Communication & Content Technologies Architect

NextLink is having an existing
position as a Communication & Content Technologies Architect in Brussels
area, Belgium.

General information:

- Start date: ASAP

- Duration: 12 months renewable

- Workload: full time (2 days on site
3 days remote)  

- Work location: Brussels area, Belgium

Description:

The Communication & Content
Technologies department provides transversal, digital services to our

various businesses, supporting both
incoming and outgoing document flows.

We are responsible for:

• Generating communications and
documents,

• Sending these to customers and our
partners, either via paper or electronically

• Archiving both incoming and outgoing
communications,

• Orchestrating through automated
processes,

• Testing, following up and supporting
our services.

As an experienced Architect, you play
a key role in shaping, evolving, and safeguarding the solution

architecture within a complex IT
landscape. Working closely with business and IT stakeholders, you ensure coherent,
scalable, and sustainable solutions aligned with enterprise strategy and
standards.

• Analyze and challenge business
requirements, translating them into end -to -end architectural

solutions.

• Assess impacts on the existing
architecture and define target evolutions aligned with strategy and standards.

• Define and document functional
flows, system interactions, and business rules (UML, architecture diagrams).

• Collaborate with project leaders,
technical architects, and development teams to ensure feasibility and
consistency.

• Ensure architectural quality,
long -term sustainability, and coherence across transversal initiatives.

• Anticipate risks, identify
dependencies, and contribute to project and architectural roadmaps.

• Actively contribute to architectural
alignment and knowledge sharing across teams and Stakeholders

Profile:

• Language: English fluent + French fluent OR Dutch
fluent

• Min. 5 years of professional experience

• Solid and proven experience as a Functional and/or Solution
Architect in complex IT

environments, with a strong track record in end‑to‑end solution design.

• In‑depth knowledge of modern
architecture principles and patterns (DDD, API‑based architectures, orchestration, BPM).

• Strong expertise in integration architectures (REST APIs,
asynchronous messaging, event‑driven architectures).

• Proven ability to model and document architectures and
processes using UML and Enterprise Architecture tools (ArchiMate is a plus).

• Experience with cloud architectures, ideally on Microsoft
Azure, including an understanding of constraints and trade‑offs.

• Comfortable operating in large,
transversal contexts with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and legacy
systems.

• Autonomous

• Accountable

• Collaborative

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to bridge business and IT and influence
architectural decisions