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Our approach is based on conscious technology, through which we create positive environments and meaningful opportunities, always in our own way, making the complex simple.
VASS BeNeLux, in partnership with the European Commission, is currently seeking an Expert Enterprise Architect to work from the European Commission.
The role:
The following tasks will be performed by external service provider:
* Create business architecture models that reflect the organization's strategies and goals
* Integrate the project and program strategies and ensure alignment with business strategies and drivers,
and management priorities
* Identify ways to reduce costs in IT and business leadership
* Evaluate systems for discrepancies or vulnerabilities
* Conduct research to find ways to improve operations
* Provide business architecture and systems processing guidance
* Create and implement a business vision and multi-year plan
* Manage the implementation of information systems to meet identified business needs, acquiring and
using the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality.
• Give proposals for project strategies, planning, definition of tasks and deliverables, review of project
deliverables, quality control, risk analysis and management, status reports, problem reporting and
management systems, follow up and organization.
* Guide the team in charge of project activities and review their deliverables.
* Participate to reviews, and other Scrum-related meetings and ceremonies.
* Participate in functional working groups and progress meetings.
* Estimate costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful completion of each project to
agreed terms of reference.
• Prepare and maintain project and quality plans and tracks activities against the plan, provide regular
and accurate reports.
• Monitor costs, timescales and resources used. Take actions in case of deviations from agreed
tolerances.
* Ensure that delivered systems are implemented within these criteria.
* Manage the change control procedure gaining agreement for revisions to the project from project
sponsors. Provide effective leadership for the project team ensuring that team members are motivated
and constantly developing their skills and experience.
* Perform risk management and act proactively against project threats.
* Manage Issues, Changes and Decisions and document them thoroughly in the project logs.
* Produce Business cases, Vision documents, Project Charters.
* Interaction with the Product Owner, business analysts, customers, users, team coordinator and
developers.
• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an
in-depth understanding of a specific business domain.
* Working with EU legislation and extracting requirements from legal documents.
* Support in transitioning from Project to Operations.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Following skills and knowledge are required for the performance of the above listed tasks:
* Experience defining and implementing strategies under a CIO or equivalent
* Ability to combine many different skills and experiences to address and solve business, information,
and technology related opportunities and problems.
* Extensive experience with enterprise architecture best practices and goals.
* Excellent leadership and conciliation skills
* Strong communications skills, both verbal (e.g.: presentations, seminars, etc.), and written (e.g.:
reports, articles, etc.).
* Group session facilitation.
* Promotion skills ("selling" the results of architectural approaches through presentations).
* Analysis and design.
* Modelling and graphical representations and abstractions.
* Ability to perform Product Decompositions. Strong capacity in preparing and writing business analysis.
* Ability to organise meetings and workshops with many participants and collect feedback.
* Excellent critical thinker, by using logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of
alternative solutions.
* Capability to speak to business and technical audiences. Excellent knowledge broker.
* Strong capacity to write clear and structured technical documents.
* Ability to produce high level estimations of the work to be achieved.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to present ideas and opinions with strong
confidence.
* Ability to work with a degree of autonomy and be an excellent team player.
* Strong organisational skills, readiness to adapt quickly to a new working environment.
* Strong capacity to make business-priority decisions in projects in view of feedback collected from the
Business unit and other stakeholders.
* Strong capacity to build an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.
* Rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in a team, understanding the needs, objectives
and constraints of those in other disciplines and functions.
• Capable of showing initiative by reaching beyond work assigned to improve output and/or help other
colleagues.
SPECIFIC EXPERTISE, TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS1
• Following specific expertise is mandatory for the performance of tasks:
o At least 5 years of specific expertise developing and building models using TOGAF
(Minimum competence level 3)
o At least 5 years of experience in BPMN or ArchiMate. (Minimum competence level 3)
o At least 5 years of experience in ARIS. (Minimum competence level 3)
o At least 12 years of recent experience performing project management (Project Scheduling,
Performance Tracking, Budgeting). (Minimum competence level 4) (Only valid for
experience happening from 2012 on) (Project Team must have had at least 5 members)
o At least 6 years of recent experience in Agile acting as a Scrum Master or as Agile Project
Manager. (Minimum competence level 4) (Only valid for experience happening from 2012
on) (Project Team must have had at least 5 members)
o At least 5 years of specific expertise in Earned Value Management (Minimum competence
level 4) (Only valid for experience happening from 2012 on)
o At least 3 years of recent specific expertise in Project Management Tools (e.g. MS Project,
SERVICENOW or equivalent) (Minimum competence level 3) (Only valid for experience
happening from 2016 on)
o At least 5 years of experience in Functional Decomposition or Product Decomposition.
(Minimum competence level 4) (Only valid for experience happening from 2016 on)
o At least 6 years of recent experience in Agile toolbox (e.g. JIRA, Trello, BigPicture, Azure
DevOps, etc). (Minimum competence level 4) (Only valid for experience happening from
2016 on)
o At least 5 years of recent specific expertise in software development projects (Minimum
competence level 3) (Only valid for experience happening from 2016 on)
o At least 5 years of specific expertise in producing Business Cases, Project Initiation
Documentation or Project Charters describing the project justification, budgetary
CERTIFICATIONS & STANDARDS2
Having at least one of the following certifications is mandatory for the performance of tasks:
• PM2-Agile certification (the consultant will be required to get this certification at the latest during the
first contract; the time spent in the training or exam cannot be invoiced as working time)
* Project Management Professional (PMP)
* PRINCE2 Foundation / Practitioner
* PM2 certified – Level 1
* Professional Scrum Master (PSM I or PSM I and II)
* Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
constraints, scope and etc. (Minimum competence level 4)
• Experience in business-to-government definitions and related IT systems is an asset.
• Experience with DevOps practices is an asset.
You have:
To have a master's degree.
If you want to join a dynamic company where technological challenges will be found in your day to day we are waiting for you in the great VASS team.
And we encourage you to be the best version of yourself: Transformative, Creative, Honest, Vibrant!
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