📌 Role

Architecture Lead Consultant

🎯 About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Architecture Lead Consultant to take a strategic role in the design, evolution, and governance of a cloud-native, service-oriented platform supporting large-scale distributed systems in a hybrid cloud environment.

The role focuses on defining scalable, secure, and maintainable architecture solutions for complex platforms, ensuring alignment between technical design, product requirements, and enterprise architecture standards.

You will work closely with product owners, domain architects, and engineering teams to translate functional and non-functional requirements into robust architectural designs, while ensuring consistency, interoperability, and long-term sustainability of the platform.

🧠 Responsibilities

Architecture Design

• Design and evolve scalable, modular, and maintainable cloud-native architectures

• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into technical architecture designs

• Define and maintain architecture documentation throughout the product lifecycle

• Establish and govern architecture standards, design principles, and reusable patterns

• Ensure alignment with service-oriented and cloud-native architecture principles

• Provide guidance on security best practices within distributed and Kubernetes-based environments

Technology Evaluation

• Evaluate emerging technologies and tools for adoption within the platform ecosystem

• Support proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives and reference implementations

• Provide recommendations on technology adoption, optimization, and deprecation strategies

• Define architectural guardrails and standards for consistent technology usage

Architecture Guidance & Governance

• Act as a senior advisor for complex architectural decisions and trade-offs

• Support engineering teams in implementing architectural designs and refining solutions

• Facilitate alignment between technical teams and product stakeholders

• Mentor architects and engineers, fostering architectural excellence across teams

• Ensure clear and structured documentation of architectural decisions and services

✅ Mandatory Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of experience as a Lead Architect in critical or enterprise-scale environments (e.g. infrastructure, operations, or regulated systems)

• Strong experience designing cloud-native platforms and distributed systems

• Solid understanding of cloud resource hierarchy and managed service lifecycle

• Proven experience with Kubernetes, microservices, and event-driven architectures (pub-sub, event sourcing, etc.)

• Strong background in CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and observability frameworks

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps tools

• Ability to break down architecture into actionable tasks for engineering teams

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience to support rapid prototyping and POCs

• Deep understanding of system design and distributed architectures

• Fluent English (C1 minimum required)

🌍 Languages

• English – C1 (mandatory)

• German or Ukrainian – C1 (nice to have)

📍 Location

• Brussels

💼 Work Model

• Hybrid model from Brusells