Domain Architect

Our client, a prominent organization in the health insurance sector, is looking for a Senior Domain Architect to own the architecture of a business domain within its central Architecture team. This role aligns business capabilities, business processes and IT solutions, maintains the domain reference architecture, and plays a key part in simplifying and rationalising a complex application landscape as part of a multi-year transformation roadmap. The work is split roughly evenly between enterprise and solution architecture.

Responsibilities include: understanding business needs and objectives, and translating them into target architectures, roadmaps and concrete solutions together with delivery teams and stakeholders; defining, maintaining and evolving the domain architecture and reference architecture in line with enterprise architecture principles and standards; guiding delivery teams in architectural choices and key decisions throughout the lifecycle of initiatives; defining application integration principles and contributing to the modelling of APIs, data flows and data exchanges; assessing the impact of planned changes on applications, interfaces, data, business processes and other architectural domains; identifying opportunities to simplify, rationalise and modernise the application landscape, promoting modular and maintainable architectures; collaborating with Infrastructure, Security, Data and other Domain Architects to ensure overall solution consistency, and taking part in architecture governance forums; and maintaining complete and up-to-date architecture documentation in LeanIX.

Requirements: you have 10+ years of IT experience, including significant experience as a Domain Architect, Application Architect, Solution Architect or in a similar role; you hold a Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent through experience; you hold an architecture certification such as TOGAF, ArchiMate or equivalent; you bring a functional, business-oriented view of architecture and translate business needs into long-term architectural direction, while holding your own in technical discussions; you possess a strong understanding of modern application architectures, distributed systems and integration models; you have good knowledge of Domain-Driven Design, Hexagonal Architecture, API-First, CQRS, Event-Driven Architecture and integration patterns; you bring experience with architecture governance, standards definition and supporting teams in their adoption; you have experience with an Enterprise Architecture Management tool such as LeanIX; you have good knowledge of Agile, DevOps and product-oriented organizations; you're pragmatic and down-to-earth, with strong communication skills towards business, technical and management stakeholders; and you are fluent in English.

Nice to haves: experience in the insurance, health insurance or mutuality sector; hands-on experience with LeanIX; experience with simplification or rationalisation of legacy application landscapes; and knowledge of French and/or Dutch.

Offer: start date ASAP, duration 6 months with possible extension, location Brussels (2 to 3 days per week on site), contract open to both permanent employees and freelancers.