Lead Enterprise Architect – Strategy & Transformation (f/m/d)

Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH; Oberkochen; Vor Ort; EUR 110.000 - 165.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

ZEISS SMT GmbH seeks a Lead Enterprise Architect to align enterprise architecture holistically with long-term business objectives and to shape the technology vision for the organization. You will drive digital transformation across supply chain, manufacturing, product development, and quality management with a strategic partnership to top management.

You will define the EAM framework, establish governance across IT domains, and lead major transformation programs while communicating complex

Qualifikationen

• Degree in business informatics, engineering, or business administration.
• Proven ability to align IT strategy with business goals.
• Experience leading cross-functional architecture initiatives.

Aufgaben

• Define the vision and strategy for Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) at ZEISS SMT.
• Develop a long-term technology roadmap aligned to business goals.
• Establish architecture governance, principles and standards across IT.
• Provide leadership to the EAM team and foster innovation.
• Advise the executive board on architecture-related strategic decisions.

Kenntnisse

Strategic leadership

Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder management

German & English communication

Ausbildung

Degree in business informatics / engineering / business administration

Jobbeschreibung

ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Enabler for smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips

Working for tomorrow today. Around 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are produced using ZEISS technologies. As the centerpiece of every electronically controlled system, they have become an integral part of our everyday lives – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and process control solutions, ZEISS enables the production of ever smaller, increasingly powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips, and thus plays a pivotal role in the age of micro- and nanoelectronics.

Your role

As Lead Enterprise Architect, you are the strategic mind and driving force behind our digital transformation. You are not only responsible for aligning our enterprise architecture holistically with long-term business objectives, but also for proactively shaping the technological vision. Your mission is to create a future-proof digital ecosystem that enables innovation, scalability, and resilience in our core business processes such as supply chain, manufacturing, product development, and quality management. In this key role, you act as a strategic partner to top management and ensure that every technological decision advances the long-term business goals.

• Define the vision and strategy for Enterprise Architecture Management for the ZEISS SMT segment and ensure its anchoring in the organization across our architecture domains: Business, IT, Data, and Cyber Security.
• Develop a long-term technology roadmap derived directly from the business goals, securing and strengthening the company’s competitiveness in a sustainable way.
• Establish effective architecture governance, principles, and standards across the organization to enforce strategic objectives in all IT initiatives, actively reduce complexity, and maximize synergies.
• Provide functional leadership to and further develop the Enterprise Architecture team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Advise the executive board and top management on all architecture-related strategic issues and act as a decisive authority for fundamental technological decisions.
• Shape major transformation programs from an architecture perspective and ensure that they are implemented in line with the defined target architecture.

Your profile

• Successfully completed degree in business informatics, engineering, business administration, or a comparable qualification
• At least 10 years of strategic professional experience at the interface between business and IT, including several years in a relevant leadership or architect role with overall responsibility
• Proven track record in building and leading an Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) function as well as in implementing business-driven IT strategies in companies with complex industrial manufacturing
• Excellent understanding of value chains and business processes, particularly in the areas of supply chain, manufacturing, product development, or quality management
• Experience in steering large transformation programs through the application of architecture governance and strategic portfolio management
• Strong assertiveness, strategic mindset, excellent communication skills in German and English, and the ability to convey complex visions convincingly and inspire people for change

Recruiting Team - Adrian Kahl

Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That’s just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people. In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together. Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.