Publiée le 18 juin
Mission du poste
Enterprise architecture leadership
Define, own, and continuously evolve the Enterprise Architecture vision, target state, and principles
Maintain enterprise-wide capability maps and translate them into architectural direction
Establish and enforce architectural guardrails to guide decision‑making across teams
Ensure alignment between business strategy, IT strategy, and architecture evolution
Portfolio and investment alignment
Shape and support demand intake and portfolio prioritization from an architectural perspective
Define and maintain the architecture runway to enable business initiatives and support business agility
Ensure alignment between portfolio investments and target architecture
Advise on trade‑offs between business value, technical sustainability, and complexity
Domain‑level engagement
Guide and coach domain architects, ensuring consistency across domains
Facilitate alignment across enterprise platforms and BU‑specific solutions
Ensure solution designs contribute to an integrated and coherent enterprise landscape
For selected domains, act directly as a domain architect: creating roadmaps, maintaining standards, facilitating solution alignment
Integration and standards
Govern enterprise architecture standards and guardrails, ensuring interoperability, scalability, and security across IT and BU‑delivered systems
Ensure end‑to‑end architectural alignment across central enterprise systems and BU‑specific systems, enabling an integrated enterprise landscape
Embed non‑functional requirements (e.g., performance, scalability, security, maintainability) by design, ensuring reliable, secure, and cost‑effective operations
Solution selection leadership
Oversee solution evaluation processes for major enterprise and cross‑BU systems
Ensure solution selection decisions align with strategic roadmaps, architectural principles, and long‑term sustainability
Agile architecture enablement
Act as a senior leader of the Architecture Enabling Team — embedding agile activities where needed to support delivery: supporting teams in backlog refinement and solution design, participating in PI Planning and Preparation, shaping the architecture runway and enablers
Foster an agile, just‑enough architecture approach that avoids stage‑gate delays and heavy upfront design while maintaining alignment with strategic direction
Your profile
At least 5 years of proven experience in enterprise‑level architecture leadership in complex, multi‑BU environments
Strong skills in business capability modeling, architecture road‑mapping, and strategic portfolio alignment
Strong facilitation skills; able to translate business goals into actionable design guardrails
Strong people and team leadership skills, with demonstrated experience in influencing, coaching, and aligning teams through non‑hierarchical influence as well as direct line management
Strong ability to influence senior business and IT stakeholders
Knowledge of agile frameworks (e.g., SAFe, LeSS) and their architectural roles
Good, professional communication skills in English
Location and type of contract
Leuven, Belgium
Full‑time
Hybrid
Mid‑senior level
CV in English
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