Solutions / Enterprise Architect

Taken en verantwoordelijkheden

The Solutions / Enterprise Architect is responsible for aligning business strategy with technology infrastructure, ensuring that IT systems, processes, and data support organizational goals. This role involves designing and maintaining the enterprise architecture framework, guiding digital transformation, and new asset onboarding.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise strategy

• Participate in strategic discussions on company level.
• Have a clear overview of business units, their functions and processes.
• Impact estimation of possible strategic decisions on the organisation, processes and technology

Architecture Strategy & Governance

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps.
• Ensure architectural alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Design and maintain the overall application landscape and the mapping of these applications with their business functionalities
• Ensure there is a design of an integration framework through which data flows between these applications

Solution Design & Integration

• Design scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders.
• Oversee integration of systems across business units and platforms.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.

Enterprise Integration & Interoperability

• Design data integration patterns (ETL/ELT, APIs, Service bus, streaming) for on-premises and cloud environments.
• Enable interoperability between transactional- and operational systems but also analytics systems (data warehouse, data lake,...)

Lifecycle Management

• Manage the lifecycle of applications, platforms, and infrastructure.
• Define modernization and cloud migration strategies.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Translate business needs into architectural requirements and technical solutions.
• Communicate architectural decisions and their impact clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Governance & Compliance

• Identify architectural risks and propose mitigation strategies.
• Ensure compliance with data protection, cybersecurity, and industry standards.

Jouw profiel

Education: Masters in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

Role experience

• Expert Enterprise Architect (mandatory) Most recent experience This year
• 10+ years in Enterprise & Solutions architecture roles.

Skills

• Archimate Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• Enterprise Architecture Expertise Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• hybrid cloud Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• Stakeholder Management Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• TOGAF Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• UML Level Expert Most recent experience This year

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Strategic thinking with hands-on problem-solving ability.
• Ability to integrate into an organisation and identify skills and characters in order to outline governance models.

Languages

• Dutch or French Level Native
• English Level Active knowledge

Aanbod

Je zal deel uitmaken van een groeiende KMO met ruimte voor initiatief en persoonlijke ontwikkeling. Wij zorgen ervoor dat je in een uitdagende maar aangename werkomgeving terecht komt met leuke collega's. Samen met jou stippelen we een carriereplan uit, met aandacht en budget voor bijkomende opleidingingen / certificaties. Je kan rekenen op een motiverend salaris, aangevuld met extralegale voordelen, inclusief bedrijfswagen (of alternatieve vergoeding). (Freelance is ook

Education: Masters in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

Role experience

• Expert Enterprise Architect (mandatory) Most recent experience This year
• 10+ years in Enterprise & Solutions architecture roles.

Skills

• Archimate Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• Enterprise Architecture Expertise Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• hybrid cloud Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• Stakeholder Management Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• TOGAF Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• UML Level Expert Most recent experience This year

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Strategic thinking with hands-on problem-solving ability.
• Ability to integrate into an organisation and identify skills and characters in order to outline governance models.

Languages

• Dutch or French Level Native
• English Level Active knowledge