Job Description
📋 Tasks and responsibilities
We are looking for a Senior Cloud & Enterprise Architect to help shape and strengthen enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, and secure digital transformation initiatives.
This role combines strategic architecture with hands-on guidance for cloud and infrastructure decisions. The focus is on building resilient, scalable, and secure environments while ensuring alignment between technology choices and business objectives.
- Enterprise Identity Consolidation: design and prepare a phased migration from fragmented legacy and multi-cloud identity providers towards a centralized IAM architecture, with attention to SSO, identity provider integration, Zero Trust principles, reduced authentication friction, and lower administrative overhead.
- Cloud Foundations & Governance: align cloud deployments with enterprise cloud foundations by establishing secure landing zones, governance standards, shared services models, infrastructure-as-code practices, and automated compliance controls.
- Enterprise Architecture: define and support high-availability, hybrid, and multi-cloud target architectures in line with recognized enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Security & Infrastructure: contribute to architecture decisions covering ICT infrastructure, cloud platforms, and IT security.
📝 Your profile
- You are a senior Infrastructure Architect with strong experience in cloud and enterprise architecture.
- You hold the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
- You have proven experience in the design and/or implementation of IAM solutions in environments with at least 1000 users.
- You have completed at least one project in the last 5 years involving the design and/or deployment of a production-ready Cloud Landing Zone in the utility sector.
- You have solid experience with the conception and implementation of AWS and Azure cloud environments.
- You are familiar with modelling techniques and tools such as ArchiMate, TOGAF, UML, and Sparx EA.
- You have strong knowledge of ICT infrastructure, cloud platforms, and IT security.
- You are fluent in English.
- You are fluent in French or Dutch, with at least passive knowledge of the other national language at B1 level.
- Completion of the team experience template is mandatory.
⚠️ This position is offered as a part-time freelance role (30%).
