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# Lead Solution Architect

- **Company:** Halian
- **Location:** Antwerpen, Belgium
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Backup Devices, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization Technology, Cloud Platform System, HybridCloud, Cloud Migration
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.be/jobad/bea1c4eccd6d8f659e0f1c2daaf12e3e6e

## About the Role

* Extensive experience in infrastructure, datacenter, cloud, or enterprise architecture, ideally with at least 10 years of relevant professional experience.
 * Strong end-to-end knowledge of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, VDI, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure management platforms.
 * Solid architecture experience across on-premise, hybrid-cloud, and public-cloud environments, with strong expertise in Microsoft Azure.
 * Proven ability to translate complex requirements into architecture principles, technology options, target architectures, decision criteria, and defensible recommendations.
 * Experience leading complex datacenter or cloud transformation assessments and defining high-level migration strategies, dependencies, risks, and lifecycle considerations.
 * Excellent stakeholder-management and written communication skills, with the ability to advise senior leadership, facilitate technical workshops, and produce executive-level architecture documentation in English.

## Description

* Assess the current datacenter environment, infrastructure landscape, technology dependencies, and existing hardware lifecycle constraints.
 * Consolidate business, technical, operational, security, and resilience requirements into clear, vendor-neutral architecture principles.
 * Define target architecture options across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, cloud, backup, disaster recovery, automation, monitoring, and platform management.
 * Evaluate technology solutions and vendors objectively, developing comparison matrices that consider feasibility, complexity, risk, compatibility, vendor lock-in, and strategic fit.
 * Define a high-level migration roadmap, including dependencies, sequencing, operational impacts, key risks, and effort assumptions.
 * Present evidence-based architecture recommendations to senior stakeholders and provide technical inputs for sizing, licensing, lifecycle, support, BOM, and TCO evaluations.


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