{"id":3538966,"url":"https://alion.io/job/monizze-lead-architect","title":"Lead Architect","company":{"id":54399,"name":"Monizze","domain":"monizze.be","url":"https://alion.io/company/monizze","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Recruitee","truth_index":null},"role":"Legal","role_family":"Legal","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Brussels, Belgium"],"countries":["BE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Context Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"ISO 27001","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"Laravel","optional":true},{"name":"PCI DSS","optional":true},{"name":"PHP","optional":true},{"name":"React Native","optional":true},{"name":"React.js","optional":true},{"name":"Rest API","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-30T15:28:25Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-30","last_verified_at":"2026-11-03T21:39:24Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"About Monizze\nMonizze is a Belgian HR tech and fintech scale-up of ~150 people, and the challenger in employee benefits and flexible compensation. We issue meal, eco and gift vouchers and help employers build flexible pay packages (cafeteria plan, mobility budget), all on one multi-product platform that handles regulated payments. We move faster than the incumbents, and we're growing fast.\nOur mission: turn complex reward topics into simple, usable solutions, a win-win for workers and employers.\nYour advantages first\nYour purchasing power is optimized - the motto is true for clients & employees\n30 days off per year: 20 legal holidays + 6 ADV/RTT + 4 Monidayzz\nA mobility budget / A company car\nHomeworking flexibility with days of remote work and a monthly allowance to make it comfy\nWork from abroad up to 4 weeks a year (after 6 months @ Monizze)\nBelgian roots, mindset & attitude: a cool and informal atmosphere - one of the best things since waffles\nDisrupting and innovative: we digitalized the market and keep pushing innovation in every aspect\nYour growth is our growth: unlimited learning opportunities (languages, personal growth, hard skills,...)\nYour health and your family's health is covered by our hospitalization insurance\nInternal mobility is regularly an option for anyone looking to evolve or change jobs or departments\nHomeworking opportunities and overall flexibility\nA yearly trip with all your colleagues to celebrate our achievements\nWe do much more for our employees, but we needed space to describe the job! We'd love to tell you about it though, so ask us!\nEngineering at Monizze\nOur engineering organisation is built around agentic coding : our engineers don’t just write code, they lead their agents. Skills, agents and context files are versioned and reviewed with the code. Our standards and Architecture Decision Records are written for people and agents alike. Engineers join each initiative at discovery, alongside Product and UX, and them own its design, build, testing and after-care. Two engineering teams are each led by an Engineering Manager, who coaches +/-7 engineers, makes sure the quality holds and drives agentic adoption engineer by engineer. The Delivery Manager makes sure that what we commit to ships on time and as pitched. The Lead Architect owns the architecture direction and the ADRs and sets the framework for agentic coding. Principal Engineers act as the referents for each stack. One quality bar applies to everyone: be proud of what you ship, and AI-generated code meets the same standard as any other code.\nThe role\nYou make sure Monizze's software evolves in one coherent direction, written down and usable by humans and agents alike.\nYou lead through influence: you stay hands-on, close to the code and the engineers, and your authority comes from the quality of your decisions, the clarity of the standards and the trust you earn.\nRequirements\nWhat You’ll Do\nKeep the architecture coherent across products\ncarry the target architecture (multi-product, shared foundations) and make it understandable to everyone, not only to the people who drew it\n\nown the cross-cutting topics: API contracts, gateway and partner API versioning, orchestration vs. choreography, new service vs. new domain\n\njoin discovery when an initiative goes beyond our agreed ecosystem or spans several stacks, so structural choices are known before the pitch\n\nsurface structural projects early, and bring \"done is done\" discipline to migrations: frozen scope, explicit go, a closing criterion\n\ntake on critical pieces yourself when complexity or urgency calls for it, including during incidents\n\nDrive architecture decisions\nYou turn structural choices into Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), keep that base current with the help of Principal Engineers, and make sure every team and agent follows it. You design how each decision is enforced; Engineering Managers check conformity in their teams.\nspot early where a structural choice is needed and propose the decision\n\nmaintain two sets of ADRs: a short, curated Target that every new component must follow, and a Baseline for existing code that grows one agreed decision at a time\n\nrun the ADR lifecycle, from proposal and review with the relevant engineers to decision and publication , and superseding with a new ADR when a decision changes\n\nattach an enforcement mechanism to every ADR (CI, agent skill or PR review) and have every repo declare which rules apply, so CI and agents load the right ones\n\nbuild consensus among engineers and, when they can't agree, frame the options for the CTO to decide\n\nTurn tech watch into decisions\nTech watch means turning what’s relevant into concrete proposals.\nkeep a living tech radar (Adopt / Trial / Assess / Hold), the entry point for any new technology discussion\n\nrun timeboxed experiments with a clear question: successes become an ADR, a standard or a skill, failures get documented too\n\nbring in external experts when useful, and make sure their findings end in a decision, not a report\n\nLead the shift to agentic coding\nMove the team from developers who write code to engineers who lead their agents. You set the direction and the framework; the Principal Engineers build the skills, agents and tooling within it.\ndefine and regularly revisit the approach: what agents are used for, how, and with which guardrails on critical code (security, payments, card data)\n\nmake the standards agent-ready and sponsor the CI steps and review agents that check PRs against them\n\nmake the skills and agents landscape converge (shared vs. repo-specific) without killing bottom-up initiative\n\ndrive adoption through demos, pairing and onboarding from day one, and track a few meaningful indicators to adjust the course\n\nLead the architecture community \nrun workshops, reviews and decision sessions with Principal Engineers and Software Engineers: the standards are theirs, you make them happen\n\nexplain the why behind decisions, not only the what, to Product, leadership and business stakeholders\n\nwork closely with the CTO, the Delivery Manager and the Engineering Managers to follow-up on architecture risks, experiments and tech debt\n\nWhat this role doesn’t hold\nyou don't manage people: coaching and performance sit with the Engineering Managers\n\nyou don't own delivery, feature design or product priorities. You review and challenge, you don't take over\n\nyou don't have the final say on contested decisions: the CTO arbitrates\n\nyou're not a gatekeeper on every PR. Within the standards, engineers decide\n\nWhat stays yours: whether structural choices are made before the code, whether disagreements actually get decided, and whether engineers see you as a multiplier, not a bottleneck.\nWhat we’re looking for\nYou have already held an architecture role, by title or de facto (for example as a startup CTO, or as an engineering manager who also owned the architecture).\n\nYou have strong experience in software architecture and system design, ideally on multi-product platforms with shared foundations, API contracts and partner integrations.\n\nYou have already led the adoption of agentic coding in a team. You practise it daily and understand context engineering, skills, review loops and their limits.\n\nYou read, challenge and write code on our stack (PHP/Laravel, Vue/TypeScript, React Native, relational databases, REST APIs, Docker, message queues).\n\nYou have aligned several teams around shared standards without hierarchical authority.\n\nYou have recorded decisions in ADRs (or an equivalent) and made standards enforceable through CI, linters and architecture tests.\n\nYou have a solid general knowledge of cloud infrastructure, security and CI/CD. Experience as an infrastructure architect is a plus.\n\nExperience with payments or other regulated environments (PCI DSS, ISO 27001) is a plus.\n\nYou are fluent in English and in French or Dutch\n\nYour profile\nHands-on: you run POCs and spikes regularly, and you take on the critical pieces yourself, whether they are complex or urgent. In a crisis, you're in the room helping to fix it, not watching from the side.\n\nPragmatic: you balance target vision with legacy reality.\n\nCurious but structured: you separate hype from what's useful and prove it with a timeboxed experiment.\n\nA facilitator: you turn a disagreement into clear options and explain a decision to a non-technical audience.\n\nA multiplier: engineers come to you because it helps them move faster.\n\nWhy join Monizze ?\nMonizze sits at the intersection of purchasing power, payments, mobility and employee benefits. A Belgian challenger with genuine ambition and the pace to match. You'll shape how a regulated, multi-product platform evolves, and lead a whole engineering team into agentic coding while the practices are still being written.\nTwo outcomes are always valid here: change the standard, or follow it. 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