectural patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven architecture, API-first design, BFF).
• Experience with Azure platform operations and LCM topics, such as monitoring, identity, security, certificate management, and platform governance.
• Understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and operational considerations in cloud environments.
• Experience with .NET is considered a plus, but not a primary focus.
• Experience with React is considered a plus, but not a primary focus.
• Comfortable working across both strategic and operational levels, including hands-on technical contributions.