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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