Solutions Architect - Antwerp Region

Solutions Architect - Antwerp Region

Responsibilities:

Develop relationships and become an information conduit between IT/SS engineering teams, BU/IT and enterprise architecture functions;

Define and implement effective application architecture directions;

Use and advocate the use of architecture and design best practices, methodologies, and procedures for optimized application delivery;

Document current IT architecture and define the future state architecture based on identified solution gaps, and create the roadmaps to implement;

Provide architecture and process advice, planning guidance, quality assurance, and guidance to all levels of organizations on project approach and solutions;

Translate Strategic Standards Board policies into IT solutions that meet or exceed BU/IT requirements;

Decompose the opportunities into constituent application solutions, with re-usable components;

Harvest intellectual property from engagements or solutions that can be developed into best practices for reuse;

Identify new areas where business value can be generated by further standardizing and leveraging solutions across;

Meet with technical and business leaders to identify and scope the business opportunities and identify potential risks and constraints.

Evaluate new technology, processes and architectural trends and highlight possible business opportunities.

Ensure that solutions leveraging third-party technology complement the "One I/T" and "Managing Out of Legacy" strategies;

Maintain relationships with vendors to understand their application roadmaps;

The Solution Architect is responsible for the definition and guidance of application architecture direction in alignment with business objectives. He/she ensures that new IT investments comply with agreed global IT standards. The successful candidate will have a generic applications design and integration background and is familiar with Enterprise Architecture at all levels. The candidate will have strong and broad knowledge of IT infrastructure as well as specific platforms, including factory systems (ex. CAMSTAR, Werum, LIMS/Labware, Empower and Wonderware) ERP-, CRM- and web-platforms.

The candidate will have senior-level architecture, design, and development responsibilities for globally scalable, operationally sustainable information technology infrastructure solutions, with subject matter expertise focused on Enterprise Servers, database platforms, virtualization, cloud, application Servers, networking (WAN, LAN, isolated computing environments), storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS and backup environment), and associated management software and IT's evolving hardware standards. He/she is required to develop high-level system/functional specifications and to identify the business requirements that drive them. This includes collaborating with engineers, translating customer requirements and functional specifications into detailed technical requirements, and developing those solutions.

This Solution Architect will lead teams to provide technology life cycle capabilities, architecture, design, development, engineering, deployment, and third-tier support. The successful candidate must have senior level subject matter expertise and related experience with the HPUX, Linux, Windows, X86 and IA64 hardware, VMware Virtualization, storage products (HP-XP, HP-EVA, NAS, etc.), backup infrastructure, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database platforms, open source and commercial web- and application-platforms, SAP ERP-platform and associated management tools. Familiarity with information security practices is mandatory. Knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery methodologies and best practices is required. He/she will have excellent technical and non-technical problem-solving and communication skills, and must have experience adopting ITIL and/or other industry best practices to processes and supporting technologies. The incumbent must be an out-of-box thinker capable of working independently, with teams, and/or with leading teams, flexible, adaptable, and self motivated. He/she must have experience with large-scale enterprise server design, complex system deployments and project planning.