Solution Architect - Freelance

Major Belgian Bank is seeking a Solution Architect with experience or a strong interest in Know Your Customer (KYC) and/or Mortgages. The role focuses on establishing resilient solution architectures for business and IT challenges aligned with the bank's strategy. You will join a team of Solution Architects and Domain Architects within the Architecture Centre of Excellence, collaborating with multiple stakeholders to accelerate feature delivery across Tribes.

Missions

• Work closely with IT and Business stakeholders, understanding the correlation and dependencies between their activities.

• Create designs in collaboration with engineers and Domain Architects, guiding them through deployment.

• Own the end-to-end architecture of KYC and/or Mortgages capabilities, ensuring regulatory compliance, coherent business processes, data flows, and IT solutions.

• Drive complex changes or projects within and across Tribes, translating business requirements into sequences that deliver customer value early.

• Define and align roadmaps between squads across Tribes and other organizational units, managing dependencies thoroughly.

• Act as the connecting pin between colleagues with diverse expertise in self-steering teams (IT Integrators, Solution Architects, Engineers, Domain Architects, Product Owners, Squad Masters, Developers, Customer Journey Experts, etc.).

• Drive the solution approach together with squads, leveraging in-depth knowledge of business and IT — architecture, application landscapes, infrastructure, operations, and legislation.

Tools & Environment

• Banking and IT architecture domain

• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across Tribes

• Architecture frameworks and standards (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate)

• Regulatory and compliance environments related to KYC and Mortgages

• Hybrid working environment (50% office, 50% remote)

Working Conditions

• Location: Brussels (Hybrid – 50% office presence)

• Urgent hire with a fast-moving process