Solution Architect at ART Buitenwereld

Start: July 20, 2026
Duration: December 31, 2026
Rate: max. €128.75
Hours: 32–40 hours per week
Self-employed: Yes
Location: Arnhem (2–3 days in the office)
Screening: Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG)

As a Solution Architect at ART Buitenwereld within the Customer and Design division, you’ll bring the digitalization strategy to life within the organization. You’ll translate complex plans into concrete actions, with a focus on the customer and the smart design of energy grids. In this role, you’ll turn innovative ideas into practical solutions. You’ll make the grid smarter at Alliander. This is a 32–40-hour-per-week position.

The energy transition is impossible without you as a Solution Architect

As a Solution Architect at ART Buitenwereld, you play a crucial role in supporting the energy transition and ensuring reliable, safe, and affordable grids. The challenges posed by this transition require a strong focus on automation and digitization. As a Solution Architect, you are key to successfully navigating these changes.

Within the Agile Release Train (ART), you ensure that development teams work in alignment with the Enterprise Architecture. You make architectural decisions, establish frameworks and guidelines, and guide teams in implementing solutions. You coordinate with Product Owners, Epic Owners, and Lead IT Professionals, and collaborate with Enterprise Architects to validate your decisions and provide direction for the value streams.

We’re building the energy grid of the future for everyone, together with everyone. And as a Solution Architect, you’ll be part of this effort. In this role, you’ll be working on:

• Translate frameworks and direction from enterprise architecture into a relevant solution architecture for the development teams within the value chain.
• Translating business needs into the right solution.
• Developing critical non-functional solution requirements in order to explore alternative solutions and make a decision.
• Ensure that quality requirements for solutions are met based on their intended use, required traceability, and auditability, while also taking into account security requirements and architectural principles.
• Consult with the product manager and release train engineer to guide and support development teams in the area of architecture.
• Encourage collaboration at the tactical level within the ART and beyond, within Alliander and even at the sector level.

You complete the grid at Alliander

Did you know that at Alliander we are made up of several companies? With a large club of professionals, we develop and manage the energy network for millions of residents and entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. We do this together and with attention to our customer. And thanks to our talents, we have full confidence in the energy future of the Netherlands. Together with you, we make the energy transition possible.

A mindset where only the best is good enough is only possible if you have enough energy. And the right work environment gives you that. ART Buitenwereld is made up of smart and dedicated specialists who ensure:

• insight into current developments regarding the grid and grid congestion in Liander’s service area
• facilitating the customer onboarding process by providing maximum insight into customer requests and capacity reservations on the grid
• projections of future demand using smart models
• Support the collection of information from stakeholders such as municipalities and regional authorities, and facilitate discussions with them by providing up-to-date insights into the possibilities on our network

ART External World, with its six teams, facilitates the business processes involved in informing and influencing our complex external environment. With these teams, you help translate insights from the outside world into the organization and work on solutions to make internal information transparent to the outside world. In doing so, ART Buitenwereld supports multiple departments within K&O, such as Energy Planning, Spatial Integration, Strategic Exploration, and Stakeholder Management, thereby directly contributing to Alliander’s strategic chain objectives.

You just make it more energetic

You’ll do that by drawing on your own strengths and talents. And you’ll do it here with us. Can you contribute to this with your logical, analytical way of thinking? Sounds great! Especially if you can complement that with:

• At least a higher vocational education (HBO) level of work and thinking in IT or a technical field
• In-depth knowledge of architecture and design, and familiarity with modern architecture frameworks
• knowledge of software frameworks and common cloud software platforms
• Experience in coordinating and communicating across different teams, with the ability to clearly convey details to team members for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills, enabling you to convey complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively.
• the ability to build strong relationships and foster collaboration both within and outside the (ART).
• You possess natural leadership skills and know how to inspire and guide teams without formal authority, exerting influence through your expertise and persuasiveness.