Role of Enterprise Architect
inno.com helps its clients in becoming adaptable organizations with strategic focus. Key for future-proofness is a well-organized, executed and governed Enterprise Architecture capability. Our Enterprise Architects are objective trusted partners of Senior management (CXO level) and program leadership. They help determine where to invest to maximize results conform the strategic goals set (trade-offs), define cost effective mid- and long-term roadmaps (moving from AS-IS to to-be), spot opportunities and lower risk levels by early detection due to created transparency and an holistic view on the organization and market trends.
Are you excited to drive change and improvement? Do you love the architecture practice and applying its frameworks? Do you know how to position architecture and have it fit (in)to the customer's context and culture? Contact us now and let's discuss your potential over a nice cup of black coffee...
You are...
- Open & honest, highly energetic and intrinsically motivated
- A fast learner, absorbing new skills and adapting to new contexts
- Extremely customer focused, able to adapt quickly to new environments, connect easily with people and context
- A conceptual, creative and critical thinker
- Passionate about change and eager to push it forward while managing expectations
- A Natural communicator, able to explain complex topics in understandable language to different stakeholders
- Able to prioritize and deliver within agreed timelines
- Highly autonomous, proactive and responsible
- A team player able to support the learning of others and initiate improvement
- A role model and 'go to person' with high emotional intelligence
- Able to resolve conflicting points of view and align people
- Creative and building upon others' ideas, open to experiment with different approaches
- Capable to build trusted relationships with Senior management
- Able to deal with complexity and ambiguity
Our ideal candidate has the following qualifications
- Excellent English, Dutch and/or French communication and presentation skills
- Thorough knowledge of enterprise architecture and its sub-disciplines: business, information, application & infrastructure architecture...
- Good knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF), methods and tools (e.g. ARIS, Mega)
- Able to implement and adapt architecture frameworks to customer specific context and content
- Able to work with key stakeholders to define, formulate and evolve strategic roadmaps and blueprints
- Excellent knowledge of the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Knowledge of project methodologies e.g. Prince2 or Scaled Agile Framework (Safe)
- Good knowledge of modeling techniques e.g. Archimate, UML or BPMN
- Knowledge of system-of-systems interoperability approaches: Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), MicroServices, Open APIs, complex event processing, etc. and associated governance
- Knowledge of application development technologies, e.g. .NET or Java/JEE
- Knowledge of data management systems
- Knowledge of capability maturity models e.g. CMMI
- Knowledge of IT governance frameworks e.g. Valit, COBIT
- Knowledge of software product quality, e.g. Iso25000 and solution qualities e.g. usability, availability or security
- Knowledge of quality assurance and quality control
- Knowledge of enterprise organization design
