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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Enterprise Architect - **Company:** TVH Parts - **Location:** Waregem, Belgium (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Confluence, JIRA, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Togaf, SAB - **Published:** September 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=072addfd3750d161 ## About the Role * Master's degree in a relevant field (IT, engineering, business informatics) or equivalent through experience. * 10+ years of experience in enterprise-grade IT, including several years operating at the enterprise or cross-domain level. * Proven experience defining and governing enterprise architecture within a complex, multi-domain organization using frameworks like TOGAF. * Experience chairing or actively participating in senior architecture governance boards (e.g., EAB/SAB structures). * Strong analytical, decision-making, and stakeholder communication skills. * Demonstrated people management experience, with a track record of leading, coaching, and developing senior architectural talent. * Experience with enterprise architecture repository tooling, specifically LeanIX. * Experience with Confluence and Jira. * TOGAF certification and experience utilizing organizational maturity models. * Experience working in a manufacturing, distribution, or similarly complex global organization. * Fluent in English, knowledge of Dutch is a strong asset ## Description * Define, maintain, and communicate TVH's Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Enterprise Target Architecture across business, application, data, and technology layers. * Establish and evolve the Enterprise Architecture Principles and guardrails that all architecture decisions and solution designs across the enterprise must follow. * Ensure architecture decisions are aligned with TVH's enterprise capability model and strategic ambition. Portfolio Alignment, Roadmaps and Advisory * Own and manage the multi-year Enterprise Architecture Roadmap, linking architectural investments to business outcomes. * Weigh in on and assess strategic initiatives for architectural fit, value, risk, and portfolio alignment. * Act as a trusted advisor to IT and business stakeholders. Make cost, risk, complexity, and dependency impacts explicit for management. Strategic Steering and Board Participation * Chair the Enterprise Architecture Board (EAB) on a monthly, quarterly, and annual cadence to govern target architectures and resolve cross-domain conflicts. * Participate on the Solution Architecture Board (SAB) to review solution adherence to enterprise standards.Make strategic platform decisions and enterprise-level build vs. buy choices in collaboration with the Technology Architect, including evaluating new technology categories not in the TVH catalogue. * Spend approximately 90% of your time on strategic steering and continuous architecture, and 10% on project-specific design work Practice Leadership * Directly manage, coach, and develop the Domain Architects across key business areas. * Provide strategic direction and quality oversight to Solution, Technology, Security, Data, and Integration Architects. * Drive content accuracy for enterprise target architectures and capability models in LeanIX and Confluence. * Own and mature the Enterprise Architecture Governance Framework, tracking practice maturity over time. ## Related Videos - [GitOps for the people](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/461-gitops-for-the-people) - [We (don't) need a software architect!?!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/663-we-don-t-need-a-software-architect) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [Agile work at CARIAD – Creating a customer web application for controlling the vehicle ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/200-agile-work-at-cariad-creating-a-customer-web-application-for-controlling-the-vehicle) - [Collaboration Quantified: Lessons from Open Source Developer Networks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1422-collaboration-quantified-lessons-from-open-source-developer-networks) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers) - [How to land a developer job in Amsterdam](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/36-how-to-land-a-developer-job-in-amsterdam) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Best Companies in the Netherlands: Top 25 Companies in 2023 ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/193-best-companies-in-the-netherlands-top-25-companies-in-2023)