A leading organization in the energy sector is looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to guide the digital transformation and further professionalization of Enterprise Architecture. The energy transition brings major challenges, such as grid congestion, electrification, decentralization, cybersecurity, and scarcity of people and resources. This requires fundamental changes in business operations, digitalization, and technology.
To address these challenges, strategy, organization, processes, data, applications, and technology must be optimally aligned. This demands a clear architectural vision, coherent target architectures, realistic roadmaps, and a mature Enterprise Architecture capability. The role involves a strategic and guiding function. You develop the architectural vision, strengthen architectural governance, and ensure that Enterprise Architecture genuinely contributes to strategic decision-making and organization-wide change.
You operate at the intersection of strategy, business, IT, and Enterprise Portfolio Management, and are a key discussion partner for the board of directors, executive management, and senior management within the organization.
What you do
You are responsible for the strategic development, management, and safeguarding of Enterprise Architecture within a complex organization. Your activities include:
- Developing and promoting an organization-wide vision on Enterprise Architecture.
- Functionally leading the Enterprise Architecture team and the further development of the Enterprise Architecture capability.
- Managing the maturity development of Enterprise Architecture as a strategic business function.
- Monitoring coherence, synergy, and consistency between architectures within different business domains and value chains.
- Coordinating the development and maintenance of architecture products, including architectural visions, capability maps, target architectures, program architectures, and roadmaps.
- Developing and safeguarding architectural principles, governance, processes, and working methods.
- Chairing architectural committees and facilitating consistent architectural decision-making.
- Connecting Enterprise Architecture with organizational strategy, Enterprise Portfolio Management, value chains, programs, and projects.
- Actively contributing to portfolio management, strategic prioritization, and organization-wide decision-making.
- Translating internal and external developments into future-proof architectural choices and long-term roadmaps.
- Ensuring an integrated enterprise target architecture where business goals, processes, information, applications, and technology converge.
- Monitoring the application of architectural frameworks within business and IT value chains.
- Advising on lifecycle management, technical debt, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and process quality.
- Advising the Board of Directors, executive management, and senior management on strategic digitalization and architectural issues.
- Translating architectural frameworks into feasible, scalable, and future-proof solutions.
- Coaching and developing architects and other professionals within the architecture domain.
- Stimulating collaboration between Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, system architecture, process management, and change programs.
- Ensuring that architecture is not only developed but also actually applied and sustainably embedded in the organization.
Profile
- University (WO) working and thinking level, for example in the direction of information management, administrative information provision, business administration, or a comparable study.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience within architecture in complex organizations.
- Demonstrable experience with Enterprise Architecture, capability thinking, and architectural leadership.
- Experience within SAFe organizations and complex organizations with multiple business and IT lines.
- Experience with Domain-Driven Design, sociotechnical architecture, and emerging architecture.
- Demonstrable experience in translating architectural frameworks into feasible and scalable solutions.
- Extensive experience with stakeholder management at senior management, executive, and board levels.
- Experience with developing and professionalizing Enterprise Architecture as an organization-wide capability.
- Experience with architectural governance, target architectures, capability maps, and strategic roadmaps.
- Knowledge of the coherence between organizational strategy, Enterprise Portfolio Management, and architecture.
- Experience with functionally managing, coaching, and developing professionals.
- Able to translate complex strategic issues into concrete architectural choices and executable change initiatives.
- Experience with organization-wide digitalization and complex transformation programs.
Competencies.
- Strategic and conceptual thinking.
- Natural leadership.
- Strong persuasive power.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Organizational sensitivity.
- Strong stakeholder management.
- Analytical and problem-solving ability.
- Vision combined with execution power.
- Decisive and results-oriented.
- Connecting and collaboration-oriented.
- Able to create support at various organizational levels.
- Strong in governance and organizational development.
- Coaching and guiding.
- Pragmatic and future-oriented.
- Able to reduce complex issues to clear choices and priorities.
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