Senior Enterprise Architect & Strategy Lead

Mondeadditif; Heverlee; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Materialise in Belgium seeks an Enterprise Architecture leader to shape and execute our architecture strategy across multiple business units. You will define the vision, establish guardrails, and ensure alignment of business and IT strategies while guiding domain architects.

You will lead agile architecture enablement, oversee major enterprise and cross‑BU systems, and translate strategic goals into actionable roadmaps, standards, and durable architectural practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of enterprise-level architecture leadership experience in complex, multi‑BU environments.
• Strong skills in business capability modeling, road mapping, and strategic portfolio alignment.
• Strong facilitation and communication abilities; able to influence senior stakeholders.
• Proven people and team leadership with non-hierarchical influence and direct leadership.
• Knowledge of agile frameworks (SAFe, LeSS) and their architectural roles.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and evolve the Enterprise Architecture vision, target state, and principles.
• Maintain enterprise-wide capability maps and translate them into architectural direction.
• Establish and enforce architectural guardrails to guide decision-making across teams.
• Ensure alignment between business strategy, IT strategy, and architecture evolution.
• Shape and support demand intake and portfolio prioritization from an architectural perspective.
• Define and maintain the architecture runway to enable business initiatives.
• Advise on trade-offs between business value, technical sustainability, and complexity.
• Guide and coach domain architects to ensure consistency across domains.
• Govern enterprise architecture standards and guardrails for interoperability, scalability, security.
• Oversee solution evaluation processes for major enterprise and cross‑BU systems.
• Embed agile activities to support delivery and architecture runway development.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder influence

Agile frameworks

Business capability modeling

Architecture roadmapping

Portfolio alignment

Domain coaching

Communication

Job description

Materialise in Belgium seeks an Enterprise Architecture leader to shape and execute our architecture strategy across multiple business units. You will define the vision, establish guardrails, and ensure alignment of business and IT strategies while guiding domain architects.

You will lead agile architecture enablement, oversee major enterprise and cross‑BU systems, and translate strategic goals into actionable roadmaps, standards, and durable architectural practices across the organization.