Solution Architect (Mandate Management)

Location: Brussels, Belgium; 50% work from home.

Company

hirify.global is a banking organization whose CoE Architecture BE team drives technology changes and feature delivery across tribes.

What you will do

• Establish resilient solution architectures for business and IT problems in line with ING Belgium and Group strategy.
• Work with IT and business stakeholders to identify correlations, dependencies, and customer-value opportunities.
• Design end-to-end solutions with engineers and domain architects and guide implementation and deployment.
• Translate business requirements into sustainable technology solutions and document architectural decisions clearly.
• Coordinate complex changes and projects across tribes and act as a connecting point for integrators, architects, engineers, product owners, developers, and customer journey experts.
• Drive solution approaches using knowledge of architecture, application landscapes, infrastructure, business operations, and legislation.

Requirements

• At least 3–5 years of relevant professional experience in solution architecture, software engineering, or IT delivery.
• Affinity with architectural practices, solution design, and translating business requirements into sustainable technology solutions.
• Broad interest in banking technology; knowledge of Mandate Management is an asset.
• Proficiency in English and in Dutch or French is required.
• Strong collaboration, communication, stakeholder management, innovation, and pragmatic decision-making skills.
• Technical understanding of architecture principles, data, privacy, security, scalability, performance, resilience, cost, and ethics.
• Ability to work autonomously as a trusted advisor and sparring partner for engineers, product teams, and architects.
• Ability to balance functional and non-functional requirements and document architectural decisions in a clear, structured manner.

Nice to have

• TOGAF, ArchiMate, and/or public cloud certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with 50% work from home.
• Internal and external training opportunities to support professional development.
• Opportunity to contribute to strategic goals, work on change and project initiatives, and grow within the organization.
• Inclusive culture supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, employee development, and customer and societal impact.
• Collaboration with IT Solution Architects and Domain Architects in self-steering teams.