Lead Enterprise Architect

How you will tackle this challenge:
As an Enterprise Architect at Enexis, you will gain an overarching perspective of our organization from a business capabilities standpoint, enabled by our Enterprise Architecture. You will guide our organization with reference architecture and architectural guidelines, ensuring we stay on course with our strategic goals.

Working within the energy sector's business capabilities framework, which forms the foundation of our Business Architecture, you will organize Enterprise Architecture to effectively support our business processes. Your role will involve developing and implementing our target architecture by envisioning, communicating, and evolving our reference architecture. Acting at a strategic level, you will focus on long-term enterprise-wide alignment.

Furthermore, you will align the IT architecture with the business strategy, defining applications based on business needs and the external environment. You'll establish architecture principles and provide strategic technical directions, guiding teams towards the target architecture in close collaboration with system architects and solution managers. Ensuring an enterprise-wide target architecture is in place to support strategic business cases, aligned with prioritized themes, will be one of your key responsibilities. Additionally, you will synchronize architecture across teams, maintaining consistency and coherence throughout the organization.

Your Role Includes:

• Develop and Implement Target Architecture: You willenvision, communicate, and evolve our reference architecture. You Operate at a strategic level and focus on long-term enterprise-wide alignment.
• Align IT with Business Strategy: You define applications based on business needs and the external environment.
• Establish Architecture Principles: You set foundational guidelines for architectural decisions.
• Strategic Technical Directions: Youprovide guidance to teams towards the target architecture and collaborate closely with system architects and solution managers. In this role you ensure an enterprise-wide target architecture is in place to support strategic business cases, aligned with prioritized themes.
• Synchronize Architecture: you are responsible forharmonizing architecture across various business units (BVKs).

Next to the joint Enterprise Architecture responsibilities, as Lead Architect, you will play a role to make the next steps in our Architecture maturity, by:

• Leading functionally and mentoring the (Enterprise and System) Architecture team, fostering professional development and improving architecture practices
• Positioning Enterprise Architecture in strategic setting stronger (which has a direct link with our portfolio management)