Description : Innovation & Sustainability Product Architect. Company : Solvay. Location : Remote in Brussels

Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. Our purpose—we bond people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress—is a call to go beyond, to reinvent future forms of progress and create sustainable shared value for all through the power of science. In a world facing an ever-growing population and quest for resources, we aim to be the driving force triggering the next breakthroughs to enable humanity to advance while protecting the planet we all share.

We bond with customers and partners to address today and tomorrow’s megatrends. As a global leader in Materials, Chemicals and Solutions, Solvay brings advancements in planes, cars, batteries, smart and medical devices, water and air treatment, to solve critical industrial, social and environmental challenges. You can count on our innovative solutions to contribute to safer, cleaner and more sustainable future.

Role Overview

We are building a team that will focus on delivering digital transformation in an agile fashion for the scope of Innovation & Sustainability at Solvay. This position sits as a key partner to this team, aiming at supporting the Product Managers and their respective squads while identifying how they connect between themselves and to the bigger Group picture.

The Product Architect reports to the Head of Prepare The Future and Connected Research Journey and will be part of the Management team. The Connected Research Journey domain encompasses currently several product groups (Research Digitization, Data Acquisition) that will evolve over time, while the Prepare The Future has a focus on our Group Sustainability and New Business Models. The product architect for this domain is accountable for proactively and holistically leading or supporting product development that fits within the overall enterprise architecture and meets the Product Group Strategy.

He/She leads on building the right landscape to deliver step by-step an Innovation & Growth digital platform, with a unified data model and where data flows between the different products. He/She contributes to decisions about which technologies to invest in, including making business cases and supporting value creation assessment. He /she assists in developing a vision and roadmap to execute current and future company goals and objectives to provide best technology.

He/she contributes to the rationalization of applications, estimating business criticality and helping determine principles to engage required transformation.

The Product Architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to the development of a product or a set of products within these Product Groups.

He/She works closely with DevOps / Development teams and suppliers to ensure that the value planned will be delivered in the most optimal way according to the product strategy and the overall value for money objectives linked to the technology strategy.

The Product Architect is also accountable for the integration execution within the scope of their product/product group. Particularly, he/she will discuss extensively with digital teams within the business to shape the path from proof of concept to direct integration within a product group.

We count on you for:

Architectural Leadership:

• Lead the development and design of a robust architectural framework.
• Analyze complex IT application landscapes and optimize existing IT architecture.
• Evaluate the Research OT landscape and contribute to architectural building blocks.
• Develop roadmaps and business cases for architecture implementation and optimization.

Innovation & Integration:

• Proactively contribute to decisions regarding technology investments.
• Assist in developing a vision and roadmap to execute current and future company goals.
• Play a crucial role in the rationalization of applications and guide transformation principles.
• Lead the implementation and integration of technical architecture across product groups, supporting continuous optimization.
• Develop integration processes and interface requirements.

Guidance & Governance:

• Define guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure alignment with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Deliver architectural design for capabilities within your product group stack(s).
• Design and oversee governance activities related to product architecture assurance and compliance.

You will bring:

• Experience: 6+ years of experience, particularly in an innovation-driven, science-focused environment.
• Agility: Proficiency in Agile methodologies (Safe, PI Planning, Agile delivery, etc.) is essential.
• Technological Insight: Strong experience and understanding of technologies related to laboratories and research activities.
• Data Expertise: Experience with building landscapes to harmonize data models from different legacy systems.
• Sustainability Focus: Knowledge of Sustainability topics (product carbon footprint, extra-financial reporting) is an asset.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Self-management
• Visionary thinking
• Result orientation, influence, and impact
• Empowerment and accountability
• Adaptability and curiosity
• Team spirit, relationship building, collective accountability
• Strong leadership capability, executing as appropriate in the areas of responsibility
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technology solutions in business terms, establish rapport, and persuade others.

You will get:

• Competitive salary and benefits package

• 16, or more, weeks of maternity/paternity and co-parenting leave, according to local regulations.

• Training platform for all employees

• Free language courses (24 languages available)

• Free well-being sessions (physical and psychological)

Additional information:

Remote working is allowed: 1-4 days per week

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About us

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Solvay’s purpose is to bond people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. We can only fulfill this purpose with a diverse workforce that feels respected and appreciated, and has equal opportunities to work, grow and thrive. Our differences, visible or not, are valued. As Solvay seeks to promote unity and not uniformity, we invite you - regardless of background, age, gender, race, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability or identity - to consider a future with us.