Solution Architect - Contractor - Amsterdam 100% Onsite

We are looking for a Solution Architect with experience in MS Cloud technologies for an EU agency in Amsterdam. This position is 100 on site.

Tasks and responsibilities :

• Lead the creation and review of an endtoend domain architecture and processes to support the strategic requirements of the business. Identify the business benefits of alternative strategies.
• Ensure compliance between business strategies enterprise architecture and technology directions setting strategies policies standards and practices.
• Develop and present business cases for highlevel initiatives and approvals.
• Create and communicate multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the domain design and to allow for both functional and nonfunctional requirements. Identify and evaluates alternative design options and tradeoffs.
• Ensure that domain architecture decisions are justified and documented. Assess and manage associated risks.
• Ensure that platforms and components selected for delivery of a domain specific solution are integrated to achieve domain objectives.
• Provide effort / cost estimates and work breakdown structure.
• Present domain architecture to governance bodies address resulting architectural actions and participate in the overall IT governance structures.
• Collaborates strongly with the architects in developing the solution by applying the agencys architectural principles.
• Partner with Platform Architects from the Strategic Platforms (ISP) department in order to assess and optimize domain functional requirements and augment with technical requirements from the platform architecture.
• Partner with the Enterprise Architect from the CIO Office to ensure that the domain architecture fits into the broader enterprise architecture.
• Partner with Customer Portfolio Leads from the Customer Advocacy Department (ICA) in order to assess and incorporate business needs and requirements to build these into technical solutions and platform architecture.
• Contribute to solutions testing and identify potential improvements to the domain solution processes and to the strategic platforms according to agreed designs / requirements.
• Collaborates with Business Analysis function in identifying and preventing risks from the requirements gathering phase and all through the lifecycle of the solution.
• Supports continuous knowledge