Join a high-impact project in the banking sector to define a sovereign backup strategy across multi-region, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments. You will support IT management in designing a future-proof backup architecture, ensuring data sovereignty, resilience, and regulatory compliance.

Location: Brussels, Belgium (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Contract / Freelance
Industry: Banking / IT Infrastructure
Languages: English (required)
Compensation: Competitive daily rate based on experience

🚀 Key Responsibilities

📄 Assist with documentation of current state assessment, gap analysis, and target state
🔎 Research sovereign cloud providers, multi-cloud capabilities, and sovereign backup vendors; compile comparison matrices
🖥️ Support preparation of reference architectures and diagrams
📝 Draft and format reports, roadmap documentation, and presentation slides
📊 Track dependencies, decision points, risks, and maintain the shared knowledge base

🧩 Expected Deliverables

📌 Assessment Report – documenting current state, risks, and gap analysis
📌 Target Architecture – including conceptual and logical architecture diagrams
📌 Capability Model – recommendations per landing zone
📌 Phased 5-Year Roadmap – milestones, dependencies, and indicative costs
📌 Final Presentation – executive-level summary and recommendations

🌟 Successful Outcome

✅ Clear, actionable strategy covering multi-region, multi-cloud, sovereign providers, on-premises fallback, and sovereign backup
✅ Alignment with business, IT, and security priorities
✅ Future-proof design balancing cloud, multi-cloud, and on-premises fallback
✅ Sovereign backup across all data ensuring data sovereignty
✅ Achievable 5-year roadmap including legacy system decommissioning
✅ Decision support for IT management and architects to make investment and vendor choices

🧠 Skills Required

☁️ Hybrid Cloud Architecture
🔒 Data Sovereignty & Backup, Archiving, Disaster Recovery
🖼️ Visio / Visual Paradigm for diagrams
📊 Experience with creating reference architectures and roadmaps

🌟 Benefits

✨ Work on a strategic, high-visibility banking IT project
🤝 Collaborate with senior architects and IT leadership
🏢 Hybrid working model with flexibility
💰 Competitive daily rate based on experience
🚀 Long-term engagement with extension potential

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