Enterprise Architect

Practical Info

Regime: Full time / Part-time

Location: Brussel / Amsterdam

Level Of Experience: Senior

You bring clarity to complexity, bridging business strategy with technology architecture. With a system-wide perspective, you define target architectures and roadmaps that enable organizations to transform with confidence, balancing innovation, governance, and agility to ensure long-term alignment between business and IT. Don't know if you're the right fit?

We strongly encourage you to apply if you're interested! We'd love to hear how you can join our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Who?

You are an experienced practitioner with a passion for delivering business and IT transformations that matter. You’re excited about complex environments and have the skills to bring structure to the chaos.

You thrive on solving problems, collaborating with others, and delivering meaningful results. If you are a strategic thinker with a hands-on approach, eager to inspire teams and deliver win-win solutions for clients, we’d love to hear from you. We value potential as much as experience, so if you align with our mission and values, we are eager to learn about your growth areas and strengths.

What will you do?

As an Enterprise Architect, your role involves:

• Lead the planning and design of high-level IT architectures and roadmaps that support business strategy and operational goals, ensuring requirements, quality attributes, and constraints are met.
• Collaborate with technical IT architects and development teams to translate business objectives into practical designs and solutions.
• Provide strategic direction by aligning IT capabilities with business goals, covering areas such as cloud, data, enterprise systems, and digital platforms.
• Navigate resistance, resolve conflicts, and create alignment by influencing stakeholders across multiple levels, including business executives and IT leaders.
• Break down complex projects into short, achievable iterations that demonstrate tangible business outcomes for clients and maintain their momentum.
• Work in blended teams (IT, business, operations) to co-create solutions and foster a win-win environment, embracing servant leadership by prioritizing team growth and productive collaboration.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior management, guiding decision-making and ensuring that digital transformations deliver measurable business value.

Our ideal candidate

• 10+ years of experience in IT roles, with a significant part spent in enterprise architecture or IT strategy in a corporate environment.
• A strong technical foundation, ideally having started in IT development, systems architecture, or infrastructure before transitioning into business-focused roles.
• Proven ability to lead or contribute to large-scale business and IT transformation initiatives, involving multiple stakeholders and complex IT systems.
• Experience with selecting and designing fit-for-purpose business SaaS solutions, such as ERP, CRM, or e-commerce platforms. Knowledge of modern enterprise data & AI platform architectures is considered a plus.
• Ability to operate in an agile delivery context while ensuring long-term architectural alignment.
• Excellent communication & people skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics and connect with both business leaders and technical teams.
• Conflict resolution and decision arbitration skills to align diverse perspectives and mediate productive collaboration between business and IT stakeholders.
• Pragmatic and outcome-driven approach, with the ability to structure ambiguity and deliver impactful business results.
• Willingness to travel to client sites as required.

What you can expect

• The opportunity to carry out important projects in complete freedom and autonomy, expressing your talents.
• An entrepreneurial and open company culture that focuses on the bigger picture by offering an unrivalled level of knowledge, customer focus and collegiality.
• A continuous feedback culture with a desire to keep growing and gaining trust.
• A unique group of colleagues and a partner/coach by your side, all there to help.
• Inspiring and fun events throughout the year.