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# Solution Architect - Java Platform Modernisation

- **Company:** Pauwels Consulting
- **Location:** Sint-Gillis, Belgium
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing Security, Code Review, Requirements Management, Software Engineering, Archimate, Togaf
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://europa.eu/eures/portal/jv-se/jv-details/ZDIxM2NlNmMtMzE2OS00YWM3LWIxMGYtZWEwOWM3MTFmYmVhIDM?lang=en

## About the Role

* You have 10+ years of experience with enterprise and solution architecture, governance and requirements management.
 * You have 10+ years of experience as a solution architect on production systems, designing and integrating solutions across multiple technical domains and stakeholders.
 * You master architecture modelling and produce coherent views across business, data, application and technology.
 * You reason in scenarios, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, cost and value.
 * You know integration patterns, APIs, data, infrastructure, cloud and cybersecurity, and understand operability, resilience, continuity, performance and lifecycle.
 * You have experience with architecture reviews, risk analyses and guiding implementations.
 * You have hands-on software development experience recent enough to be credible towards an engineering team.
 * Practical knowledge of TOGAF is recommended; certification and knowledge of security practices and an ITSM framework are a plus.
 * You are fluent in French and/or Dutch and English, spoken and written.

## Description

* Identify stakeholders and analyse and challenge functional, non-functional, regulatory and security requirements.
 * Define the scope, boundaries, assumptions and dependencies of the solution.
 * Build a technical inventory and architecture roadmap covering legacy maintenance, platform modernisation and cybersecurity.
 * Design the target architecture and compare scenarios on benefits, cost, risk, impact and reversibility.
 * Record key decisions in Architecture Decision Records.
 * Run gap analyses, propose transition stages and estimate implementation costs.
 * Prepare architecture reviews and perform conformity reviews during delivery and before go-live.
 * Guide design, development, integration, test, security and operations teams; take part in refinement and do targeted code reviews on service boundaries, interface contracts and error handling.
 * Build and maintain the architecture models in ArchiMate (e.g. Sparx EA) and enforce modelling conventions.
 * Organise knowledge transfer and keep architecture documentation up to date.
 * Be available for the on-call service.