Job Title: Enterprise Architect
We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Enterprise Architect to drive IT landscape engineering, support IT management with road mapping, market insights, and strategic direction.
About the Role:
The successful candidate will be instrumental in shaping the future of IT, aligning IT strategy with business goals, and enhancing the effectiveness of technological solutions. They will strengthen our existing Enterprise Architect capability, increasing capacity and stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Formulate Strategy & Develop Architecture Directions:
* Support the formulation of technology strategy in response to spotted disruptive external or internal forces and its operationalization.
* Drive IT Landscape Engineering through proactive and deliberate management of the IT landscape beyond investment planning horizons.
* Analyze business strategy and business future-state capabilities to identify Strategic Themes to detect gaps and opportunities for improvement in the current IT Landscape in line with the IT Strategy to enable the business achieving targeted outcomes.
2. Guide Strategy Execution in Initiative Delivery:
* Consult and support in IT Demand Management.
* Align initiatives' scope with strategy, roadmap, other initiatives and the big picture (Scope Alignment).
* Identify the fit of the current-state Landscape to support required future-state capabilities and determine the capability gap (Landscape Fit/Gap).
* Define future-state target architecture options roughly assessed against the applicable value model (Target Architecture).
3. IT Landscape Analytics & IT Market Insights:
* Advance our data-driven IT Landscape Analytics approach by generating insights to empower EA processes and drive strategic decisions.
* Equip colleagues with IT Market Insights to establish and maintain an overview of IT markets relevant to them.
4. Evolve EA's Value Proposition:
* Contribute to position the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the formulation and execution of strategy.
* Review and refine EA's portfolio of services periodically to define an EA capability roadmap to drive improvement of existing and development of new EA services.
Requirements:
* University Degree in Business Information Systems, Informatics, or Business Administration.
* Working Experience in IT, favourably in EA or cross-functional role(s).
* Fluent in English, German is a plus.
* Experience in Enterprise Architecture or IT Architecture, working on Business, Application, or Information Architectures.
* Broad and strong understanding of business processes and their relationship to IT, with curiosity and willingness to constantly learn.
* Strong communication, collaboration, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
* Professional certifications in enterprise architecture, TOGAF are a plus.
Travel: 0-10%.