AI Solution Architect
In The Pocket26 days ago
Belgium (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve solution architectures spanning products, integrations, data, infrastructure, security, and AI.
- Lead architectural decisions, document trade-offs in ADRs, and align internal teams, clients, and suppliers.
- Design AI-powered agents, retrieval systems, assistants, document analysis, and advanced search solutions.
- Evaluate foundation models, custom models, RAG, fine-tuning, managed cloud services, self-hosting, agents, workflows, and human oversight.
- Design for scaling, cost control, evaluation, observability, LLMOps/MLOps, security, governance, access control, explainability, GDPR, and the EU AI Act.
- Support pre-sales by gathering needs, shaping solutions and offers, and translating AI ambitions into buildable plans.
- Build hands-on proofs of concept, including GenAI prototypes, and stay close to delivery teams.
- Mentor engineers and tech leads, conduct design reviews and technical interviews, and contribute to reference architectures and standards.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience as a software engineer plus experience as a solution architect or in a similar role.
- Fluency in Domain-Driven Design and modern patterns including microservices, event-driven, RAG, and agentic architectures.
- Experience with SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps, C4, UML, ADRs, OWASP, threat modeling, SAST, and DAST.
- Production experience designing and shipping LLM-based solutions, including understanding of their capabilities, limitations, risks, and costs.
- Knowledge of retrieval, embeddings, vector databases, agents, tools such as MCP, evaluation, and AI services from Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Ability to code sufficiently to build convincing proofs of concept and make pragmatic architectural trade-offs.
- Strong communication, facilitation, storytelling, presentation, mentoring, and collaboration skills.
- Fluency in English and Dutch.
Benefits
- Permanent contract with responsibility and meaningful impact from day one.
- Competitive salary reflecting experience and value contributed.
- Hospitalisation and group insurance, meal vouchers, phone subscription, and other benefits.
- Mobility budget.
- Team events throughout the year.
- Dedicated learning and development budget after six months.
- The role involves working closely with multidisciplinary teams and clients across Europe.
Tech Stack
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.