Vacature

Solution Architect

Antwerpen

Solliciteer

As a Solution Architect within the Digital Domain, you will play a key role in designing and delivering robust, scalable, and customer-focused solutions for our commercial applications , also in bridging business needs and technical implementation.

They ensure that business requirements are clearly understood, technically feasible, well-designed, and ready for development. The role covers frontend, backend, and testing considerations, with strong collaboration across development, architecture, and dependent teams.

Responsibilities

Solution Design & Technical Leadership

  • Translate business requirements into end-to-end functional and technical solutions covering backend, frontend, integrations, and testing considerations.

  • Collaborate with developers to ensure solutions are in alignment with application standards.

  • Document functional and technical approaches so the team has a clear and shared understanding of solution to be implemented.

  • Identify and communicate technical risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies to other teams

  • Highlight testing attention points, including edge cases and non-functional requirements

  • Ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance of designed solutions.

  • Identify potential technical debt and continuous improvement opportunities, and propose mitigation or improvement plans.

Cross-Team & Stakeholder Communication

  • Work closely with stakeholders (Product Owners and Business Analysts) to understand business needs. Support them with user story slicing, acceptance criteria etc.

  • Stay in close contact with System Architects to align on architectural decisions ensuring solutions are consistent with enterprise standards and long-term strategy.

  • Alignment with dependent teams to manage cross-team impacts, interfaces, and delivery alignment.

Documentation

  • Create comprehensive documentation (on Confluence/JIRA) both functional behaviour and for APIs, including API specifications, usage guides, and sample code, to facilitate integration by internal and external developers.

Testing and support

  • Assist in the development/creation of test plans, test cases, and user acceptance testing.

  • Providing guidance and support to developers and project teams

  • Support testing teams during functional and integration testing phases.

Ideal Profile

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

  • 3-5 years of experience in solution design, architecture or senior software engineer roles.

  • Proven experience with web-based applications and integration design.

  • Strong knowledge of API design, microservices, and integration patterns.

  • Experience working in enterprise environments with complex systems and dependencies.

  • Strong problem-solving ability with proven experience.

  • Familiarity with energy sector or B2B portals is a plus.

Technical skills

  • Understanding of JavaScript and TypeScript

  • Hands-on experience in software development

  • Knowledge of front-end and back-end technologies (React, Next.js, NestJs, etc.).

  • Good knowledge of testing strategies (unit, integration and system testing)

  • Familiarity with modern software architecture patterns and best practices

  • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)

Soft Skills

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

  • Proven experience working in Scrum or Agile teams

  • Strong ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • Ability to facilitate discussions and drive alignment across teams