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:

• L anguage: 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