For one of our clients in the utility sector, we are looking for an experienced freelance Enterprise Architect to accelerate their digital transformation.
📌 Location: Brussels
🗣️ Languages: English, French, Dutch
📄 Contract: Freelance
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our client is transforming their energy infrastructure and needs a senior Enterprise Architect to define, govern and evolve the enterprise architecture across multiple domains — from data and application architecture to platform and integration architecture.
You will work transversally with business, engineering, security, operations and IT platform teams, ensuring that strategic projects are built on robust, sustainable and compliant architecture standards. You will support the organisation in its transition towards increasingly data-driven, real-time and AI-supported processes.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Define the target-state enterprise architecture and translate business objectives into concrete roadmaps
• Conduct technology evaluations and platform assessments (cloud-native, hybrid, data streaming, containerised systems)
• Establish and steer Architecture Review Boards and define governance artefacts (principles, policies, reference architectures, standards)
• Design real-time data infrastructure for critical business processes.
• Embed Privacy by Design and GDPR compliance into data and integration flows
• Create a solid foundation for AI adoption with attention to data quality, governance and traceability
• Translate complex architectural concepts into clear insights for senior stakeholders
YOUR PROFILE
• 7+ years of experience in software and enterprise architecture.
• Proven track record in enterprise architecture maturity, governance and operating models.
• Strong knowledge of real-time systems, data platforms, integration architecture and cloud-native patterns.
• Familiarity with architecture methodologies such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, ...
• Affinity with security architecture, data protection and compliance in high-critical environments.
• Excellent communication skills, both technical and towards business stakeholders.
• Experience in organisations where 24/7 continuity, safety and compliance are critical is a strong plus.
Interested? Apply via this posting or reach out directly, happy to share more information!