Senior Enterprise Architect Digital

**Senior Enterprise Architect Digital**
DLL has a large and complex global IT landscape that supports a wide variety of business processes and many customers in multiple ways. This landscape is continuously changing driven by innovations, new business models, increasing digitalization, process improvements and introduction of the latest technology such as Artificial Intelligence. The Digital Business model of DLL requires many integrations with large international companies across the globe based on state-of-the-art architecture and technology. Increasing the ease speed and convenience for partners to do business is the challenge DLL faces in the coming years. In order to realize the business ambition DLL is looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect Digital

Are you the sparring partner for business and IT leaders to bring strategy into practice by creating, embedding and realizing business and technology architecture taking long term in
- and external developments into account? Are you the thought leader on enterprise architecture who can motivate, inspire and facilitate a global community of lead
- and solution architects with the objective to further mature the architecture practice?

Find out more here about how you can unleash your full potential at DLL
**Day to day**:
To become a member of a small, experienced team of 3 Enterprise Architects that operates globally to inspire, motivate and facilitate a broad architecture community residing Delivery Teams in other parts of the company. These teams are responsible for IT operations and to support business change in an Agile way. Your role is to guide and coach these teams pro-actively. You can also expect to work with ambitious business management that always is looking for new opportunities. In this role you are the orchestrator of change. The globe is your working field and thus you need to travel on a regular basis.

**You can**
- Participate in the analysis, evaluation and development of enterprise long-term strategic and operating planning to ensure that the Enterprise Architecture objectives are consistent with the enterprise’s long-term business objectives.
- Collaborate with Executive and Senior Business and IT management in making mid-term investment plans. You do a health check on the IT landscape, analyze the business strategy and assess the strategic investment portfolio with the objective to ensure that business & technology investments will provide the maximum value for the business today and into the foreseeable future. You can create and maintain the Future State Architecture, including Roadmap and Transition Architectures to steer developments in agile Delivery Teams.
- Lead and facilitate Trend Analysis by analyzing Market Developments and by organizing workshops with business and IT stakeholders to discover potential disruptors in the Technology Market that may impact the DLL business model.
- Sponsor and facilitate so called Incubators, innovative projects to prove the impact of these disruptors in terms of opportunities or threads.
- Motivate, inspire and facilitate a functional team of Architects securing architecture alignment in investment portfolios and program roadmaps. The Architects report into IT Delivery Teams in other parts of the organization globally each having its own maturity, evolution speed, business priority and baseline IT landscape.
- Execute architecture governance by enforcing the architecture process in the organization and chairing governance meetings with Lead Architects to make and capture decisions made regarding architecture.
- Govern the architecture repository, owned by Lead Architects, to ensure the architecture meets the DLL ArchiMate Standards and actively coach Lead and Solution Architects on the use of ArchiMate.
- Set Architecture Standards that clearly define the architecture framework for the Lead Architects in the Delivery Teams to achieve re-use, economies of scale and compliance. Actively communicate these standards and continuously improve them to meet market best practice and customer needs.
- Own the Enterprise Architecture Backlog including the exceptions made to the Architecture Standards and ensure timely review and follow up is done by business and IT management.

**All members enjoy**
- Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity.
- Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities.
- Flexible hours with possibility to work from home
- Career development opportunities: online learning, member development programs.
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“We not only live up to the expectations of our customers for today, but also anticipate their market needs of tomorrow.”
**Essentials**:

- Over 10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, preferably in the financial industry.
- University level Education (MSc).
- Excellent communication in speech and writing in English.
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