De Lijn - Application & Integration Architect - Planning & Scheduling Systems

As an Application & Integration Architect - Planning & Scheduling Systems, you will work at the intersection of business, IT, and vendors. The Transport Management Systems (TMS) department supports critical processes such as planning, dispatching, and depot management with a strongly integrated application landscape. In doing so, we will contribute to the electrification of De Lijn in the coming years. As an Application & Integration Architect within the transport management systems application team, you will ensure the maintenance of coherence and future-proofing of this landscape. You will monitor the cohesion between business needs, technical choices, and architectural principles, manage vendors, and prevent fragmentation, technical debt, and inefficient custom solutions. This allows TMS to evolve faster and in a more controlled manner, with solutions that are scalable, manageable, and aligned with the broader ICT architecture of De Lijn. You combine analytical insight with a strong feeling for practical solutions.

Specifically:

• You analyze the needs of planners, dispatching, operational teams, and other internal stakeholders. This involves both expert users as well as other architects, analysts, and project staff.
• You translate these needs into clear functional specifications and improvement proposals for our software applications.
• You delve into the existing software architecture and actively contribute ideas regarding modernization, simplification, and user-friendliness.
• You work closely with international software vendors, where English is the working language.
• You challenge vendors on content, quality, and feasibility, and together with internal colleagues, you monitor architectural choices.
• You ensure clear documentation and defend your proposals within the internal architecture board (SparX).

Your work has a direct impact on the daily operations of De Lijn and an indirect impact on the travel comfort of hundreds of thousands of passengers.

Which systems will you work on?

You will work on software solutions for, among others:

• Planning of vehicle and personnel services (medium and short term) for the full offering of De Lijn.
• Depot management and planning of electric vehicles (DMS/CMS).
• Personnel planning in accordance with CAOs (drivers and other employees).
• Follow-up, monitoring, and post-processing of daily execution.
• Integrations within the broader IT landscape of De Lijn.

Must-haves

• At least 5 years of experience (medior level) as a software architect, application architect, or integration architect.
• Experience with autonomously developing solutions and architectural choices, where the emphasis lies primarily on the integration of off-the-shelf software packages.
• Knowledge of SparX EA and ArchiMate.
• Knowledge of architecture and integration patterns.

Plus points

• Affinity with or experience in public transport or within logistics or planning software.
• Experience with application architecture in planning & scheduling, preferably with complex optimization algorithms.
• Experience as a bridge function between functional and technical profiles.

What can you expect?

• You can contribute to innovative change processes with a large societal impact on sustainability.
• Engaging, substantively challenging architectural issues in a critical operational context.
• Close collaboration with business, IT, and international partners.
• An environment with a great variety of technology.
• Space to help shape the future of...

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