Solutions Architect

In the context of the Flemish Government, ATOS is looking for a Solution Architect who is able to understand functional and business needs and translate them into pragmatic, implementable technical solutions.

The primary focus is on custom-built applications (backend and frontend), working closely with development teams and customer stakeholders. Experience with non-functional requirements is expected, but always with a practical, delivery-oriented mindset.

Customer / Consultancy focus

• Understand business and functional needs of clients and translate them into concrete technical solutions;
• Advise customers on solution options and support the translation of needs into realistic implementation approaches;
• Contribute to the definition and alignment of solution architectures within the broader context of the customer environment;
• Work closely with customer stakeholders, users, and project teams, building trust through clear communication and sound judgement;
• Interact with a variety of stakeholders in a public-sector context, including functional leads and project sponsors;
• Explain and defend architectural choices in a clear and pragmatic way;
• Be able to negotiate trade-offs between scope, cost, quality, and time;
• Actively support solution choices that improve business processes, innovation, or efficiency;
• Guide customers through change by explaining the impact of architectural decisions;
• Maintain a learning mindset and stay up to date with relevant technologies and patterns;
• Collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams and share knowledge with developers and fellow architects;
• Coach and support developers or junior architects where relevant;
• Be a team player with a collaborative attitude.

Technical focus

• Design and document solution architectures aligned with functional needs and project constraints;
• Support the implementation of architectures covering application, integration, and deployment aspects;
• Experience with middleware and modern architectures such as API gateways, API management, microservices, containers;
• Contribute to alignment between business, application, and technical architecture without owning enterprise-wide governance;
• Support definition of non-functional requirements (performance, availability, security, maintainability);
• Familiar with architecture methods and modelling techniques (e.g. TOGAF concepts, ArchiMate, UML) at a practical level;
• Experience working in agile and DevOps contexts (Scrum, SAFe exposure, CI/CD tooling);
• Take security aspects into account in solution design (authentication, authorization, logging, confidentiality);
• Experience with public, private, or hybrid cloud solutions; container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) are a plus.

• An experienced hands-on solution architect or senior engineer with architectural responsibilities;
• Comfortable working close to development teams and project delivery;
• Experienced in complex application landscapes, without necessarily operating at full enterprise-strategy level;
• Able to structure problems and propose workable solutions rather than theoretical models;
• Strong communication skills; fluent in Dutch (mandatory)
• Customer-oriented, pragmatic, and solution-driven;
• Motivated to support teams and customers in achieving concrete results.