Global Enterprise Partners is currently looking for a AS400 Solution Architect for a long term contract with our client in the vicinity of Amsterdam

The Opportunity:

The Solution Architect, iSeries plays a key role in translating business needs into scalable, robust, and future-ready solutions across the companies' core iSeries (AS400) platform.

This role has a regional focus, partnering closely with business and technology teams to support regional priorities, enhancements, and continuous improvement of iSeries applications.

What Your Impact Will Be:

Solution Design & Architecture

• Translate business requirements into end-to-end solution designs for iSeries applications and integrations with enterprise platforms.
• Define scalable, maintainable, and secure architectures aligned with enterprise standards and platform strategy.
• Perform impact analysis for proposed changes, ensuring alignment with existing system landscape and minimizing complexity.
• Drive design decisions across projects, balancing business needs, technical feasibility, and long-term sustainability.
• Collaborate closely with regional business analysts to refine requirements and translate them into scalable and effective solution designs.
• Define and guide application configuration as part of the overall solution design, ensuring alignment with business requirements and architectural standards.

Technology Leadership & Delivery

• Provide hands-on architectural guidance across projects, supporting design, development, testing, and deployment activities.
• Guide development teams on technical design, coding standards, and best practices within the iSeries environment.
• Ensure consistency and quality of solution implementations across regions and initiatives.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development standards, frameworks, and reusable components.
• Support the delivery of regional enhancements and bug fixes across iSeries applications, ensuring solutions align with architectural standards and platform strategy.
• Provide technical guidance on incident resolution and ticket triage, helping teams determine effective and sustainable solutions.
• Guide and validate application configuration during implementation to ensure consistency, quality, and alignment with approved designs.

Integration & Platform Alignment

• Design and guide integrations between iSeries applications and other enterprise platforms, ensuring seamless data flow and process alignment.
• Ensure solutions align with broader enterprise architecture and cross-platform dependencies.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and reuse solutions across regions to reduce duplication and complexity.
• Collaborate closely with iSeries infrastructure teams on platform-related topics such as backups, disaster recovery (DR), and environment stability, ensuring alignment with architectural requirements and business continuity needs.

Qualifications

What We're Looking For:

• 8- 10 years of experience in IBM iSeries (AS400) environments
• Proficiency in RPGLE, CLLE, RPG400, SQLRPGLE, DB2/400
• Solid understanding of ILE concepts (service programs, procedures, modules)
• Experience with batch processing, job scheduling, and system performance tuning
• Hands-on experience with debugging, root cause analysis, and system optimization
• Experience in designing and implementing integrations (eg, EDI or other enterprise platforms)
• Proven experience translating business requirements into functional and technical designs
• Strong understanding of supply chain and Order-to-Cash processes
• Experience performing impact analysis and designing scalable solutions
• Experience guiding development teams and enforcing development standards
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and tools such as ServiceNow/JIRA
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business stakeholders
• Ownership and accountability for deliverables and outcomes
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, global environment
• Flexibility to operate across different roles within projects
• Collaborative mindset with strong stakeholder engagement skills

Are you interested in this opportunity and do you meet the requirements? Please get in touch with Marco Eindhoven of Global Enterprise Partners

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