AI Innovation Coordinator & Solution Architect

Function

We’re looking for an experienced AI Coordination & Innovation Consultant to join our client’s strategic transformation environment within the energy sector. In this high-impact role, you will act as the central point of coordination between business stakeholders, IT teams, governance functions, and external technology partners. You will help shape and guide AI-driven initiatives from intake and assessment through governance, prioritization, implementation, and executive reporting.

Role & Responsibilities

As the AI Coordination & Innovation Consultant, you will drive alignment across multiple stakeholders while ensuring AI initiatives remain secure, compliant, and strategically valuable. Your responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating AI and innovation initiatives across business, IT, architecture, security, compliance, and external vendors
• Managing AI use case intake, feasibility analysis, prioritization, and preparation for strategic decision-making
• Assessing emerging AI capabilities, enterprise AI platforms, generative AI solutions, LLM ecosystems, and agentic AI technologies
• Facilitating the setup and governance of AI platforms, data environments, integrations, access management, logging, and compliance controls
• Supporting governance frameworks related to GDPR, NIS2, EU AI Act, security governance, and data governance
• Contributing to business case development by evaluating value, risks, costs, dependencies, maturity, and organizational impact
• Ensuring architectural alignment with enterprise, data, and solution architecture standards
• Reporting progress, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and steering committees
• Organizing knowledge sharing, stakeholder alignment, awareness sessions, and AI-related training initiatives

Ideal Candidate Profile

Our client is seeking a consultant with a strong combination of architectural expertise, AI knowledge, governance awareness, and stakeholder management capabilities. The ideal candidate brings:

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect within complex enterprise environments
• Strong experience coordinating AI or innovation initiatives in multi-stakeholder organizations
• Demonstrated knowledge of GDPR, NIS2, EU AI Act, security governance, and AI compliance requirements
• Hands-on understanding of security and compliance considerations linked to AI-enabled platforms and tools
• Solid experience with modeling methodologies and frameworks such as Archimate, TOGAF, UML, and Sparx EA
• Strong knowledge of AI concepts including Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, and agentic AI
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical complexity into clear business-oriented language
• Proven experience within the Belgian energy market, including market processes and concepts such as MIG/UMIG, DSOs, TSOs, BRPs, metering, market integrations, and flexibility processes