TA&S Enterprise Solution Architect (ID: 4127)
Key Skills
Job Description
- Act as the architectural authority for the program, reviewing, challenging, and approving solution designs through the Design Authority process.
- Ensure solution designs, platform selections, and implementation approaches align with enterprise architecture principles, platform standards, security requirements, and target-state architecture.
- Provide architectural guidance to strategic use-case working groups from initial definition through implementation and delivery.
- Define and support solution architecture patterns for exposure management, vulnerability remediation, AI-assisted security capabilities, and resilience initiatives.
- Drive architecture consistency across workstreams by promoting platform reuse, simplification, and standardisation.
- Engage early in use-case definition to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and operationally sustainable.
- Evaluate architectural trade-offs, technical risks, dependencies, and technical debt, providing recommendations to stakeholders and governance bodies.
- Collaborate with engineering teams, product owners, cybersecurity teams, and enterprise architects to ensure alignment on solution designs.
- Contribute to target-state architectures, reference architectures, technical standards, and platform guardrails.
- Document architectural decisions, recommendations, and approvals to maintain governance and traceability.
- Ensure approved solutions comply with applicable regulatory, security, resilience, and risk management requirements.
- 8–10 years of overall professional experience, with extensive experience as a Domain Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Solution Architect in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in enterprise architecture, solution design governance, and architectural decision-making.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, cloud platform strategy, and enterprise technology standards.
- Experience reviewing and approving solution designs through architecture governance or Design Authority forums.
- Understanding of cybersecurity architecture, exposure management, vulnerability remediation, AI-assisted security capabilities, and resilience initiatives.
- Experience developing architecture standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and target-state roadmaps.
- Familiarity with Agile ways of working and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
- Evaluate complex solution designs and make informed architectural recommendations.
- Challenge proposed designs constructively and ensure compliance with enterprise architecture principles.
- Identify architectural risks, dependencies, technical debt, and opportunities for standardisation.
- Translate strategic objectives into scalable, secure, and sustainable architectural solutions.
- Facilitate architectural discussions and achieve alignment among technical and business stakeholders.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and document decisions effectively.
- Drive proactive architectural engagement throughout the solution lifecycle.
- Support governance processes while enabling timely and effective decision-making.
- An opportunity to contribute to strategic enterprise architecture initiatives.
- The opportunity to influence architectural standards, technology choices, and strategic security initiatives.
- A collaborative environment involving architecture, engineering, product, and cybersecurity teams.
Core Responsibilities
The Enterprise Solution Architect acts as the architectural authority for the program, reviewing and approving solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards. They collaborate with engineering, product, and cybersecurity teams to define architectural patterns and drive consistency across workstreams.
Requirements
Candidates must have 8-10 years of professional experience in complex enterprise environments as a Domain, Enterprise, or Lead Solution Architect. Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, architecture governance, and cybersecurity principles is required.
About STAFIDE
Industry: Staffing and Recruiting
Company size: 11-50 employees
Headquartered in the Netherlands, STAFIDE specializes in Niche Tech Recruitment across Europe, connecting top talent with outstanding opportunities in the IT sector. Our data-driven recruitment model ensures the ideal match between candidates and employers, enhancing both skill alignment and cultural fit. With a strong focus on Skill-Based Hiring, we provide candidates with an in-depth understanding of the organization—whether for permanent positions or temporary assignments (interim opdrachten) like secondment (detachering)—strengthening employer branding for our clients as a recruitment company (uitzendbureau). In today’s fast-evolving tech landscape, we recognize the unique challenges companies face in sourcing highly skilled talent. Our advanced, AI-driven talent intelligence system (ATS) is specifically designed to prioritize Skill-Based Hiring for niche IT roles, empowering organizations to address talent shortages by identifying professionals with the expertise to drive innovation and growth. Whether you’re a company in search of exceptional talent or a professional seeking your next ICT role, STAFIDE is your strategic recruitment (werving en selectie) partner. Our deep expertise in the Dutch market, combined with a steadfast commitment to excellence, makes us the preferred choice for all your recruitment needs.