Our client is looking for a Domain Architect.
Description
This role is specifically focused on the Asset business domain, which serves as the backbone of our infrastructure operations. As the Asset Domain IT Architect, your mission is to ensure the Asset domain’s IT landscape is coherent, secure, operable, and future‑proof, enabling safe and reliable grid operations while aligning with strategy and regulatory obligations. We aren’t just looking for a theorist; we need a pragmatic bridge builder. You will be the vital link between ambitious business initiatives and robust IT realizations, ensuring our physical assets are managed through world-class digital solutions. You will work at the intersection of strategy and execution, transforming high-level business capabilities into tangible, scalable technical blueprints.
Architectural Translation & Design
- Form a strategic “tandem” with Business Architecture to translate organizational capabilities into actionable IT roadmaps.
- Convert complex business processes into detailed IT Blueprints that guide development and implementation teams.
Standards & Governance
- Define and enforce domain-specific principles while ensuring alignment with Group and Local principles, standards and reference architectures.
- Present, justify, and defend architectural designs before the Architectural Review Board (ARB).
- Formalize logic through Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) to ensure long-term maintainability.
- Guard against architectural drift and unmanaged technical debt.
- Monitor SLA/OLA performance and report domain-level risks.
Portfolio Management
- Maintain a single source of truth for the Asset IT application and platform portfolio within the Enterprise Architecture Repository.
- Conduct regular portfolio assessments (e.g. Gartner TIME, 6R), factoring in operational criticality, in close collaboration with Business and IT stakeholders (IT Application Managers).
- Identify opportunities for application/platform reuse to reduce technical debt and operational costs.
- Work with solution architects within the Assets IT Domain to ensure solutions are viable across build, run, evolve, and retire phases and ensure alignment with domain strategy and quality standards.
Strategic Advisory
- Conduct trade-off analyses (e.g. cost, risk, complexity, time to value) to facilitate executive decision-making.
- Perform peer reviews of Solution Architecture deliverables for Asset Domain consistency.
- Develop and maintain domain roadmaps anticipating regulatory, technological, and energy‑system evolution.
- Advise senior stakeholders on long-term architectural implications of asset strategy decisions.
Data, Integration & Information Architecture
- Work with Data Architects and Solution Architects to govern asset and operational data models, integration patterns, and data ownership.
- Work with Enterprise Architects and Platform Architects to ensure interoperability between enterprise systems, control systems, and analytics platforms.
- Coordinate with Data Architecture to ensure semantic consistency and data quality.
Security, Resilience & Compliance
- Work with security and compliance teams to ensure that security, availability, and resilience requirements are embedded into Asset Domain architectures and ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, safety, and cyber obligations.
- Define architectural measures for business continuity and disaster recovery.
Requirements
You are a delivery-focused professional who thrives in a dynamic environment where technical rigor, operational reliability, and business agility intersect.
Core Competencies
- Exceptional communication skills enabling interaction with C‑suite stakeholders, operational leaders, Project and Product leadership (Project Leaders, IT Application Managers, Product Owners), and deep engineering teams, with the ability to articulate complex trade-offs clearly.
- Strategic mindset enabling the design of scalable, compliant, resilient, and operable architectures across their full lifecycle.
- Collaborative leadership style, working effectively with Business, Domain, Solution, Security, Platform, Enterprise, Information and Data architects.
- Comfortable operating within architectural governance, defending architectural positions, accepting accountability for domain‑level decisions, and ensuring adherence to standards.
Technical & Professional Experience
- Deep knowledge of TOGAF and ArchiMate, applied pragmatically in delivery contexts.
- Hands-on experience with Domain‑Driven Design (DDD), Event Storming, and Agile Architecture methodologies.
- Strong background in the Energy and Utilities sector, with specific exposure to Asset Management or Infrastructure environments.
- Familiarity with evaluation methods such as ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) and Gartner TIME.
Industry & Domain Expertise
- Strong background in the Energy & Utilities sector, with exposure to Asset Management, Infrastructure, and operational environments.
- Awareness of IT/OT integration, operational constraints, and safety‑critical systems typical of a TSO context.
- Understanding of architectural implications related to security, availability, regulatory compliance, and operational risk in critical‑infrastructure environments.
- Native-level proficiency in Dutch, French, or German, and professional proficiency in English; knowledge of additional languages is an asset.
