IT Architect Digital Workplace Solutions

As an IT Architect at Colruyt Group, you play a key role in the design of our IT infrastructure and application landscape. Your decisions form the outlines with which your fellow analysts and developers set to work. The ideal job for IT professionals with a taste for innovation.

You will be working in the IT Service Center Communication & Collaboration.

We are a team of 30 people in Belgium and 10 people in India and we deliver BUILD & RUN IT services towards the Domain Communication & Collaboration. This way we support our Domain’s goal to offer all employees of Colruyt Group effective ways to communicate and collaborate with each other.

What do you do as an IT architect?

• You will be part of the New Digital Workplace product team and work closely with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, Business Architect and Scrum team to realise the Product Roadmap. The main products that are used are Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint Online, coupled with custom application development using .Net & React and hosted in Azure.
• You will design IT solutions that meet the functional and non-functional requirements of the client and are in line with the enterprise IT and reference architecture.
• You will help build our application landscape consisting of on premise and cloud applications, packaged solutions and in-house development.
• You further develop our reference architecture according to your client's needs and in synchronisation with the general IT evolutions.
• You monitor the realisation of the solution you have worked out.
• You document architecture decisions.
• You contribute to the architecture governance by collaborating in the necessary governance processes and/or by participating in the existing governance boards.
• The product & scrum team delivers the product in an agile way using Scrum methodology.

What we expect from you:

• Knowledge and experience
• You have at least 5 years of experience as an IT Architect.
• Knowledge & experience with the Azure development stack (eg App Service, Web Apps, Logic Apps, Functions, CosmosDB, SQL, Blob Storage, Graph)
• Knowledge of security standards and its application within the Microsoft ecosytem (EntraID, Conditional Access, Intune, Purview)
• Integration architecture & experience in application architecture (to support our custom builds and integrations with other systems)
• Conceptual ability – Your designs start from a concept: your client wants to achieve a goal or has a problem. You listen and think along with them. Then you come up with concrete solutions.
• Client-oriented – The client's interests always come first. You give your client well-founded advice and dare to make decisions in complex situations.
• Communicative – You communicate fluently and know how to convince others through your commitment, assertiveness, and accessibility.
• Language skills – You speak Dutch or French and English. This allows you to communicate easily with everyone, including your colleagues in India.

What we offer:

• Impact – You work very closely with your business partner or internal client. You help build his/her vision and strategy.
• Variety and challenge – No two days are the same. You work with many different stakeholders, and you can put your talents to full use in analytical challenges.
• Growth opportunities – You will learn a lot on-the-job, but you will also get the chance to continuously educate yourself, both professionally and personally.
• Pleasant working atmosphere – You will work in an informal environment where your colleagues support you and where you can have a good laugh together.
• Attractive salary package – On top of your net salary, you will also receive fringe benefits such as a company car or mobility budget, profit-sharing, hospitalisation insurance and meal vouchers.