Principal Enterprise Architect Professional Services (Germany)

• Assess and advance the architectural intent crafted during pre-sales.
• Provide architectural leadership across the full transformation lifecycle and guide platform adoption and evolution.
• Convert the success roadmap created during pre-sales into a comprehensive, managed transition plan featuring clear sequencing, decision points, and risk controls.
• Formulate robust, industry-specific architectural perspectives and translate them into target-state architecture, reference models, and phased implementation plans.
• Foster and maintain executive trust in architectural direction, serving as a strategic advisor to senior business and technology collaborators.
• Collaborate with licensing and services sales teams to improve major sales initiatives.
• Coordinate architectural efforts among delivery teams, subject matter experts, and partners to ensure build integrity and alignment during execution.
• Establish and lead architecture governance and assurance forums.
• Partner closely with pre-sales teams to ensure lessons learned, build patterns, and reference architectures continually improve future pursuits and delivery outcomes.

• Proven experience providing enterprise architecture leadership across large-scale transformation programmes, from early visioning and pre-sales through delivery, adoption, and platform evolution.
• Strong grounding in TOGAF principles and lifecycle-based architecture governance, applied pragmatically in complex enterprise environments.
• Broad understanding of digital marketing, data, and activation ecosystems.
• The ability to craft compelling narratives that translate architectural choices into business-relevant results and messages suitable for executives.
• Experience operating as a trusted architectural advisor to senior executives.
• Strong understanding of AI, automation, and emerging agentic models, and their implications for enterprise platforms.
• Experience working closely with delivery teams, partners, and vendors to maintain build integrity.
• Ability to apply structured change and adoption approaches (including ADKAR) to support the human and organisational aspects of architectural evolution.
• A collaborative, outcome-focused leadership style, with a relentless focus on value and adoption.
• Fluency in English and German is required. Any other european language would be a plus.

Die AOK Systems ist einer der führenden IT-Partner für die Sozialversicherung in Deutschland. Wir entwickeln, implementieren und pflegen die SAP-basierte, standardisierte und vollintegrierte GKV-Branchenlösung oscare® - 
unser IT-Herzstück für die GKV.  

Als Spezialisten für integrierte IT-Komplettdienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt bei den gesetzlichen Kranken- und Pflegeversicherungen sind wir Orchestrator für starke Lösungen von Kundengemeinschaften und Möglichmacher von individuellen Digitalisierungsstrategien – für eine starke GKV, die Menschen und ihre Gesundheit in den Mittelpunkt stellt.