Belgium: Integration Architect Airspace Industry - Freelance (REF18)

Function description:

In the Role of the Integration Architect you will:

• Develop, implement and execute processes for the definition, maintenance and conformance management of the integration architecture
• Update and oversee the Environment Management team, ensuring that the right integration patterns are maintained within the middleware
• Support the Environment Management team in understanding and elaborating of the capabilities of the middleware platform
• Prepare and oversee implementation of integration solutions between the products in scope using pre-defined capabilities of the integration platform
• Propose improvements to the integration platform, present them both internally and to the customer with clear value analysis, presenting all relevant architecture risks and mitigations
• Set up and maintain contacts with business units to understand business activities, drivers, and requirements; consider solution strategies and alternatives for possible implementation, and establish appropriate information system programs
• Provide architectural leadership in the resolution of inter-program and inter-project issues and advice management, business areas, etc
• Create awareness, promote and communicate the enterprise architecture within the “Technology” division and other business units
• Continuously research and assess new analysis approaches for potential use, and provide recommendations and subject matter expertise regarding trends, technology, tools and services
• Check compliance within the enterprise architecture and reinforce adherence to standards, policies, procedures, etc
• Perform any other task in line with the main purpose of the job

Soft skills :

• Ability to manage stakeholders at a CXO level
• Emotional Intelligence required to deal with people and influence them
• Ability to manage lead, manage and direct a team of multi-disciplinary architects
• Demonstrable ability to distil complex idea into simple concepts which canpresented and conveyed convincingly

Required Qualification:

• Hands on enterprise management experience including use of standard tools (Enterprise Architect credentials such as TOGAF, Open CA, ArchiMate, etc. would be advantage)
• Hands on experience in operating and designing solution based on OpenShift (must have)
• Experience in other technologies and tools including: Elastic Search, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, Istio, MongoDB, Solace, Nginx, Squid, Okta, HashiCorp Vault, Azure
• Experience in designing complex integration and hosting platforms
• Hands on experience in design and operations of Integration, Messaging and Event Streaming solutions
• Air traffic domain experience (Flight, Flow, Routing, Capacity planning)
• Employed/Contracted with large organisations
• Ideally Belgium based – or ability to travel to Belgium on a regular basis for customer intimacy
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant integration architecture experience to perform the advertised tasks
• Experience in developing methods and techniques for modelling technologies
• Relevant experience acquired in the aviation or air transport industry would be considered an advantage
• Communication: Adapts communication to different situations and audiences
• Analytical skills: Applies methodical approach to complex information
• Problem Solving: Anticipates and solves business issues
• Customer focus: Adapts services to respond to customer needs
• Ability to work in a multinational and multicultural environment
• Professional conduct in line with the corporate behaviours, i.e., result#driven, readiness to change, customer focus, integrity and team-player approach

Education: Completed university studies of 4 years (Master’s degree) in a relevant domain (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology)