Enterprise architect

ITS Group S.A.; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ITS Group S.A. is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to lead a strategic transformation focusing on a centralized data layer and migration program.

You will map the current and target architectures, oversee data governance, and align business needs with IT capabilities across public-sector environments. Responsibilities include building a Business Architecture framework, cataloging Microsoft-based applications, analyzing AS-IS/TO-BE landscapes, and driving data exchanges with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Data & Services Architecture.
• Experience delivering architecture missions in complex organizations.
• Public-sector experience is highly valued.
• Knowledge of the asylum and migration domain is a strong asset.
• Dutch language knowledge is mandatory; French also mandatory (as per role).

Responsabilités

• Define and establish the organization's Business Architecture framework.
• Inventory applications built on Microsoft technologies and other connected systems.
• Analyze AS-IS and TO-BE application landscape.
• Map internal and external data flows across the organization.
• Identify relationships and integrations between applications, databases, and external stakeholders.
• Design centralized data architecture to support efficient data exchange.
• Optimize data integration and reporting via a Centralized Data Layer.
• Collaborate with internal leads and external architecture stakeholders.

Connaissances

Enterprise Architecture

Data & Services Architecture

Business Architecture

Application landscape analysis

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Public sector experience

Outils

Microsoft SharePoint

Active Directory

Power BI

Power Apps

Power Automate

Description du poste

Great assignments await you with our key account clients in rich and varied environments

Our client is looking for a senior Enterprise Architect to support a strategic transformation initiative linked to the creation of a new federal migration structure and the optimization of data exchange across multiple internal and external systems.

The architect will be responsible for establishing a comprehensive view of the current application landscape, data architecture, and business architecture, while defining a target operating model and target architecture. A key objective is the implementation of a Centralized Data Layer to streamline data exchanges, improve reporting capabilities, and facilitate integration with a broader migration-related digital transformation program.

The assignment requires strong expertise in Enterprise Architecture, Data & Services Architecture, Business Architecture, application portfolio analysis, data governance, and stakeholder management within complex public-sector environments.

Your missions:

• Define and establish the organization's Business Architecture framework.
• Create a complete inventory of applications built on Microsoft technologies and other connected systems.
• Analyze and document the current (AS-IS) and future (TO-BE) application landscape.
• Map all internal and external data flows across the organization.
• Identify relationships and integrations between business applications, databases, and external stakeholders.
• Design and recommend a centralized data architecture to support efficient data exchange.
• Optimize data integration and reporting capabilities through a Centralized Data Layer.
• Support alignment between business needs, application architecture, and data architecture.
• Contribute to architectural alignment with a broader migration and digital transformation program.
• Review existing architecture documentation and define an improvement roadmap.
• Identify architectural synergies, gaps, risks, and optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal technical leads, data teams, software architects, and external architecture stakeholders.

Your activities:

Business Architecture

• Establish business architecture practices and governance.
• Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical architecture teams.
• Ensure alignment between strategic objectives, business processes, applications, and data structures.
• Support tactical and strategic decision-making.
• Inventory all existing applications and platforms.
• Analyze the current application ecosystem (AS-IS).
• Define the future-state application architecture (TO-BE).
• Assess dependencies and interactions between systems.
• Evaluate modernization and consolidation opportunities.
• Map existing data flows, interfaces, and integrations.
• Document relationships between applications and data repositories.
• Analyze internal and external data exchanges.
• Design optimization scenarios through a Centralized Data Layer.
• Leverage and integrate existing components such as:
• Power BI
• Ensure consistency with software architecture and data analytics teams.

Documentation & Governance

• Assess the quality and completeness of existing architectural documentation.
• Define and execute an action plan to improve architectural documentation.
• Produce architecture deliverables, models, diagrams, and governance artifacts.

Transformation & Integration

• Analyze opportunities for interoperability and architectural convergence.
• Identify gaps and optimization opportunities across programs and initiatives.
• Support data harmonization and simplification of information flows.
• Contribute to the definition of a common target architecture across multiple organizations and programs.

You have the following skills:

• Design and implementation of target architecture frameworks.
• Business Architecture methodology.
• Application Landscape Management.
• Enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.
• Architecture governance and best practices.
• Data Flow Mapping and Analysis.
• Data Integration and Interoperability.
• Data Warehouse architecture.
• Service-oriented architecture concepts.
• Information management and governance.

Microsoft Ecosystem

Strong knowledge of:

• Microsoft SharePoint
• Active Directory (AD)
• Power BI
• Power Apps
• Power Automate

Analysis & Documentation

• Gap analysis.
• Documentation assessment and improvement.
• Dependency mapping and impact analysis.

Stakeholder Management

• Business and IT alignment.
• Cross-functional collaboration.
• Communication with architects, management, analysts, and technical teams.
• Strategic and tactical advisory capabilities.

Language Requirements

• Dutch: Active knowledge (mandatory)
• French: Active knowledge (mandatory)
• English: Nice to have

Required Experience

• Proven experience in Data & Services Architecture.
• Experience delivering architecture missions in complex organizations.
• Public-sector experience is highly valued.
• Knowledge of the asylum and migration domain is a strong asset.