Job Description
NextLink is having an existing position as a Communication & Content Technologies Architect in Brussels area, Belgium.
General information:
- Start date: ASAP
- Duration: 12 months renewable
- Workload: full time (2 days on site 3 days remote)
- Work location: Brussels area, Belgium
Description:
The Communication & Content Technologies department provides transversal, digital services to our
various businesses, supporting both incoming and outgoing document flows.
We are responsible for:
• Generating communications and documents,
• Sending these to customers and our partners, either via paper or electronically
• Archiving both incoming and outgoing communications,
• Orchestrating through automated processes,
• Testing, following up and supporting our services.
As an experienced Architect, you play a key role in shaping, evolving, and safeguarding the solution
architecture within a complex IT landscape. Working closely with business and IT stakeholders, you ensure coherent, scalable, and sustainable solutions aligned with enterprise strategy and standards.
• Analyze and challenge business requirements, translating them into end-to-end architectural
solutions.
• Assess impacts on the existing architecture and define target evolutions aligned with strategy and standards.
• Define and document functional flows, system interactions, and business rules (UML, architecture diagrams).
• Collaborate with project leaders, technical architects, and development teams to ensure feasibility and consistency.
• Ensure architectural quality, long-term sustainability, and coherence across transversal initiatives.
• Anticipate risks, identify dependencies, and contribute to project and architectural roadmaps.
• Actively contribute to architectural alignment and knowledge sharing across teams and Stakeholders
Profile:
• Language: English fluent + French fluent OR Dutch fluent
• Min. 5 years of professional experience
• Solid and proven experience as a Functional and/or Solution Architect in complex IT
environments, with a strong track record in end ‑to ‑end solution design.
• In ‑depth knowledge of modern architecture principles and patterns (DDD, API ‑based architectures, orchestration, BPM).
• Strong expertise in integration architectures (REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, event ‑driven architectures).
• Proven ability to model and document architectures and processes using UML and Enterprise Architecture tools (ArchiMate is a plus).
• Experience with cloud architectures, ideally on Microsoft Azure, including an understanding of constraints and trade ‑offs.
• Comfortable operating in large, transversal contexts with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and legacy systems.
• Autonomous
• Accountable
• Collaborative
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to bridge business and IT and influence architectural decisions