Who we areAt XPLUS, we have over 100 consultants in a tight-knit community of architects and program managers. Our consultants work at the biggest clients on core programs. We value knowledge-sharing and collaboration very highly, so each consultant continues to develop. And when we're done working and learning, there's still room for some fun on the occasional get-together.About the roleThe role is Lead Solution Architect with strong AI affinity for a long term project.- Provide a technical solution direction that bridges the gap between the AI components, existing services, and end-user interaction.- Work iteratively: you support the team in making choices that both enable experimentation and align with broader architectural principles within the client.- You have experience with AI applications in production environments and know how to responsibly design components such as language models, dialogs, and data integration.- Develop reference solution architecture for AI Agent. Let it evolve with the technological evolutions in the field of AI agents.- Align this solution architecture with the Enterprise Reference Architecture- Collaborate and coordinate with several architects.- Monitor this reference solution architecture in a flexible way: ICT partners will also make proposals for solution and/or technical architecture- Close cooperation with ICT partners who will build Digital Assistant- Validate choices made by ICT partners- Determine and monitor non-functional requirements- Monitor the future orientation of the solutionWho you areYou have minimum 5 years experience as Lead Solution Architect and a proven track record of at least 10 years in IT within large organizations :- GenAI architecture experience a real plus- Modeling according to market standards (pragmatic approach) must have- Solution architecture in Cloud environment- Experience in similar projects, preferably digital assistant or GenAI chatbot with broad external target audience- Working in projects with multiple ICT partners, and particularly in aligning the solution within larger picture.- GenAI architectures, solutions and technologies: LLM, RAG, Graph RAG, prompting, pipelines, model fine tuning, multi-agent solutions- Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and data security- Both low-code and pro-code solutions and frameworks- Fluent in Dutch, + English- Location: regime hybrid, remote & Brussels center- You are based in BelgiumCurious how you can become an XPLUSser?- First, we have a discussion where we take the time to understand what you have done so far, but especially where you want to go.- If we feel the right click, we take you through an assessment/interview by one of our senior architects which results in a report on where you are as an architect.