Domain Architect in Brussels.

For a client, we are seeking a Domain Architect for our IT organization who has a passion for architecture and change in IT. As a Domain Architect, you will be part of the Architecture guild working for the IT delivery team. The IT delivery team designs, develops, and runs all application chains. The team is divided into different domains/squads with an end-to-end business focus. A domain is considered a business capability area that delivers a continuous value stream to end users, aligned with a specific scope and purpose. It functions as a connected chain of activities, teams, and systems working together to generate outcomes that matter to customers.

Your Impact as a Domain Architect:

As a Domain Architect, you play a pivotal role in shaping the IT landscape to deliver real business value. You are embedded in agile delivery teams, where your architectural expertise ensures that solutions are not only technically sound but also aligned with business priorities. You bridge the gap between Enterprise Architecture principles and domain-specific needs, translating high-level strategies into actionable designs. At the same time, your domain insights help influence and evolve the broader enterprise architecture. Your impact is felt through:

• Clarity: You make architecture understandable and actionable for your teams.
• End-to-End Vision: You ensure solutions fit seamlessly into the overall IT ecosystem.
• Guidance: You support analysts in converting business needs into compliant, scalable solutions.
• Accountability: You take ownership of architectural compliance and integrity throughout delivery.

You collaborate closely with the Domain IT Lead, fellow Architects, the Enterprise Architect, Security Officers, and Scrum teams—ensuring that architecture is not just a blueprint, but a driver of innovation and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architectural Leadership:
  • Own and create the architecture and design of all applications within the domain.
  • Maintain and evolve the domain application roadmap, ensuring alignment with the overall business strategy.
  • Lead initiatives to modernize policy administration systems landscape.
  • Ensure systems are maintainable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards and client expectations.
  • Reinforce standardization and reusability of components and services.
  • Establish transition architecture towards target systems.
  • Design building blocks to support end-to-end business processes around policy administration.
  • Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and compliant.
  • Have a holistic view on different cross-domain initiatives that could influence and support integration landscape to achieve end-to-end design.
• Solution Design & Guidance:
  • Translate business and operational requirements into scalable, reusable, and process-aligned technical architectures.
  • Provide guidance on system design and integration.
  • Ensure systems are designed to support accuracy, availability, and consistency across business functions.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement:
  • You are an active member of the architecture team and work closely with the Domain IT Lead, Architects, Enterprise Architect, Security Officer, and Scrum teams within your scope.

Required Technical Skills & Experience:

• Proven more than 10 years of experience in application architecture, software design, or technical leadership.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT landscapes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic mindset with strong problem-solving, decision-making, and leadership skills.
• Very good knowledge of architectural integration patterns (services, API, event-driven architecture, etc.) and concepts (SOA, componentization, microservices, micro front-ends, etc.).
• Extensive experience in architecture modeling tools and architecture methodology and framework (e.g., Archimate, Orbus).
• Understand Cross APP development knowledge (React Native, React JS).
• Good knowledge of Azure Cloud Services (Azure Solutions Architect Expert is a plus).
• Good knowledge of application design and API design.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• Strategic mindset with strong problem-solving, decision-making, and leadership skills.
• Ability to bridge business strategy and technical architecture with clarity and influence.