Business Architect
Posted 4 hours 56 minutes ago by Spilberg
Are you a seasoned Business Architect with a passion for bridging business strategy and technology? Lead and shape the architecture of an entire area, setting direction in a way that contributes to the broader enterprise landscape. You will guide a team of 8 solution architects and enable cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, future-proof solutions.
You'll drive cloud migrations, manage configuration and portal platforms, and translate strategic objectives into actionable roadmaps. In addition, you support the full Engineering Journey: helping engineers simplify their work, improving solution design, enhancing the development process, and enabling continuous delivery across the entire software development lifecycle.
Collaborate with business and tech leads in a dynamic, agile environment where your ideas truly make an impact.
Support engineers throughout the Engineering Journey, making their work simpler and more efficient.
Simplify solutions and provide guidance in making design and technology choices.
Improve the software development process, including best practices and workflow optimizations.
Enable continuous delivery and automation to accelerate development cycles.
Oversee and enhance the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from design to deployment.
- Portal environments providing employees with insights into teams, applications, and services;
- Intelligence platforms delivering contextual data for better decision-making;
- Co-creation initiatives allowing teams across the organization to contribute to the platforms while maintaining centralized control.
In this role, you will functionally lead a team of solution architects and collaborate closely with the business and tech leads in a strategic steering group. You will also be part of the broader business architecture team, reporting to the Lead Business Architect.
- Take ownership of the business architecture within the domain;
- Functionally lead a team of solution architects, ensuring squads deliver the right solutions at the right time;
- Translate strategic objectives into practical architectural solutions ;
- Guide and advise stakeholders on architecture decisions and IT landscape structure;
- Contribute to a clear, agile, and sustainable IT landscape;
- Support co-creation and collaboration across teams while maintaining control of the architecture.
- Master's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience;
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience, with at least 4 years in an architecture role;
- Strong leadership skills with experience coaching and guiding teams;
- Conceptual thinker capable of translating strategy into actionable solutions;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus;
- Experience with IT Service Management, cloud platforms, portals, and data integration is a strong advantage.
- A challenging and diverse role in an innovative and agile environment ;
- Opportunity to contribute to strategic IT initiatives with organization-wide impact;
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams with space for initiative and innovation;
- Flexible working options, including hybrid work.