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Enterprise Architect_Brussels (Nearsite) - European Commission

TheWhiteam
Belgium · Part-time · Mid-Senior
Function: Enterprise Architect.

Location: Brussels (BE).

Start date: ASAP.

Duration: Long-term assignment.

Languages: EN (B2) MANDATORY.

Studies: Master´s Degree + all specific skills required – MANDATORY.

Description

Responsibilities

Architecture Design

  • Developing and maintaining enterprise architecture blueprints, covering business processes, information flows, applications, and technology infrastructure.
  • Creating and documenting key architecture deliverables, including:
  • Architectural Decision Records (ADR) – Capturing key technology choices, rationale, and tradeoffs.
  • Solution Architecture Documents (SAD) – Providing detailed solution designs, system interactions, and implementation guidelines.
  • Defining and maintaining a long-term architecture vision, ensuring scalability, flexibility, and sustainability of IT systems.
  • Aligning architecture with business strategy, enabling digital transformation, cloud adoption, and modernization initiatives.
  • Ensuring consistency and integration across enterprise systems through standardized patterns, reusable components, and API-driven architectures.

Standards and Governance

  • Establishing enterprise-wide architecture standards to guide technology selection, system design, and integration patterns.
  • Defining governance frameworks to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements, security policies, and industry best practices.
  • Driving compliance and standardization by implementing architectural review processes and ensuring adherence to approved methodologies.

Collaboration and Communication

  • Engaging with stakeholders (architects, development teams, security teams) to gather requirements, constraints, and strategic goals.
  • Leading architecture review boards to assess technology choices, design decisions, and ensure adherence to enterprise standards.
  • Moderating technical debates to reach consensus on key architectural topics, ensuring that decisions are made in a structured and documented manner (e.g., via Architectural Decision Records – ADRs).
  • Facilitating workshops and design sessions to define system architectures, integration approaches, and cloud adoption strategies.

Specific Expertise MANDATORY

  • Development skills: familiarity with programming languages and development practices to understand application development processes (JEE / .NET / JavaScript etc.).
  • Cloud computing: Understanding of cloud computing concepts and experience with cloud platforms (e.g. Azure / AWS / ServiceNow).
  • Microservices Architecture: deep understanding of distributed systems, service decomposition, and domain-driven design (DDD).
  • Service Mesh Architecture: knowledge of service mesh frameworks, and their role in traffic management and security.
  • Container Orchestration: proficiency in container based solutions (Kubernetes), Docker and containerized workloads for deploying microservices at scale.
  • Event-driven Architecture: understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, Kafka and event sourcing.
  • Middleware: understanding the middleware technologies and their role in integrating different components of an IT architecture deployed in hybrid environments.
  • DevOps and CI/CD: knowledge of DevOps principles and experience with continuous integration and deployment.
  • API Design and Management: knowledge of API design principles and experience in managing APIs for efficient system integration.
  • Emerging Technologies: awareness of emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
  • Security Architecture: knowledge of information system security principles and the ability to design secure systems and infrastructure.
  • Enterprise Architecture Frameworks: proficiency in popular enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or others.

Languages

  • EN (B2) MANDATORY

Education

  • Master’s degree or 5 years of higher education.

Location

Near-site: Remotely in a near-site location allowing the individual to reach the client premises in Brussels within 2 hours by land.

Key Skills

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cloud artificial intelligence continuous integration machine learning microservices javascript kubernetes blockchain docker devops kafka cicd aws ddd ai
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Posted
Jul 16, 2025
Type
Part-time
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Brussels
Company
TheWhiteam

Industries

IT Services IT Consulting

Categories

Information Technology

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