Location:
Kortrijk, BE
Imagine helping shape the secure cloud, data and AI foundation behind an intelligence engine that supports real-time decision-making and workflow automation in Control Rooms worldwide.
At Barco Control Rooms, you will contribute to software solutions that enable operators across industries such as energy & utilities, transportation, manufacturing, and government to monitor, analyze, and act on complex information streams.
As a System Architect Cloud & Data, you will play a key role in defining and evolving the architecture of a cloud-based data platform within the Barco Control Rooms portfolio, combining strategic architecture leadership with a hands-on approach to technology innovation.
Key Responsibilities
Define and own the end-to-end software architecture of a cloud data platform within the Barco Control Rooms portfolio.
Design and evolve secure, scalable, and sovereign cloud architectures.
Drive the implementation of multi-layered data architectures and data lake solutions.
Establish, deploy, and maintain architecture design governance practices.
Stay hands-on with technology through experiments, proofs of concept, technical validations, and code reviews.
Guide the secure, scalable, and customer-focused integration of AI capabilities into product architectures.
Assess the opportunities and limitations of AI-assisted and AI-enabled systems and provide architectural guidance.
Monitor industry and technology developments within cloud, data, AI, and Control Room domains, and advise product management and product owners on technical roadmap decisions.
Promote a system-wide mindset across software components, teams, and development locations.
Your Profile
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent through experience.
Proven experience designing and evolving cloud-native software architectures operating at scale.
Hands-on mindset with experience building proofs of concept, prototypes, experiments, and technical validations.
Broad software engineering expertise, including serverless architectures, event-driven systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud platforms.
Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, including scalability, reliability, observability, security, and cost optimization.
Knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, identity and access management, data protection, and secure software development practices.
Understanding of modern AI and machine learning concepts, including large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, model evaluation, and AI governance.
Strong learning mindset with a commitment to staying current on developments in cloud technologies and artificial intelligence.
Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain vision, trade-offs, risks, and technical concepts to diverse audiences, including executive stakeholders.
Fluency in spoken and written English.
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google AI technologies such as Vertex AI, Gemini, and AI Platform is considered an asset.
Experience working in international development environments is considered an asset.
Experience in large-scale agile environments involving multiple teams and product owners is considered an asset.
️ We are committed to conducting our business activities with the highest standards of integrity, responsibility and compliance across all aspects of our operations. This includes adherence to applicable laws, regulations and internal policies related to ethical conduct, quality standards, cyber security, sustainability, data protection & confidentiality and safety.
D&I Statement
At Barco, innovation drives everything we do. We believe that diversity fuels creativity, bringing us closer to our colleagues and customers. Inclusion and equity aren't just values—they're core capabilities that propel us toward our shared goals and mission.
