Senior Solution / Software Architect

For one of our clients, Sanoma, Akkodis is looking for an experienced Senior Solution / Software Architect to join an international technology environment.

This is a hands-on architecture role focused on software, applications, ERP and integration architecture rather than pure cloud infrastructure. You will help shape and harmonise the organisation's product and technology landscape while working closely with Product Managers, Product Owners, RTEs, development teams and fellow architects.

Location: Den Bosch / Fully Remote

Hours: 40 hours per week

Start: ASAP

What will you do?

As a Senior Solution / Software Architect, you will translate business and technology requirements into scalable solution architectures and provide architectural guidance to development teams and stakeholders.

Your responsibilities include:

• Defining solution architectures in line with roadmaps, architecture principles and guidelines

• Guiding development teams on architecture and technical design decisions

• Aligning designs and solutions across different stakeholders, teams and initiatives

• Assessing existing applications, platforms and components from both a technical and functional perspective

• Creating architecture documentation for new and existing solutions

• Driving initiatives to centralise, modernise, upgrade or replace applications and platforms

• Contributing to architecture principles, policies and development guidelines

• Supporting lifecycle decisions and business cases for front-office solutions

• Collaborating with international architecture and development teams

• Supporting integration architecture involving APIs, microservices and modular applications

What are we looking for?

• 5+ years of experience as a Solution Architect, preferably within a front-office or back-office application environment

• 3+ years of experience with ERP architecture, such as SAP or Oracle

• Experience with Master Data Management (MDM) and/or Product Information Management (PIM)

• Strong knowledge of C4 Model, TOGAF and/or ArchiMate

• Solid understanding of software architecture and common design patterns

• Strong experience with application and system integrations

• Knowledge of REST APIs, API integration patterns and microservices

• Experience working in Agile/SAFe environments

• Familiarity with AWS

• Experience with Jira, Confluence and Miro

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and business stakeholders

• Experience working in international environments

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Business Information Management or a related field

Nice to have

Experience with one or more of the following would be a strong advantage:

• SAP

• Salesforce

• Magento 2

• Python and/or Java

• Postman

• Modular software development

• Large-scale application modernisation

Important

The ideal candidate combines application architecture, ERP, integrations and software design experience and is comfortable providing technical direction to development teams.

Interested or know someone who could be a good fit? Feel free to apply or reach out to discuss the opportunity.