Senior Solution & Integration Architect

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Solution & Integration Architect to lead architectural design, integration strategy, and technical oversight across multiple cross-domain IT initiatives. This role requires a strong balance of enterprise architecture thinking, solution design authority, and deep understanding of how platforms, networks, applications, and cloud environments work together in a modern digital landscape.

Role Overview

You will shape the architectural direction of major transformation efforts, ensuring designs are consistent, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards, while mentoring architects and engineers across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and review multiple solution designs simultaneously, ensuring architectural consistency and alignment with enterprise standards and long‑term target architecture.
• Provide expert guidance on integration strategies across applications, platforms, networks, and cloud environments.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders, offering strategic direction without micromanaging execution.
• Document architectures, decisions, integration patterns, and technical guidance.
• Promote architectural excellence, consistency, and maturity across the organization.
• Mentor architects and engineers, fostering growth and knowledge sharing.
• Support digital transformation, modernization initiatives, and platform evolution.
• Ensure designs incorporate security, scalability, operational resilience, and best practices in cloud and infrastructure architecture.
• Partner with infrastructure, network, and security teams to ensure architectural viability end‑to‑end.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Competencies

Core Architecture Competencies (Must Have)

• Significant experience as a Senior Architect (solution, integration, or enterprise). Engineering experience alone is not sufficient.
• Strong solution architecture principles, system design, and enterprise application landscape knowledge.
• Expertise in:
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Cloud Architecture (Azure preferred)
  • API architecture, IAM & security
  • Integration patterns (event‑driven, API‑led, messaging, etc.)
  • Digital transformation & modernization
  • Application & platform modernization
• Ability to review, challenge, and refine multiple complex designs.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management; able to influence senior leadership.
• Understanding of:
  • Disaster recovery
  • Platform architecture
  • High availabilityIT operations

Technical Requirements

Network & Infrastructure Architecture

• Network architecture fundamentals and end‑to‑end design.
• Cisco ACI
• VMware NSX‑T
• SDN overlays (Software‑Defined Networking)
• Network segmentation, zero trust, routing, micro‑segmentation.

Infrastructure / Platform Engineering

• Deep foundation in:
  • Infrastructure services
  • Platform engineering
  • Virtualization
  • Hybrid cloud networking
  • Security boundaries
  • Operational resilience

Soft Skills

• Persuasive, confident, and able to lead discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Professional, credible, and able to influence architectural decisions clearly.
• Collaborative and supportive, fostering team autonomy while providing strong direction.
• Able to mentor junior and mid‑level architects effectively.

Additional Information

• Location: Randstad area, Netherlands
• On‑site requirement: 1 day per week
• Candidates must already have strong, proven architect experience. Not suitable for engineers looking to step into their first architect role.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Banking