Application Architect

Job description

Your mission

·  you participate in the definition and management of IS architectures (Applications)
·  you maintain the architectural IS application framework within your IS application domain, in order to be able to consistently fulfil current and foreseeable requirements within your domain
·  you initiate, conceive, plan and construct architectural solutions within your domain integrating a large variety of products, technologies and services in order to optimize its efficiency
·  in the context of BU strategy (cloud first) evaluate requests for new significant project initiatives from the perspective of architectures within your domain, challenge proposed solutions and/or proposes alternatives, review and help to document the feasibility and business cases in order to allow the selection of the best solution while respecting the architectural framework and business requirements
·  you analyse the needs for new project initiatives as related to your domain, and challenge those needs with relevant constraints (architectural, technical, functional, cost, timing, volumes, evolution)
·  you keep track of the technological evolution of IS applications in the market within your IS application domain, and inform the stakeholders of the relevant and interesting opportunities
·  internal interfaces:
·  business departments within BU Benelux
·  IS departments within BU Benelux
·  IS department of ENGIE Group (DDSI, ENGIE Digital & ENGIE IT)
·  IS departments in other BU’s of the groupe (Generation, GEM,…)
·  external interfaces:
·  IS Software & cloud application (Saas,…) providers
·  IS external advice agencies (Gartner,…)

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Your profile

·  you have a university degree or are equivalent through experience
·  you have minimum 3 year experience in IS with strong interest in and knowledge of digital technologies (eg. cloud based service applications,…)
·  technical/business skills:
·  application architecture
·  process analysis
·  process improvement
·  technology overview
·  customer knowledge
·  organizational knowledge
·  behavioural skills:
·  conceptual thinking
·  analysing
·  convincing
·  communicating
·  working together
·  people management skills:
·  planning
·  languages: Dutch, French, English
·  business understanding:
·  high level knowledge of the Products & Services we sell and promote (how it works, key advantages, etc.) and willingness to acquire the necessary detailed knowledge to interact efficiently with the business
·  from strategy to execution: capacity to “zoom in” & “zoom out” very easily
·  creative, flexible, stress resistant: person must show high agility and be able to adapt its attitude and objective in a quickly-changing environment
ENGIE Electrabel offers you

·  a highly competitive salary & fringe benefits package
·  a wide range of training & development opportunities
·  a priority to internal mobility by first presenting new vacancies to our employees
·  a healthy work/life balance is considered as important
·  a wide range of formal and informal networks, a.o. due to ENGIE, the worldwide utilities Group we are part of

Your HR contact person

Erwin 

Workplace: Brussels and occasional travelling to the Netherlands

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Additional Information
·  Posting Date: Aug 23, 2019