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Puratos is seeking a Digital Experience Architect for its R&D domain in Groot-Bijgaarden, Belgium. This role focuses on designing innovative end-to-end digital experiences for employees and customers, enabling actionable data insights. The architect will partner with business and ICT teams to develop IT roadmaps, drive organizational change, and foster a collaborative culture. Responsibilities include mapping ICT solutions, aligning with business strategy, and guiding implementation teams. The position requires a strong understanding of user journeys, digital transformation, and a collaborative mindset.
Join the Magic
Are you passionate about shaping the future of food? At Puratos, we turn bold ideas into lasting impact through innovation, expertise, and a commitment to well-being.
To strengthen our team in Belgium, we are looking for a:
Digital Architect - Domain R&D (m/w/d)
(Groot-Bijgaarden, Belgium)
Your Mission
Digital transformation is changing our customers’ and employees’ expectations of their digital interactions. The mission is to design innovative end-to-end digital experiences for employees and/or customers that enable actionable data insights. The digital experience architect works in partnership with Business and ICT teams and should have a variety of functional and technical skills.
What you will do
The Digital Architect is a change agent: Able to “walk a mile in the user’s/customer’s shoes” and help drive organizational change. She/he understands the user/customer journey & ensures alignment of future digital solutions with the strategic business objectives. The digital experience architect builds the IT roadmap for their respective domain by connecting strategy/investments to outcomes.
The Digital Architect is an innovator: She/he is creating an approach for thinking about work in novel, transformative ways with the use of digital technologies. She/he organizes and participates in POCs in accordance to the innovation funnel approved priorities. She/He applies agile principles to adjust to the evolving needs of the business and the customers.
The Digital Architect is a facilitator: The experience architect brings people together across teams and business lines to forge consensus and promote a culture of collaboration relating to digital solutions.
The Digital Architect maps the ICT solutions portfolio for their domain with focus on data and process dependencies between the application landscape. She/he aligns with other architects for the cross-domain integration and redesigns the relevant digital processes from an automation/efficiency perspective with focus on business value, future proofness, data insights, risk management and costs optimization. This effort is evolutionary in nature and includes decision making about replacing, upgrading, introducing new technology (e.g. Agentic AI) or retiring ICT applications.
The Digital Architect guides the projects teams during the implementation phase as and when required. She/he is in regular contact the project teams. She/He provides input to project managers and other staff members to develop budgets and timelines for solution roll outs. The Digital Architect can occasionally play to the role of the Project Manager especially for pilot projects or for highly complex projects.
The Digital Architect aligns with the Support and Service team to provide input for the ongoing governance of the digital solutions after the implementation phase.
The Digital Architect works in synergy with the Business Intelligence Team and Data Science team to ensure measurable business outcomes (descriptive/predictive/prescriptive analytics) as part of the end-to-end solution design and implementation.
The Digital Architect collaborates with the Infrastructure Team for all aspects relating to the security footprint of the designed solution.
The Digital Architect collaborates with the Integration Team as well as other technical ICT experts to ensure smooth encapsulation of the future ICT solutions to the current landscape.
The Digital Architect is proving budget input for both CAPEX and OPEX to relevant ICT Managers (Budget Owners) and to the Project Managers. For specific projects and initiatives the Digital Architect will play the role of the Budget Owner.
Position Requirements
What you can expect from Puratos
You will be welcomed in a dynamic work environment where passion for innovation, team spirit and continuous improvement are key. You can count on a competitive salary package with attractive benefits such as:
We are committed to fostering an environment where you can grow, innovate, and make an impact. If you're looking for a workplace that values transparency, development, and passion, we'd love to hear from you!
Our Mission
At Puratos, we believe that food has extraordinary power in people’s lives. As the global leader in bakery, patisserie and chocolate ingredients, we turn innovation and food culture into opportunities for our customers’ success. Together, we want to move the planet forward by creating innovative food solutions for the health and well-being of people everywhere.
With over 11,000 employees in over 85 countries and turnover of 3.4 billion euros (2024), Puratos thrives on innovation, a pioneering spirit, and a unique culture. Our strong growth and commitment to local communities make working at Puratos truly special.
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