The Role
Lead design and governance of end-to-end domain architectures on Microsoft cloud platforms. Align business strategy with enterprise architecture, evaluate design options and risks, produce estimates and business cases, collaborate with platform and enterprise architects, support testing, and transfer knowledge to teams while ensuring compliance with architectural principles.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are looking for a Solution Architect, with experience in MS Cloud technologies for an EU agency in Amsterdam. This position is 100% on site.
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Lead the creation and review of an end-to-end domain architecture and processes to support the strategic requirements of the business. Identify the business benefits of alternative strategies.
- Ensure compliance between business strategies, enterprise architecture and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
- Develop and present business cases, for high-level initiatives and approvals.
- Create and communicate multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the domain design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. Identify and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
- Ensure that domain architecture decisions are justified and documented. Assess and manage associated risks.
- Ensure that platforms and components selected for delivery of a domain specific solution are integrated to achieve domain objectives.
- Provide effort / cost estimates and work breakdown structure.
- Present domain architecture to governance bodies, address resulting architectural actions and participate in the overall IT governance structures.
- Collaborates strongly with the architects in developing the solution, by applying the agency´s architectural principles.
- Partner with Platform Architects from the Strategic Platforms (I-SP) department in order to assess and optimize domain functional requirements and augment with technical requirements from the platform architecture.
- Partner with the Enterprise Architect from the CIO Office to ensure that the domain architecture fits into the broader enterprise architecture.
- Partner with Customer Portfolio Leads from the Customer Advocacy Department (I-CA) in order to assess and incorporate business needs and requirements to build these into technical solutions and platform architecture.
- Contribute to solutions testing and identify potential improvements to the domain solution, processes and to the strategic platforms according to agreed designs/requirements.
- Collaborates with Business Analysis function in identifying and preventing risks from the requirements gathering phase and all through the lifecycle of the solution.
- Supports continuous knowledge transfer to team members and transparent approach in sharing risks/issues/dependencies.
- Identifies potential improvements to the process and to the software products according to agreed designs/requirements.
Your profile:
- You have a master's degree in an IT related field.
- You have 8 years' experience as Solution Architect.
- You have relevant professional qualifications in designing cloud-based solutions (e.g. Azure, PowerApps Portal, MS Dynamics 365, MS SharePoint Online, SAP, SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Salesforce).
- You have BCS, TOGAF, SWEBOK or other equivalent and valid architecture certificates.
- Strong knowledge Microsoft cloud technologies (Microsoft Dynamics Portals, Microsoft SharePoint Online).
- Experience in working with Azure DevOps, JIRA SDLC and ServiceNow modules (IT Operations Management Visibility, IT Service Management Professional and Customer Service Modules) is desired.
- Fluent in English (C1).
Interested:Please send your resume to: [email protected]
Skills Required
- Master's degree in an IT related field.
- 8 years' experience as Solution Architect.
- Experience with Microsoft cloud technologies and designing cloud-based solutions (Azure, Power Apps Portal, Dynamics 365, SharePoint Online).
- Relevant professional qualifications for cloud solution design (examples listed: Azure, PowerApps Portal, MS Dynamics 365, MS SharePoint Online, SAP, SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Salesforce).
- Architecture certification such as BCS, TOGAF, SWEBOK or equivalent.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics Portals and Microsoft SharePoint Online.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, JIRA SDLC and ServiceNow modules (ITOM Visibility, ITSM Professional, Customer Service).
- Fluent in English (C1).
- Willingness/ability to work 100% on-site in Amsterdam.
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The Company
What We Do
All European Careers is a full-service IT staffing solutions consultancy operating worldwide. It specializes in hiring and selecting Java talent for leading companies in Europe on a permanent, contingent, or project sourcing basis. The company provides tailor-made recruitment services for technologies including Java, Drupal, Angular, DevOps, and Big Data, focusing on building long-term strategic partnerships with its customers and candidates.






