Contract

We are looking for a Solution Architect, with experience in MS Cloud technologies for an EU agency in Amsterdam. This position is 100% on site.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Lead the creation and review of an end-to-end domain architecture and processes to support the strategic requirements of the business. Identify the business benefits of alternative strategies.
  
• Ensure compliance between business strategies, enterprise architecture and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
  
• Develop and present business cases, for high-level initiatives and approvals.
  
• Create and communicate multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the domain design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. Identify and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
  
• Ensure that domain architecture decisions are justified and documented. Assess and manage associated risks.
  
• Ensure that platforms and components selected for delivery of a domain specific solution are integrated to achieve domain objectives.
  
• Provide effort / cost estimates and work breakdown structure.
  
• Present domain architecture to governance bodies, address resulting architectural actions and participate in the overall IT governance structures.
  
• Collaborates strongly with the architects in developing the solution, by applying the agency´s architectural principles.
  
• Partner with Platform Architects from the Strategic Platforms (I-SP) department in order to assess and optimize domain functional requirements and augment with technical requirements from the platform architecture.
  
• Partner with the Enterprise Architect from the CIO Office to ensure that the domain architecture fits into the broader enterprise architecture.
  
• Partner with Customer Portfolio Leads from the Customer Advocacy Department (I-CA) in order to assess and incorporate business needs and requirements to build these into technical solutions and platform architecture.
  
• Contribute to solutions testing and identify potential improvements to the domain solution, processes and to the strategic platforms according to agreed designs/requirements.
  
• Collaborates with Business Analysis function in identifying and preventing risks from the requirements gathering phase and all through the lifecycle of the solution.
  
• Supports continuous knowledge transfer to team members and transparent approach in sharing risks/issues/dependencies.
  
• Identifies potential improvements to the process and to the software products according to agreed designs/requirements.
  

Your profile:

• You have a master's degree in an IT related field.
  
• You have 8 years' experience as Solution Architect.
  
• You have relevant professional qualifications in designing cloud-based solutions (e.g. Azure, PowerApps Portal, MS Dynamics 365, MS SharePoint Online, SAP, SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Salesforce).
  
• You have BCS, TOGAF, SWEBOK or other equivalent and valid architecture certificates.
  
• Strong knowledge Microsoft cloud technologies (Microsoft Dynamics Portals, Microsoft SharePoint Online).
  
• Experience in working with Azure DevOps, JIRA SDLC and ServiceNow modules (IT Operations Management Visibility, IT Service Management Professional and Customer Service Modules) is desired.