The Role
Serves as the architectural authority for enterprise programs, reviewing and approving solution designs through governance forums. Defines target-state and reference architectures, standards, reusable patterns, and platform guardrails. Evaluates technical risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and technical debt while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and compliant. Collaborates with engineering, product, cybersecurity, and enterprise architecture teams across the solution lifecycle, providing guidance from use-case definition through implementation and documenting architectural decisions.
Summary Generated by Built In
As a TA&S Architect / Enterprise Solution Architect, you will
- Act as the architectural authority for the program, reviewing, challenging, and approving solution designs through the Design Authority process.
- Ensure solution designs, platform selections, and implementation approaches align with enterprise architecture principles, platform standards, security requirements, and target-state architecture.
- Provide architectural guidance to strategic use-case working groups from initial definition through implementation and delivery.
- Define and support solution architecture patterns for exposure management, vulnerability remediation, AI-assisted security capabilities, and resilience initiatives.
- Drive architecture consistency across workstreams by promoting platform reuse, simplification, and standardisation.
- Engage early in use-case definition to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and operationally sustainable.
- Evaluate architectural trade-offs, technical risks, dependencies, and technical debt, providing recommendations to stakeholders and governance bodies.
- Collaborate with engineering teams, product owners, cybersecurity teams, and enterprise architects to ensure alignment on solution designs.
- Contribute to target-state architectures, reference architectures, technical standards, and platform guardrails.
- Document architectural decisions, recommendations, and approvals to maintain governance and traceability.
- Ensure approved solutions comply with applicable regulatory, security, resilience, and risk management requirements.
What You Bring to the Table
- 8–10 years of overall professional experience, with extensive experience as a Domain Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Solution Architect in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in enterprise architecture, solution design governance, and architectural decision-making.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, cloud platform strategy, and enterprise technology standards.
- Experience reviewing and approving solution designs through architecture governance or Design Authority forums.
- Understanding of cybersecurity architecture, exposure management, vulnerability remediation, AI-assisted security capabilities, and resilience initiatives.
- Experience developing architecture standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and target-state roadmaps.
- Familiarity with Agile ways of working and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
You should possess the ability to
- Evaluate complex solution designs and make informed architectural recommendations.
- Challenge proposed designs constructively and ensure compliance with enterprise architecture principles.
- Identify architectural risks, dependencies, technical debt, and opportunities for standardisation.
- Translate strategic objectives into scalable, secure, and sustainable architectural solutions.
- Facilitate architectural discussions and achieve alignment among technical and business stakeholders.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and document decisions effectively.
- Drive proactive architectural engagement throughout the solution lifecycle.
- Support governance processes while enabling timely and effective decision-making.
What we bring to the table
- An opportunity to contribute to strategic enterprise architecture initiatives.
- The opportunity to influence architectural standards, technology choices, and strategic security initiatives.
- A collaborative environment involving architecture, engineering, product, and cybersecurity teams.
Let’s Connect
Want to discuss this opportunity in more detail? Feel free to reach out.
Recruiter: Giftson Paul Davidson
Phone: +31 20 369 0609 ; Extn : 151
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giftsonpauldavidson/
Skills Required
- 8-10 years of overall professional experience
- Extensive experience as a Domain Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Solution Architect in complex enterprise environments
- Strong expertise in enterprise architecture, solution design governance, and architectural decision-making
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, cloud platform strategy, and enterprise technology standards
- Experience reviewing and approving solution designs through architecture governance or Design Authority forums
- Understanding of cybersecurity architecture, exposure management, vulnerability remediation, AI-assisted security capabilities, and resilience initiatives
- Experience developing architecture standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and target-state roadmaps
- Familiarity with Agile ways of working and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
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The Company
What We Do
STAFIDE is a Netherlands-based niche technology talent consulting company operating across Europe. It helps organizations identify, recruit, and deploy technology professionals in areas including cybersecurity, cloud engineering, software development, data analytics, ERP, infrastructure, and digital transformation. Its services include recruitment, workforce engagement, secondment, onboarding support, workforce deployment, and workforce analytics that support technology hiring and expansion.
