Enterprise Architect Position

Start Date: 13/04

End Date: 31/12/2026

Location: Brussels

Work Regime: Full-time

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Contribute to the implementation of a federated target operating model and ensure alignment with the Digital Platform by translating guardrails into consumable guidance for local delivery.
• Support strategic studies, evaluations, and decision-making discussions.
• Coach and provide guidance to other architecture roles across the organization.
• Communicate the application strategy and related processes to business and IT stakeholders.
• Collect and analyze business gaps to assess and evaluate the IT landscape, in close collaboration with business architecture.
• Conduct cross-domain trade-off analyses and cost-benefit analyses to deliver well-founded architectural recommendations.
• Maintain and evolve the application portfolio in collaboration with application owners and key stakeholders.
• Gather application-related information as input for analysis.
• Maintain the enterprise architecture repository as a single source of truth for all architecture artefacts, models, and decisions.
• 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.
• Ensure alignment and integration of architecture processes with other IT management processes.
• Perform Initiative Architecture Alignment Assessments and conduct periodic Architecture Compliance Reviews.
• Help define, govern, and maintain enterprise data architecture standards and assess initiative-level data designs against these standards.
• Propose a realistic roadmap with the architectural points that need to increase in maturity.

Requirements:

• At least 10 years of experience in an Enterprise Architecture role.
• Proven experience facilitating ARB sessions and producing decision packs with traceability.
• Strong autonomy and initiative, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Demonstrates a results-oriented mindset.
• 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.
• Collaborative mindset, pragmatism, and ability to co-construct.
• Ability to advocate and promote the adoption of reference architectures across teams.
• Familiarity with microservices and event-driven architecture approaches.
• Knowledge of Gartner architecture frameworks.
• 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.
• Experience in merger or acquisition contexts and the associated transformation journeys is considered a plus.
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering IT solutions in an agile environment is an asset.
• Knowledge and experience in the Energy and Utilities sector is a plus.
• Fluency in English is mandatory. Knowledge of French, Dutch, or German is a plus.