Solution Architect - Embedded expert
In The Pocket3 months ago
Belgium (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Ensure assigned product architectures are sound, understood, and aligned with the business case.
- Facilitate architectural debates and decision-making, making trade-offs explicit and aligning internal teams, clients, and suppliers.
- Communicate complex technical solutions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Partner with sales during pre-sales by capturing prospect needs, shaping solution approaches and offers, and creating realistic plans.
- Perform hands-on proof-of-concept and validation work, including with GenAI.
- Surface architectural risks, constraints, and quality considerations, including software and AI-specific security risks.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer and prior experience in a similar architecture role.
- Fluency in Domain-Driven Design and modern architecture patterns such as microservices, event-driven architecture, RAG, and agentic patterns.
- Broad technical knowledge and the ability to collaborate with subject-matter experts and conduct hands-on validation.
- Understanding of secure software delivery, OWASP, threat modeling, SAST/DAST, and AI-specific risks such as data exposure, prompt injection, and misuse.
- Experience with software engineering and delivery practices, including SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps, and architecture modeling using C4, UML, and ADRs.
- Strong communication, facilitation, storytelling, presentation, and whiteboarding skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic environment with an affinity for product design.
- Proficiency in English and Dutch.
Benefits
- Permanent contract with significant responsibility and impact from the start.
- Competitive salary reflecting experience and contribution.
- 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.
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.