Enterprise Architect

Heerema Marine Contractors; Leiden; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus plan

13th month salary

Holiday allowance

30 days off

In-house gym

Leiden office

Job summary

Heerema Marine Contractors is seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape and govern our digital and IT landscape from Leiden. You will ensure technology decisions support business strategy, operational excellence, and long‑term sustainability, working closely with senior stakeholders and delivery teams.

You will guide architecture principles, standards and reference patterns, drive portfolio planning, and collaborate across domains to ensure coherent, scalable solutions that align with business

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, Engineering, or Business (or equivalent).
• Approximately 10+ years of enterprise architecture, IT strategy, or complex solution experience.
• Experience across business, application, data and technology architecture domains.
• Experience with cloud ecosystems and modern application architectures.
• Experience with architecture modelling and repository tooling (LeanIX).

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve the enterprise IT landscape and align with business capabilities.
• Provide architectural guidance across initiatives to ensure scalability and long‑term sustainability.
• Drive early-stage architectural assessment and ensure scope, value, and alignment prior to portfolio approval.
• Assess architectural fit for new ideas and reuse opportunities; guide governance practices.
• Contribute to portfolio planning and technology roadmaps.
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to align strategy with technology choices.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Communication

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Portfolio planning

Technology roadmaps

Agile/Lean

Architecture governance

Cross-domain influence

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT/Engineering/Business

Tools

LeanIX

Job description

As Enterprise Architect, you shape the future of our digital landscape, ensuring technology choices support business strategy, operational excellence, and long‑term sustainability.

Your role in the story:

As an Enterprise Architect, you play a key role in shaping and guiding the evolution of our digital and IT landscape. You ensure that technology decisions support business strategy, operational excellence, and long‑term sustainability.

You operate at the intersection of business and IT, providing architectural guidance, establishing standards, and supporting strategic initiatives. Your role is advisory in nature, with a strong focus on influencing decision‑making, ensuring alignment, and guiding the organisation toward a coherent and sustainable enterprise architecture.

You work closely with senior stakeholders, portfolio and delivery teams, and domain specialists to align business priorities with architectural direction and long‑term technology choices.

What you will be working on:

• Maintaining and evolving a holistic view of the enterprise IT and application landscape and its alignment with business capabilities and processes
• Providing architectural guidance across initiatives, programmes and product developments to ensure consistency, scalability and long‑term sustainability
• Driving early‑stage architectural assessment of initiatives (Intake, Investigate, Definition), ensuring clarity of scope, value and alignment before portfolio approval and delivery
• Supporting early evaluation of new ideas, initiatives and software requests by assessing architectural fit, reuse opportunities and alignment with enterprise standards
• Contributing architectural insight to portfolio planning and investment discussions
• Developing and maintaining architectural principles, standards and reference patterns that support coherent decision‑making
• Supporting the establishment and evolution of architecture governance practices, including review and advisory mechanisms
• Facilitating collaboration between business and IT stakeholders to ensure alignment between strategy, capabilities and technology
• Driving transparency of the enterprise landscape using architecture repositories and modelling practices
• Supporting application lifecycle thinking, including rationalisation, modernisation and integration strategies

Your future colleagues:

Of course you are curious to meet us as well! In this role, you work closely with senior business stakeholders, IT & Digital leadership, portfolio and delivery teams, and domain specialists across the organisation. You operate in a collaborative environment where architectural insight, dialogue and shared ownership are key to making sustainable decisions.

Is this the job for you?

You are a strategic thinker with a pragmatic mindset. You know how to translate complexity into direction and help organisations make informed decisions without over‑engineering solutions.

You build trust quickly, communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, and are comfortable operating in environments where business priorities and technology evolution intersect.

You thrive in advisory roles where influence, alignment and clarity are more important than formal authority.

Key ingredients for success:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, Engineering, Business or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Approximately 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, business/IT strategy or complex solution environments
• Experience across multiple architecture domains (business, application, data and/or technology architecture)
• Experience working in organisations with evolving digital landscapes and multiple stakeholders
• Familiarity with cloud ecosystems, APIs, integration patterns, microservices and modern application architectures
• Experience contributing to portfolio planning, capability development and technology roadmaps
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean ways of working and enterprise delivery environments
• Experience with enterprise architecture modelling and repository tooling (e.g. LeanIX)
• Strong communication, facilitation and stakeholder‑management skills
• Ability to operate effectively at both strategic and practical levels

Your Foundation for Success

At our core, we champion an entrepreneurial spirit and a relentless pursuit of growth. We seek individuals who excel in personal development, seize opportunities where others see challenges, and turn them into success. Whether you're a creative problem‑solver, an ambitious go‑getter, or someone who thrives in collaboration, we cultivate a culture of passion, dedication, and continuous improvement. Personal leadership and initiative are non‑negotiable: you own your growth and the impact you make. If you tackle challenges with a creative yet practical mindset, drive goals with determination, and add value to diverse teams, you'll thrive with us. Together, we create impact and drive meaningful change—always focused on results.

Here’s why people love working with us:

• Strong compensation & benefits, including an annual bonus plan tied to company performance
• Bonus basis = your annual gross salary + 13th month + 8% holiday allowance
• Investing in your future: Our pension plan covers base salary, 13th month, and holiday allowance, and we fully fund the contribution up to the scheme’s annual maximum. No employee contribution required within that band.
• 30 days off to recharge, with the option to buy 10 extra days
• Free access to our in‑house gym, including fitness classes
• Activities to connect with colleagues (e.g. our Friday‑afternoon get‑together)
• A modern and easily accessible office in Leiden

Are you ready to make the impossible possible?