Enterprise Architect

Yechte Consulting Ltd; Brussel; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 135 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Yechte Consulting Ltd. seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead governance framework development, ADR repository maintenance and architecture alignment across IT programs in Belgium.

You will drive ARB decisions, manage reference architectures, and ensure integration with IT service and project management processes. The role requires deep expertise in TOGAF/ArchiMate, cloud-native patterns, and strong communication with Business and IT stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in an Enterprise Architecture role.
• Facilitates ARB sessions and creates decision packs with traceability.
• Strong autonomy and stakeholder engagement across levels.

Responsabilités

• Define and continuously improve governance framework including ARB workflow and ADR tracking.
• Translate EDP guardrails into actionable guidance for local delivery.
• Support strategic studies and decision discussions with Head of IT Architecture.

Connaissances

Enterprise Architecture

ARB facilitation

Stakeholder management

ITIL/TOGAF/ArchiMate

Cloud-native architecture

Event-driven/microservices

Gartner TIME

EA tools

Reference architectures

Collaboration

Stakeholder liaison

English fluency

Outils

Sparx Enterprise Architect

SAP LeanIX

Description du poste

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the definition and continuous improvement of the governance framework, including principles, standards, policies, reference architectures, and golden scenarios, within a clear ARB decision workflow (decision packs, traceability and escalation path).
• Contribute to the implementation of a federated target operating model and ensure alignment with the company Digital Platform (EDP) by translating EDP guardrails into consumable guidance for local delivery.
• Support the Head of IT Architecture in strategic studies, evaluations, and decision‑making discussions.
• Coach and provide guidance to other architecture roles across the organisation.
• Communicate the application strategy and related processes to business and IT stakeholders within the company.
• Collect and analyse business gaps—using business and IT surveys—to assess and evaluate the IT landscape, in close collaboration with business architecture.
• Conduct cross‑domain trade‑off analyses using industry‑recognised methods (e.g., ATAM) and cost‑benefit analyses (e.g., CBAM) to deliver well‑founded architectural recommendations.
• Give directions to maintain and evolve the application portfolio in collaboration with application owners and key stakeholders.
• Gather application‑related information (e.g., cost data) as input for analysis leveraging standard methods such as CBAM.
• Maintain the enterprise architecture repository—including the architecture decision record (ADR) repository with clear compliance levels (mandatory versus recommendation)—as a single source of truth for all architecture artefacts, models, and decisions, to prevent decision drift.
• Validate architectural recommendations with senior business and IT management.
• Manage the Architecture Vision Document and contribute to the development of an enterprise‑wide IT roadmap encompassing current and future initiatives, projects, and programs, including impacts and dependencies.
• Ensure alignment and integration of architecture processes with other IT management processes such as Project Portfolio Management and IT Service Management.
• Perform Initiative Architecture Alignment Assessments as a governance gate at initiative kick‑off and key delivery milestones, producing go/no‑go/conditional recommendations to ensure projects and products align to the enterprise architecture vision, principles, and standards.
• Conduct periodic Architecture Compliance Reviews during initiative delivery to verify continued adherence to architecture standards; escape deviations to the ARB for exception or waiver processing.
• Help define, govern, and maintain enterprise data architecture standards—including data modelling conventions, data integration patterns, and data governance principles—and assess initiative‑level data designs against these standards.
• Propose a realistic roadmap with the architectural points that need to increase in maturity.

Must Have Skills

• At least 10 years of experience in an Enterprise Architecture role.
• Proven experience facilitating ARB sessions and producing decision packs with traceability.
• Strong autonomy and initiative, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all organisational levels.
• Solid understanding of IT processes and methodologies, with practical experience using industry standards such as ITIL, TOGAF, ArchiMate, Domain‑Driven Design, and others.
• Experience with cloud‑native architecture patterns and platform governance (guardrails, onboarding criteria, reference architecture adoption).
• Familiarity with microservices and event‑driven architecture approaches.
• Knowledge of Gartner architecture frameworks (e.g., TIME for Application Portfolio Management).
• Experience working with modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, SAP LeanIX or equivalent alternatives.
• Ability to advocate and promote the adoption of reference architectures across teams.
• Collaborative mindset, pragmatism, and ability to co‑construct.
• Ability to act as a link between different stakeholders: Business, IT, Architecture, and Infrastructure teams.
• Fluency in English is mandatory for documentation, supplier interactions, and meetings.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of French, Dutch, or German is a plus (for collaborating with team members).
• Experience in merger or acquisition contexts and the associated transformation journeys is considered a plus.
• Hands‑on experience designing and delivering IT solutions in an agile environment is an asset.
• Knowledge and experience of/in the Energy and Utilities sector is a plus.
• Demonstrates results‑oriented mindset.
• Team‑oriented mindset, strong collaboration skills, and excellent presentation abilities.

What's great in the job?

Great team of smart people, in a friendly and open culture Expand your knowledge of various business industries Create content that will help our users on a daily basis Real responsibilities and challenges in a fast evolving company