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# Contract Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** AND Digital
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Information Engineering, Software Engineering, Togaf, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Microservices
- **Published:** June 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://nl.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6253dfe0f01cf21e

## About the Role

Do you have experience in TOGAF?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * Bachelor's degree or similar in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

 * 8+ years in software development, systems design, or enterprise architecture.
 * Strong experience with: AWS, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, data engineering, security architecture and EA frameworks/tools such as TOGAF.

Key Skills

 * Strategic thinking and architecture planning
 * Governance and standards enforcement
 * Stakeholder communication and executive reporting
 * Risk assessment, decision-making, and problem-solving
 * Leadership, mentoring, and collaboration
 * Strong backbone and conflict resolution

Key Stakeholders

 * Executive leadership
 * Product and engineering teams
 * Security, data, platform, quality and operations engineering teams
 * External vendors and cloud/service partners

## Description

The Enterprise Architect aligns engineering with the organization's enterprise architecture strategy. This role ensures processes are scalable, secure, reusable, and aligned with business goals. It combines strategic planning, technical leadership, and architecture governance to support fast and effective delivery.

Core Responsibilities

 * Define and maintain architecture blueprints, standards, and roadmaps.
 * Create reference engineering processes for applications, APIs, integrations, data, and cloud platforms.
 * Lead design authority reviews and guide technology decisions across engineering teams.
 * Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, compliance, performance, and reliability requirements.
 * Collaborate with product, engineering, security, data, quality and operations teams.
 * Mentor solution architects and engineers. Promote best practices across the organization.


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