Enterprise Architect

NTek Software Solutions; Brussel; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NTek Software Solutions in Belgium seeks an Enterprise Architect to implement federated architecture across group and local entities. You convert approved models into working agreements and collaborate with enterprise, domain, technical and solution architects, plus security, data and project teams.

You will coach architects, establish ARB sessions, monitor KPIs, and ensure governance, ADRs and waivers, while remaining hands-on but not making decisions for managers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as an Enterprise Architect.
• Immediately available.
• Experience with architecture governance in complex multi-entity environments.
• Experience supervising ARB sessions and preparing decision files.
• Hands-on experience with ADRs, waivers, compliance reviews and delegated decision rights.
• Strategic yet pragmatic and results-oriented.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management at senior levels.
• Agile delivery experience; energy sector knowledge is a plus.
• Fluent English is compulsory; additional languages are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute an implementation plan (backlog, milestones, risks, pilots).
• Develop the architecture governance framework: principles, standards, reference architectures and ARB flows.
• Define mandates and escalation paths for architecture roles.
• Establish or improve ARBs at group and local level; supervise first sessions.
• Implement architecture decision records, waivers, exceptions and fast-track procedures.
• Involve architecture early in portfolio, demand intake, delivery, security and data.
• Coach architects and transfer knowledge within Architecture Community.
• Determine and monitor KPIs.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Architecture governance

ARB facilitation

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Energy sector knowledge

Fluent English

Job description

Within the new Group IT organisation, Client is rolling out a federated architecture operating model: a single common architecture direction at group level, with local implementation at 50Hertz and client Transmission Belgium. The consultant converts this approved model into concrete working agreements and works together with the enterprise, domain, technical and solution architects and with the portfolio, security, data and project teams. He or she advises and supervises the implementation, but does not make decisions in the place of the internal managers.

The consultant is responsible for:

• Create and execute an implementation plan (backlog, milestones, risks, pilots)
• Develop the architecture governance framework: principles, standards, reference architectures and a clear decision flow via the Architecture Review Board
• Define mandates, decision-making rights and escalation paths of the different architecture roles
• Establish or improve ARBs at group and local level and supervise the first sessions
• Implement architecture decision records, waivers, exceptions and a fast-track procedure
• Involve architecture early on in portfolio, demand intake, delivery, security, data and supplier selection, without additional layers of approval
• Coaching architects, setting up an Architecture Community and transferring knowledge
• Determine and monitor KPIs

Required experience and skills

• At least 10 years of experience as an Enterprise Architect
• Immediately available
• Experience with architecture governance in complex multi-entity environments
• Experience in supervising ARB sessions and preparing decision files
• Hands-on experience with ADRs, waivers, compliance reviews and delegated decision rights
• Strategic and at the same time pragmatic and result-oriented
• Strong in facilitation and stakeholder management, up to senior management level
• Agile delivery experience and knowledge of the energy sector is a plus
• Fluent English (compulsory), French, Dutch or German is a plus