Domain/Solution Architect

About Us : For more than 25 years, ITS Group has been a French ESN specializing in digital transformation, employing around 1,400 employees across 8 agencies in France and 1 in Belgium.

Our expertise: IT infrastructure & operations, cloud & managed services, mobility, workstations & networks, strategy, consulting & AMO, cybersecurity, development of business applications.

ITS Group places its CSR commitment at the heart of its concerns by developing sustainable and responsible digital technology and by promoting the professional and personal development of its employees.

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About the Job : Great assignments await you with our key account clients in rich and varied environments

We are looking for a Domain / Solution Architect to support a large corporate IT department responsible for delivering and maintaining applications across key business functions including HR, Facilities, CIO, CRO and CFO domains.

The environment is dynamic, with both ongoing maintenance activities and multiple transformation projects planned in the coming years. The architect will play a key role as a bridge between business stakeholders and IT teams, ensuring that business needs are translated into robust, scalable and coherent solutions.

You will work in a complex and heterogeneous technical environment and contribute to transversal initiatives such as e-invoicing (PEPPOL), SAP migration strategy and regulatory-driven transformations.

Your missions:

• Act as the link between business teams and IT (functional & technical teams)
• Gather, challenge, consolidate and prioritize business requirements
• Define and design end-to-end solution architectures (functional & technical)
• Propose innovative and pragmatic solutions aligned with business needs and IT constraints
• Ensure consistency with architecture standards, development practices and operational risks
• Support and guide implementation phases while ensuring architectural compliance
• Contribute to application and solution architecture governance
• Facilitate communication and collaboration across stakeholders at all levels

Your activities:

Requirements & Solution Definition

• Collect, analyze and structure business requirements
• Negotiate priorities and propose alternatives when needed
• Define the approach to ensure consistent and reliable solutions
• Design solutions for complex or innovative business problems

Analysis & Design

• Compare solution options (functional, technological, cost) and recommend the best fit
• Define target architectures and possible migration paths
• Perform functional architecture analysis and estimate implementation costs
• Produce architecture documentation (functional & technical)
• Collaborate with business experts and ensure knowledge transfer
• Support functional and technical analysts during implementation

Realization & Governance

• Ensure compliance with architecture standards throughout project lifecycle
• Maintain functional coherence across application domains
• Integrate new business needs into existing systems
• Provide guidance and coaching to development teams

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships with business and IT stakeholders
• Support project leaders and managers in client interactions
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences

You have the following skills:

Soft Skills

• Autonomous, self-starter with strong ownership
• Pragmatic and solution-oriented mindset
• Strong analytical and abstract thinking capabilities
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written & oral)
• Ability to interact with diverse stakeholders (technical & non-technical)
• Hands-on and problem-solving attitude (nice to have)

Business & Functional Skills

• Strong interest and experience in business process analysis
• Solid experience in application and process modeling, functional analysis
• Proven experience in similar roles (Solution / Domain Architecture)
• Strong knowledge of architecture principles (SOA, design patterns, methodologies)
• Ability to design and build functional architecture for complex applications
• Capability to maintain a holistic (“big picture”) view
• Experience in insurance or banking is a plus

Technical Skills

• Good understanding of technologies and software development lifecycle
• Familiarity with integration challenges
• Knowledge of package management
• Proficiency with MS Office tools
• Knowledge of SQL, .NET, ETL is a plus

Languages

• English: Fluent (mandatory)
• Dutch and French: one fluent, the other at least good