IT Enterprise Architect

Function description

In our new agile landscape, we are looking for an enterprise architect who can support our digital transformation. The candidate we are looking for has a passion for architecture. On a daily basis you will join our agile teams to support them delivering solutions in support of our stakeholders.

The ideal architect can work with the legacy that we already have and bring innovative ideas to transform and improve our systems.

Willingness to work with a big organization and handle the challenges that come with the multiple structures are key for the ideal candidate.

Define the architecture vision:

• Contribute to define and maintain IS strategic plan
• Define and maintain (at given level) architecture strategy and roadmap and its alignment with business priorities and needs.
• Identify potential business value that could be supported by IT endeavours
• Monitor the emerging technologies and conduct technology watch studies

Design reference architectures:

• Build and maintain architecture framework(guidelines,standards, and principles) in compliance with Group architecture framework
• Promote the architecture framework driven by architecture value proposition
• Provide and maintain architecture references
• Contribute to the evolution of Group architecture framework in collaboration with the other architects and stakeholders

Govern and control architecture:

• Challenge project initiatives and evaluate compliance with architecture strategy
• Contribute to organization of architecture committees
• Contribute to project assessment in a collaborative way, validation, and selection
• Contribute to the architecture validation according to business requirements/needs, IT standards and architecture framework

Design solution:

• Contribute to impact analysis and studies about business needs and architecture enhancements/evolutions
• Challenge projects teams and experts about architecture layers of solutions
• Develop recommendations to cope with requirements (availability,performance,etc)

Miscellaneous:

• Facilitate transfer of knowledge,experience, and best practices within architecture teams
• Promote,communicate and share architecture guidelines standards, and principles within expert communities
• Contribute to strategic studies and IS level topics
• Share IS knowledge and maintain information in the associated tools.

The positions are open to medium and senior profiles.

Language requirements

English

Fluent writing and speaking

Education

University Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent education and experience

Certification

• TOGAF

Travel

• Must be willing to travel on occasion

Telework

• 60% working from home

Required experience / knowledge

At least 5 years of relevant experience

Technical experience

mandatory

• Minimum 5 years of multi-disciplined IT experience (dev, analysis, ...)
  • 4-5 years Architecture responsibilities in large sophisticated organization with high volume/high transaction environment.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms
• Able to design architectures and frameworks.
• Be able to document and address organization's data structure, solution architecture, and systems requirements throughout the full life cycle.
• Archimate designs
• Experience with mobile apps and websites.
• Broad proven business knowledge
• Previous experience with organizations that use mainframes (no in depth mainframe knowledge required, but awareness of the ins and outs)

preferable

• Experience with advanced technologies such as machine learning, data mining, text mining, deep- learning, natural language processing.

Business experience

mandatory

• GDPR

preferable

• Private loan/leasing business experience
• Card payments
• CRM
• Accounting
• Camunda

Soft skills

• Ability to be a liaison between business, management, IT and other stakeholders
• Be able to identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
• Be an excellent communicator and have excellent listening skills.
• Ability to manage teleworking and you are able to make contact with different stakeholders once they have been identified.
• Team player
• Quick self-starter, pro-active attitude
• Good Communication and influencing skills
• Good analytical and synthesis skills