IT Domain Architect (Brussels, BE, 1000)

Function

Join Elia Group as an IT Domain Architect and help shape the digital backbone of Europe’s energy infrastructure.

In this high-impact role, you will drive the evolution of the Asset IT landscape, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and future-ready to support critical grid operations. Acting as a trusted advisor and hands‑on architect, you will bridge business and technology, translating strategic asset management goals into robust, innovative IT solutions that enable reliable and sustainable energy delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy into actionable IT roadmaps and architecture blueprints
• Define and govern architecture principles, standards, and design decisions
• Present and defend architectural solutions in governance forums
• Ensure consistency, quality, and sustainability of IT solutions across their lifecycle
• Manage and optimize the Asset application and product portfolio
• Identify opportunities for simplification, reuse, and cost efficiency
• Support solution architects to align delivery with domain strategy
• Conduct trade-off analyses to guide strategic and investment decisions
• Develop forward-looking domain roadmaps aligned with industry evolution
• Ensure compliance with data, integration, security, and regulatory requirements

Your Profile

• Master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in IT, including a minimum of 5 years in architecture
• Profound knowledge of TOGAF, ArchiMate, Gartner TIME, 6R framework and architecture modelling
• Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design and Agile methodologies
• Experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect is a plus
• Strong communicator, able to engage and influence both business and technical stakeholders
• Strategic thinker with a focus on scalability, resilience, and long-term value
• Collaborative leader working across architecture and delivery teams
• Comfortable driving decisions within governance frameworks
• Strong analytical mindset with experience in architectural assessments
• Background in energy, utilities, or asset-intensive environments is a strong asset
• Fluent in English; knowledge of French, Dutch and/or German is a plus.

Offer

• Salary: a competitive salary package, allowance for representation expenses, year-end bonus, double vacation pay, meal vouchers (€10 per working day), eco-vouchers, sport & culture vouchers, bonuses based on individual and group results.
• Insurance: group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, ambulant care insurance for the whole family and also personal accident insurance.
• Vacation: You will be entitled to 20 vacation days and 5 additional vacation days, 6 local days, 4 exempt days (after 1 year of employment) and up to 5 long-service days (1 day for every 3 years in employment).
• Social fund: Year-end vouchers, birth and marriage allowance. We will also cover part of the cost of glasses, a dental prosthesis or similar needs.
• Communication: you will be given an iPhone, a phone subscription (for work and private use) and a laptop with internet reimbursement.
• Discounts: you will enjoy a 30% discount on your gas and electricity bill.
• Mobility: we will offer you a company car and public transport or a mobility budget.
• Elia shares: Elia will give you the opportunity to subscribe to shares with a discount of 16.66% on the average share price.

Location

Emperor, Brussels (close to central station) + homeworking

Occasional travels to Berlin, Germany