A leading national institution committed to financial system stability and public trust is seeking a Senior Solution Architect. The organization plays a key role in maintaining price stability, overseeing the financial system, ensuring secure and efficient payment systems, and providing economic and financial insights.
Mission Context
The organization is undergoing a strategic transformation in two key areas:
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Enterprise Data Governance
- Driven by the EDM (Enterprise Data Management) program
- Supported by IT through a modern data platform, MDM, and data catalog tooling
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Digital Prudential Supervision
- Strategic goal: Becoming a Digital Supervisor
- Focused on enabling digital transformation in prudential supervision
Both initiatives are powered by modern cloud technologies, with approaches ranging from full cloud-native rewrites to targeted application refabrication.
Role Overview
As a Senior Solution Architect, you will collaborate with enterprise architects, product managers, project teams, and IT specialists to design and deliver robust, scalable, and compliant solution architectures. You will ensure alignment with enterprise standards and support both data-driven and application-oriented initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver solution architectures aligned with enterprise standards and strategic goals
- Define and communicate intermediate and final architecture states
- Produce high-level and detailed architecture documentation
- Join project and product teams as an active contributor
- Ensure architectural compliance with business and IT strategies
- Monitor implementation and address deviations
- Build a strong internal network within the IT department
- Gain domain knowledge in data governance, statistics, microdata, and prudential supervision
Required Skills
- Archimate
- Cloud Technologies
- Data & Services Architecture
- Databricks
- Enterprise Architecture Expertise
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft Azure
Technical Expertise
- Enterprise Data Management (EDM) concepts
- Master Data Management (MDM) patterns
- Data Mesh architecture
- Application design: data-centric vs application-centric
- Azure ecosystem: Fabric, Data Factory, Datalake Storage, Key Vault, Container Apps, Azure SQL
- Databricks and Delta Lake framework
Languages
- Dutch or French: Native or bilingual proficiency
- English: Professional working proficiency