Integration Architect (Azure)
Location : Brussels City Centre (Hybrid)
️ Start Date : January 2026
Language : Good English (mandatory) + fluent in Dutch or French (preferable)
About the Role
We are looking for an Integration Architect to join an IT Integration Digital Center of Excellence (DCoE) within a large enterprise environment.
The integration landscape is evolving rapidly, with a strong focus on API-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, and a strategic migration away from legacy BizTalk infrastructure. Standardization, governance, and monitoring are key pillars to ensure efficient and high-quality delivery.
You will play a central role in defining integration standards, patterns, and architectures, while supporting project teams with your expertise in Azure Integration Services. Collaboration across departments and with multiple IT profiles is a critical success factor for this position.
Key Responsibilities
Integration Architecture & Governance
* Define and promote integration standards, guidelines, and best practices
* Maintain and evolve integration patterns and platforms
* Contribute to the industrialization and continuous improvement of integration processes
* Maintain and enrich integration assets and functional architecture documentation
Project Involvement
* Collaborate on integration projects of various sizes within transversal teams
* Analyze and decompose complex integration requirements
* Design detailed integration solutions aligned with enterprise standards, including:
* Integration flow diagrams
* Interface and message definitions
* Data mappings
* Work closely with integration and domain architects to ensure architectural alignment
* Provide detailed design input and support to integration developers
* Act as Single Point of Contact during the test phase
* Identify scope changes
* Support defect analysis and resolution
* Validate implemented solutions against functional and non-functional requirements
* Provide first-level troubleshooting and analysis in case of incidents
* Communicate progress and proactively propose improvements when needed
Required Skills & Experience (mandatory)
Soft Skills
* Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
* Excellent collaboration and communication skills
* Self-starter, proactive, pragmatic, and flexible
* Ability to work both independently and within cross-functional teams
* Strong documentation and writing capabilities
* Ability to adapt quickly to a complex enterprise environment
Business & Functional Experience
Senior-level experience (5–8 years) in:
* Functional and technical documentation review
* Writing functional specifications
* Data modeling (interfaces, business data models, mappings)
* Integration-focused projects
* Strong knowledge of integration patterns (mapping, orchestration, security, gateways)
* Experience in integration workflow design and functional asset maintenance within a domain
Technical Skills
* Solid experience with Azure Integration Services and related patterns
* Good knowledge of .NET (.NET Framework / .NET 6+), REST / JSON and database concepts (SQL, ETL, data persistence)
Nice to Have
* General technical knowledge (HTTP, certificates, SOAP/XML)
* Experience as a software or application developer
* Experience in testing (test scenarios preparation & execution)
* Experience in large IT organizations (>100 people)
* Background in insurance or financial services
* Experience with external packages, platforms, or heterogeneous environments
* Impact analysis and non-regression testing
* Experience with Document Management Systems