Head of Enterprise Architect (m/w/o)

Job offer

Your main tasks and responsibilities:

• Strategy and governance: Defining and continuously developing the architecture development strategy and its principles, and creating a framework to ensure consistency and scalability in the hybrid infrastructure.
• Creating a roadmap and target state: Creating an IT roadmap, prioritizing transformation projects, and aligning technical goals with the group's business strategy.
• Platform and cloud architecture: Responsibility for decisions regarding cloud and platform technologies, support for cloud migrations, and roadmap creation
• Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM): Implementation and development of EAM tools (e.g., LeanIX, Signavio), modeling of business, data, application, and infrastructure architecture, solution repository management.
• Large project governance: Design reviews and architecture governance within IT transformation projects, ensuring integration, interfaces, and data concepts.
• EAM strategy: Collaboration on building and developing EAM.
• Stakeholder management: Close collaboration with the CIO, specialist departments, security, infrastructure, and product teams; translation of business requirements into technical concepts.
• Team leadership and skills development: Building, leading, and developing a team of architects; basic team management and mentoring of team members.

Requirements:

• Education: Degree in computer science, business informatics, economics with a focus on IT, or equivalent qualifications.
• Experience: Many years of experience in IT, several years in architectural roles; experience in leadership or as a chief architect in large transformation programs is expected.
• Methods and tools: Knowledge of EA frameworks (TOGAF, ArchiMate), tools such as LeanIX/Signavio, cloud and integration architectures
• Technical knowledge: Broad understanding of cloud platforms, integration patterns, data architecture, API strategies, and possibly SAP environments.
• Language skills: Fluent English, German is an advantage.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary based on performance and personal commitment
• One-year fixed-term contract (with the possibility of extension)
• 30 days of vacation
• Annual bonus
• Flexible working hours + home office
• Stable team
• Contribution to pension fund and life insurance
• Free language courses
• Contributions from the social fund for sports, culture, and leisure
• Prospects for further professional training and personal development
• Contribution to recreation