Enterprise Architect

Context

The client is a major European electricity transmission system operator responsible for ensuring the reliability and sustainability of the power supply.

Within the Group IT organization, the Enterprise Architect will play a key role in defining and governing the enterprise architecture framework. The role supports the evolution of the IT landscape by ensuring alignment between business needs, digital platforms, and architectural standards while contributing to strategic decision-making and long-term IT roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Define and continuously improve the enterprise architecture governance framework, including principles, standards, policies, and reference architectures

• Facilitate Architecture Review Board (ARB) sessions and manage architectural decision workflows

• Translate platform guardrails into actionable guidance for delivery teams

• Support strategic studies and decision-making discussions with the Head of IT Architecture

• Coach and guide architecture roles across the organization

• Communicate application strategy and architecture processes to business and IT stakeholders

• Analyze business and IT gaps using surveys and landscape assessments

• Perform cross-domain trade-off analysis using industry methods such as ATAM and CBAM

• Provide recommendations to evolve the application portfolio in collaboration with application owners

• Maintain the enterprise architecture repository and Architecture Decision Records (ADR)

• Validate architectural recommendations with senior IT and business management

• Contribute to the development of an enterprise-wide IT roadmap

• Align architecture processes with IT governance frameworks such as Project Portfolio Management and IT Service Management

• Perform initiative architecture alignment assessments at project kick-off and key milestones

• Conduct periodic architecture compliance reviews during project delivery

• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture standards

• Assess initiative-level data architectures against defined standards

• Propose a maturity roadmap for enterprise architecture capabilities

Technical skills

Must have

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture

• Proven experience facilitating Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and producing traceable decision packs

• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITIL)

• Experience with cloud-native architecture patterns

• Experience with platform governance and architectural guardrails

• Strong stakeholder management across Business and IT leadership

• Experience with application portfolio management methodologies

• Familiarity with microservices and event-driven architecture

• Experience using architecture modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect or SAP LeanIX

• Fluency in English

Should have

• Knowledge of Gartner architecture frameworks such as TIME

• Experience with architecture trade-off analysis methods (ATAM, CBAM)

• Ability to promote and drive reference architecture adoption across teams

• Strong presentation and communication skills

• Experience aligning architecture with IT governance processes

Nice to have

• Experience in mergers and acquisitions transformation programs

• Hands-on experience delivering IT solutions in agile environments

• Knowledge of the Energy or Utilities sector

• Additional languages: French, Dutch, or German