Solution Architect
In The Pocket3 months ago
Belgium (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Ensure assigned product architectures are sound, well understood, and aligned with business objectives.
- Facilitate architectural debates and decision-making while clarifying trade-offs, risks, constraints, and quality attributes.
- Communicate technical solutions to engineers, business stakeholders, clients, and suppliers.
- Partner with sales to understand prospect needs, develop solution approaches and offers, and create realistic delivery plans.
- Conduct POCs and hands-on validation, including work using GenAI.
- Apply secure software delivery and AI-risk thinking to architectural decisions.
Requirements
- Background as a software engineer with 5+ years of experience and prior experience in a similar role.
- Fluency in Domain Driven Design and modern architecture patterns such as microservices, event-driven architectures, RAG, and agentic patterns.
- Broad technical knowledge and the ability to collaborate with subject-matter experts.
- Understanding of secure software delivery, including OWASP, threat modelling, SAST, and DAST, as well as AI-specific risks.
- Experience with software engineering and delivery practices, including SDLC, CI/CD, and DevOps.
- Experience with architecture modelling using C4, UML, and ADRs.
- Strong communication, facilitation, whiteboarding, storytelling, and presentation skills.
- Affinity with product design and the ability to work effectively in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
- Proficiency in English and Dutch.
Benefits
- Permanent contract.
- Competitive salary reflecting experience and contribution.
- Hospitalisation insurance and group insurance.
- Meal vouchers and a phone subscription.
- Mobility budget.
- Team events throughout the year.
- Dedicated learning and development budget after six months.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About In The Pocket
In The Pocket is a digital product studio and IT services firm that designs and builds mobile and web applications, cloud platforms, and AI/ML solutions for enterprise and public‑sector clients. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, it is privately held and provides end‑to‑end strategy, design, and engineering. Notable customers include KBC, Colruyt, ENGIE, BMW, Barco, and Payconiq by Bancontact.