System Architect/Banking/Belgium based/650 Euros per day

Excellent 12 month + contract for a System Architect who is a European citizen and based in Belgium.

Hybrid role: 2-3 days each week in Mechelen is mandatory

650 Euros per day

ICT knowledge

• Agile Methodologies knowledge
• Backup & Recovery
• CI/CD pipeline
• High-performance computing (HPC)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Technical skills

• Cohesity
• NetApp
• Open Systems
• Veritas NetBackup

Job Description

As System Architect for IaaS Compute & Storage within Group Data Centers (GDC), you define and guard the end to end architecture of on premise infrastructure platforms. You translate strategic direction, risk constraints and operational needs into clear architectural choices for compute and storage services that underpin critical banking workloads.

You work at the intersection of engineering, product management and governance. Beyond designing target architectures, you ensure they are buildable, operable and compliant, guiding teams through life cycle changes, platform evolution, and large transformation programs (eg datacenter renewal, resilience improvements, automation). You are a trusted technical authority who brings clarity, makes trade offs explicit and keeps the long term architecture coherent.

Your Responsibilities

• Own the system architecture for IaaS compute and storage platforms (eg virtualization, cluster design, SAN/NAS, DRP constructs, zoning, and segregation).
• Define and maintain as is and to be architectures, including architectural principles, guardrails and standards aligned with Enterprise Architecture and Assurance expectations.
• Create and evolve the architectural runway: enable upcoming platform capabilities while managing technical debt and life cycle constraints.
• Guide and challenge solution designs proposed by teams, vendors, and integrators; ensure consistency across datacenters and environments.
• Lead architectural decisions around availability, resilience, performance, scalability, recoverability and security, balancing cost, and risk.
• Act as architectural counterpart in major initiatives (eg NewDC, DRP redesign, storage evolution, hypervisor life cycle, automation initiatives).
• Bring architectural topics to the appropriate architecture boards and governance forums; clearly document decisions and rationale.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, SDO, Risk and Security to ensure architectures are operationally sound and auditable.
• Mentor engineers by explaining architectural intent and promoting systems thinking across the teams.
• Should the above match your location, expectations and experience, please get in touch for further details.