Job Description

Enterprise Architect

• We are looking for a talented enterprise architect who will be a crucial part of our client’s IT team.
• The Enterprise Architect is responsible for identifying opportunities to leverage technology to create business value, in alignment with business priorities and global IT agenda.
• The Enterprise Architect defines and implement the regional IT landscape and architectural roadmap necessary to realize these opportunities.
• They also collaborate with the global Enterprise Architecture team to drive forward the global target architecture and influence major technology decisions.

• Perm role
• End client environment (Manufacturing industry)

• Analyze and document the existing IT landscape
• Propose and approve technology solutions for meeting business and IT demands according to the target architecture, architecture guidelines, and Enterprise Architecture best practices
• Definition and continuous development of the target architecture, system landscape and roadmap, ensuring alignment with evolving Business strategy and industry trends
• Design and maintain target business- and technology architectures, capability models, and architecture service catalogs.
• Assure optimal connection of the IT landscape with the business needs by aligning with key business and IT organization stakeholders.
• Create and maintain architecture principles and guidelines and validate adherence within projects and initiatives
• Provide architecture guidance to strategic IT projects and the transformation of the IT landscape
• Pragmatic implementation of the strategic direction of the IT landscape
• Proactively research and introduce technology best-practices.
• Review prototypes, solution blueprints, and project scope to ensure that the needs of the business are being met.
• Align the architectures across initiatives, conform their adherence to global IT design principles and recommend steps to assure business integrity and alignment.
• Identify and resolve cross-capability, cross-release issues, and risks that affect the business architecture integrity
• Oversee technology life cycles, advise on timely decommissioning / phasing out applications
• Support software selections and pre- study projects

• Several years of experience in working in the role as solution architect and/or enterprise architect (orientation towards TOGAF)
• Profound knowledge with strategic and operational enterprise architectures (business, data, application and infrastructure architectures) and related frameworks, methods and tools
• Broad experience in other IT disciplines (e.g., software development, business demand management, IT governance, project portfolio and solution architecture)
• Background and experience in medical technology, high-tech manufacturing, research and development will be an added advantage
• Experience in working within complex IT projects
• Distinct analytical and strategic skills
• Master(preferred) or Bachelor (required) in Information Technology, Computer Science or comparable disciplines
• TOGAF certification