Afarax is looking for a freelance Enterprise Architect. Our client in the utilities sector is looking for a Enterprise Architect to join their team.
Lead the definition and continuous improvement of the governance framework, including principles, standards, policies, reference architectures, and golden scenarios, within a clear ARB decision workflow (decision packs, traceability and escalation path).
Support the Head of IT Architecture in strategic studies, evaluations, and decision-making discussions.
Communicate the application strategy and related processes to business and IT stakeholders within the group.
Collect and analyze business gaps—using business and IT surveys—to assess and evaluate the IT landscape, in close collaboration with business architecture.
Give directions to maintain and evolve the application portfolio in collaboration with application owners and key stakeholders.
Gather application-related information (e.g., cost data) as input for analysis leveraging standard methods such as CBAM.
Maintain the enterprise architecture repository—including the architecture decision record (ADR) repository with clear compliance levels (mandatory versus recommendation)—as a single source of truth for all architecture artefacts, models, and decisions, to prevent decision drift.
Validate architectural recommendations with senior business and IT management.
Manage the Architecture Vision Document and contribute to the development of an enterprise‑wide IT roadmap encompassing current and future initiatives, projects, and programs, including impacts and dependencies.
Ensure alignment and integration of architecture processes with other IT management processes such as Project Portfolio Management and IT Service Management.
Help define, govern, and maintain enterprise data architecture standards—including data modelling conventions, data integration patterns, and data governance principles—and assess initiative-level data designs against these standards
Proven experience facilitating ARB sessions and producing decision packs with traceability.
Solid understanding of IT processes and methodologies, with practical experience using industry standards such as ITIL, TOGAF, ArchiMate, Domain‑Driven Design, and others.
Experience with cloud‑native architecture patterns and platform governance (guardrails, onboarding criteria, reference architecture adoption).
Business, IT, Architecture teams, infrastructure team, ....
Ability to advocate and promote the adoption of reference architectures across teams.
TIME for Application Portfolio Management).
Experience working with modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, SAP LeanIX or equivalent alternatives.
Team‑oriented mindset, strong collaboration skills, and excellent presentation abilities.
Hands‑on experience designing and delivering IT solutions in an agile environment is an asset.
Fluency in English is mandatory for documentation, supplier interactions, and meetings. Knowledge of French, Dutch, or German is a plus, as you will collaborate with team members speaking these languages.
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