Solution Architect

How do you help make a difference?

As a Solution Architect, you grasp the complexity associated with modern platform solutions and break it down into simpler, understandable elements for both engineers and business stakeholders. You facilitate architectural processes, identify desired qualities and constraints, ensure risks and trade-offs are discussed within the involved teams, and guide stakeholders to make informed decisions. You contribute to SNCB/NMBS by ensuring solution architectures evolve in a direction that supports the business case while respecting existing architectural guardrails.

What is your role at Ypto?

As a Solution Architect, you will take on the following responsibilities:

• You ensure that the architecture of the products assigned to you is sound, well understood, and continues to evolve in a direction that best supports the business case and follows existing guardrails.

• You facilitate architectural debates, ensuring architectural decisions are made consciously and that trade-offs and derived risks are clearly understood by both technical teams and client stakeholders.

• You act as a key partner between enterprise and domain architecture teams and solution designers or technical leads.

• You ensure that solutions approved by the architecture board are correctly implemented by validating solution designs and following up on implementation activities.

• You share architectural knowledge with colleagues and contribute to collective expertise.

• You evaluate project constraints, identify alternatives, alleviate risks, perform re-engineering when required, and keep stakeholders informed of architecture-related issues.

Why is this job a good fit for you?

• You hold a Master in Informatics, a Master in Computer Science, a related degree, or have equivalent experience.

• You have at least 5 years of relevant experience as a Software Engineer and a Solution Architect.

You also possess these technical skills:

• You are familiar with the principles, opportunities, and challenges of modern architectural paradigms and know how to apply them.

• You have broad knowledge of Cloud Solutions.

• You have knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

• You have knowledge of database systems including relational, document, key/value, graph, search, and data warehouse technologies.

• You have knowledge of data engineering frameworks.

• You have knowledge of messaging and eventing systems.

• You understand connectivity and networking concepts.

• You have knowledge of communication protocols and technologies including HTTP, WS, REST, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, and GraphQL.

• You are familiar with the challenges of creating secure software and know how to manage them.

• You have proven experience with software engineering practices including SDLC and DevOps.

• You have proven experience with architecture modelling practices and languages including UML, EER, Swagger, and Archimate.

And these soft skills:

• You are always keen to learn new things, share knowledge, embrace change and learn from past experiences.

• You naturally use visual collaboration techniques such as whiteboard discussions to facilitate architectural debates.

• You are able to work effectively in a team and remain open to feedback from colleagues.

• You have excellent communication skills and can communicate effectively in both technical and layman terms while handling the pressure and flexibility of a dynamic company.

• You are fluent in English (spoken and written).

Asset:

• You have an affinity with product design and engineering top-notch digital products.

• You are fluent in one of the local languages (French and/or Dutch)

Diversity Statement

Everyone is unique. That's why we believe it’s important that you can be yourself — it makes Ypto stronger. We therefore place great value on diversity and inclusion.

What can you expect from us?

Choosing Ypto means choosing to contribute to the digital transformation of the Belgian railways. You will have a job with social impact and ample opportunity to make your own contribution. Alongside a healthy work-life balance and a competitive salary, we offer:

• Hybrid working, with a balanced weekly mix of office and remote work, combined with flexible hours.

• 35 days of annual leave.

• A mobility package with a company car (also available via our mobility plan) or alternative mobility choices, complemented by a public transport season ticket.

• A target bonus.

• A comprehensive insurance package, with hospitalisation and dental care for the whole family.

• Coverage of outpatient medical costs.

• Group insurance, including a supplementary pension (cafeteria plan).

• Meal vouchers & eco vouchers.

• Net allowances for hybrid working and an internet allowance.

Where will you be working?

You will work near Brussels-South station and join the Development & Architecture Chapter RTO-team.

What’s next?

• You apply online.

• We take a close look at your CV and check whether it matches the profile you are looking for. We may call you briefly to ask about your motivation and experience.

• We invite you for a first (online) HR interview where you can demonstrate your motivation, experience and expectations. In preparation, we will ask you to complete an online personality questionnaire.

• If the first interview is positive, we invite you for a second technical interview in Brussels. This interview will be with the team, where we’ll discuss the role and how your skills align with the team’s needs.

• If everything goes well, we will make you a contract offer.

• You start your new job!

We reserve the right to adjust or pause this procedure if necessary. Our recruitment team will select the profiles that best match the job requirements to ensure an optimal fit.

Do you have any further questions?

Ypto recruitment
Mail: ypto-recruitment@belgiantrain.be