Lead Cloud Architect

About the role

At SOFICO, we’re building the future of mobility through Miles, our market-leading platform for leasing, fleet, and mobility operations worldwide. As an international team, we combine innovation, collaboration, and ownership to deliver real impact for our customers, in a culture of continuous learning, mutual support, and shared success.

SOFICO is investing in the platform behind Miles. We are moving from a model where customers host Miles themselves to one where we run it for them, on SOFICO Cloud: standardized, single-tenant environments in Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Our customers are leasing companies, captive finance companies, and banks. The platform they move onto has to carry their operational demands and the regulatory obligations they work under.

From our Ghent office, you will define the architecture and technical strategy for SOFICO Cloud and the shared platform that powers Miles. As the leading authority on platform infrastructure, you will drive alignment in two key directions. Internally, you will set the architectural vision and guide our platform and product teams. Externally, you will represent and advocate that vision to customers, as well as to their security, risk, and audit stakeholders.

What you’ll do...

This role combines platform architecture leadership with a strong customer-facing dimension. As the architectural authority for SOFICO Cloud, you will not only shape the future of our cloud platform but also serve as a trusted advisor to customers, helping them understand our infrastructure strategy, design decisions, and roadmap.

Key responsibilities

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Define and own the target architecture and strategic roadmap for SOFICO Cloud and the shared platform services that underpin Miles. You will steer the architectural vision across both Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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Drive consistency across a large fleet of isolated, single-tenant customer environments by creating a platform experience that feels unified. This includes standardized upgrades, controlled configuration management, reliable observability, and continuous cost optimization at scale.

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Ensure that migrating to SOFICO Cloud delivers tangible operational benefits for customers. The infrastructure, security, resilience, and business continuity responsibilities they entrust to us must be managed with excellence.

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Act as the primary architectural spokesperson for SOFICO Cloud, confidently explaining and defending design choices to customers, as well as their security, risk, compliance, and audit teams. Use these interactions to influence and refine the platform roadmap.

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Establish the architectural foundations on which product teams build, defining standards for Kubernetes, networking, identity and access management, databases, storage, messaging, observability, and service-to-service communication.

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Champion non-functional excellence across the platform and products, driving improvements in availability, scalability, performance, security, operability, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency.