Our client is looking for an Expert Enterprise Architect
Service description:
- Lead the definition and continuous improvement of the governance framework, including principles, standards, policies, reference architectures, and golden scenarios, within a clear ARB decision workflow (decision packs, traceability and escalation path).
- Contribute to the implementation of a federated target operating model and ensure alignment with Digital Platform (EDP) (brand) by translating EDP guardrails into consumable guidance for local delivery.
- Support the Head of IT Architecture in strategic studies, evaluations, and decision-making discussions.
- Coach and provide guidance to other architecture roles across the organization.
- Communicate the application strategy and related processes to business and IT stakeholders within the Group (brand).
- Collect and analyze business gaps—using business and IT surveys—to assess and evaluate the IT landscape, in close collaboration with business architecture.
- Conduct cross-domain trade-off analyses using industry-recognized methods (e.g., ATAM) and cost-benefit analyses (e.g., CBAM) to deliver well-founded architectural recommendations.
- Give directions to maintain and evolve the application portfolio in collaboration with application owners and key stakeholders.
- Gather application-related information (e.g., cost data) as input for analysis leveraging standard methods such as CBAM.
- Maintain the enterprise architecture repository—including the architecture decision record (ADR) repository with clear compliance levels (mandatory versus recommendation)—as a single source of truth for all architecture artefacts, models, and decisions, to prevent decision drift.
- Validate architectural recommendations with senior business and IT management.
- Manage the Architecture Vision Document and contribute to the development of an enterprise‐wide IT roadmap encompassing current and future initiatives, projects, and programs, including impacts and dependencies.
- Ensure alignment and integration of architecture processes with other IT management processes such as Project Portfolio Management and IT Service Management.
- Perform Initiative Architecture Alignment Assessments as a governance gate at initiative kick-off and key delivery milestones, producing go/no-go/conditional recommendations to ensure projects and products align to the enterprise architecture vision, principles, and standards.
- Conduct periodic Architecture Compliance Reviews during initiative delivery to verify continued adherence to architecture standards; escalate deviations to the ARB for exception or waiver processing.
- Help define, govern, and maintain enterprise data architecture standards—including data modelling conventions, data integration patterns, and data governance principles—and assess initiative-level data designs against these standards.
- Propose a realistic roadmap with the architectural points that need to increase in maturity, with priority and maturity levels required for an enterprise such as ours.
Requirements:
- At least 10 years of experience in an Enterprise Architecture role.
- Proven experience facilitating ARB sessions and producing decision packs with traceability.
- Strong autonomy and initiative, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all organizational levels.
- Demonstrates results-oriented mindset.
- Solid understanding of IT processes and methodologies, with practical experience using industry standards such as ITIL, TOGAF, ArchiMate, Domain‐Driven Design, and others.
- Experience with cloud‐native architecture patterns and platform governance (guardrails, onboarding criteria, reference architecture adoption).
- Collaborative mindset, pragmatism, and ability to co-construct; ability to act as the link between Business, IT, Architecture teams, infrastructure team, etc.
- Ability to advocate and promote the adoption of reference architectures across teams.
- Familiarity with microservices and event‐driven architecture approaches.
- Knowledge of Gartner architecture frameworks (e.g., TIME for Application Portfolio Management).
- Experience working with modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, SAP LeanIX or equivalent alternatives.
- Team‐oriented mindset, strong collaboration skills, and excellent presentation abilities.
- Experience in merger or acquisition contexts and the associated transformation journeys is considered a plus.
- Hands‐on experience designing and delivering IT solutions in an agile environment is an asset.
- Knowledge and experience of/in the Energy and Utilities sector is a plus.
- Fluency in English is mandatory for documentation, supplier interactions, and meetings. Knowledge of French, Dutch, or German is a plus.
