Solution Architect

Project overview

Solution Architect Sensors & Digital Innovation

For the Sensors department within Customs IT, we are looking for an experienced Solution Architect who can be deployed quickly and can guide complex change initiatives. You will play a key role in the digital transformation of the surveillance and detection domain, with a specific focus on Scan & Detect, AI, Video Management, E-commerce, and sensor technology.

You will connect business, technology, and suppliers, contribute to both solution and system architecture levels, and ensure coherence within the IT landscape. You will also ensure that solutions comply with architectural frameworks, security requirements, and laws and regulations.

Background of the assignment

Customs faces a major challenge in the coming years due to the strong growth in goods flows. To perform our core tasks faster, better, and more efficiently, we aim to optimally utilize sensor technology and intelligently combine and analyze data from internal and external sources. The Data & Digitalization department plays an important role in this and supports the digital transformation of Customs.

Within ART Sensors, we work on the IT provisions related to the sensor landscape, including camera, scan, and detection solutions. For the further development of this landscape, we are looking for an experienced Solution Architect who can connect architectural challenges with business objectives and technological developments.

The initial focus of the assignment is on establishing functional and non-functional requirements for the IT systems and infrastructure within the sensor landscape, to support a tender process for camera surveillance for border control. Additionally, you will work on designing future-proof solutions for existing and new provisions in the areas of Scan & Detect, Video Management, AI, and sensor technology. You will translate these designs into concrete architectural products and requirements that serve as a basis for future tenders and further development of the domain.

Job requirements

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Competencies

The Tax and Customs Administration's IT organization is responsible for and provides ICT services. The majority of applications are currently developed, maintained, and managed in-house by the IT organization in its own data center. In addition to ensuring continuity for the large-scale assessment and collection processes that take place in a solid, stable environment, there is also a strong focus on modernizing the IT landscape. This is done partly internally by utilizing existing expertise, but also by attracting (ready-made) solutions and expertise from the market.

• Enterprise Architecture frameworks and languages such as TOGAF, Archimate, SAFe, and Lean.
• Experience with security-by-design and compliance, CISSP, CISM.
• 8 years of higher professional education (HBO) work and thinking level.
• 5 years of experience as a Solution Architect or IT Architect in complex IT environments.
• 2 years of experience with platform renewal and integration of hardware/software (preferably sensor technology).
• Minimum HBO (higher professional education) degree in Computer Science, Technical Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Solution Architect or IT Architect in complex IT environments.
• Demonstrable experience with tender processes and supplier management.
• Experience with platform renewal and integration of hardware/software (preferably sensor technology).
• Certifications: TOGAF (must), knowledge of Archimate and Enterprise Architecture frameworks.
• Broad and deep knowledge of IT architecture: from integration architecture and security-by-design to data, AI, and digital services.
• Strong in stakeholder management and organizational sensitivity.
• Education in IT architecture, Technical Business Administration, or equivalent.
• Certificates such as ITIL, Prince2, SAFe, Scrum.
• Experience with sensor technology and IoT integrations.
• Experience with cloud migrations and hybrid architectures.
• Experience in the public sector and knowledge of laws and regulations (GDPR, BIO).
• analyzing
• entrepreneurial
• planning and organizing
• motivating
• results-oriented

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 1 month
• Location: Utrecht, NL
• Languages: Dutch