Software Architect - AI Platform Engineering
East Flanders
Digital - Architecture
Work experience: 10+
Reference number: 90993
Join one of Belgium’s most exciting AI scale-ups at the forefront of innovation in industrial automation, where your insights will shape the future of AI technology. Our client is looking for a dedicated professional ready to tackle exciting challenges in a dynamic environment.
As Software Architect, you’ll own the design and evolution of the company's core AI platform (PaaS) ensuring scalability, reliability, and technical excellence across global deployments.
You’ll bridge product, engineering, and architecture, driving both short-term delivery and long-term platform integrity.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with Product Owners to define functional and non-functional requirements for new platform features.
- Evangelize, document, and evolve the software architecture within and beyond the organization.
- Safeguard maintainability, scalability, testability, and runtime efficiency.
- Review and approve feature designs, ensuring technical alignment and quality standards.
- Coach development teams on technology choices, workflow, and coding best practices.
- Ensure architectural compliance with security, DevOps, and CI/CD standards.
- Evaluate and prototype new tools or technologies relevant to the platform (Python, Kubernetes, Rust, Vue.js, Typescript).
What are we looking for?
- You hold a Master's degree and have a minimum of 5 years of experience in system architecture.
- Master’s degree and at least 5 years of experience in software or system architecture.
- Deep understanding of software design principles, cloud & on-premise deployments, and DevOps pipelines.
- Hands-on background in Python, Rust, Kubernetes, Typescript, and/or Vue.js.
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle (design ? deploy).
- Strong analytical and communication skills; customer-centric mindset.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and ensure architectural consistency.
- Understanding of QA, security, and risk management in software delivery.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Knowledge of Dutch.
- Experience with camera systems or real-time data integration.
- Background in performance optimization across system layers.
- You have experience with cameras and their complex integration into software. (Nice to have)
- You have a good understanding of performance optimizations in various layers of a system. (Nice to have)
What do we offer?
Location: Ghent (hybrid)
Contract: Freelance or Permanent
Duration: Long-term assignment
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