Senior Enterprise Architect

Function

We’re looking for an Enterprise Architect to join our client’s team and contribute to a cross-organizational architecture vision within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment. In this role, you will play a key part in aligning architectural practices, driving consistency, and enabling collaboration across multiple entities. You will act as a bridge between organizations, ensuring harmonization and reuse of capabilities and architectural building blocks.

Responsibilities & Tasks

You will operate at a strategic level while remaining hands-on in guiding architecture practices and collaboration:

• Collect, analyze, and structure capability maps across multiple entities
• Drive harmonization of terminology, scope, and definitions to ensure consistency
• Develop and maintain a shared capability map at an organizational ecosystem level
• Identify overlaps, gaps, and inconsistencies, and propose consolidation opportunities
• Support functional decomposition of capabilities into functions and sub-functions
• Provide methodology, templates, and best practices to ensure alignment
• Facilitate collaboration between enterprise architects across different organizations
• Prepare and lead architecture workshops and alignment sessions
• Act as a mediator and problem-solver for overlapping initiatives and architectural risks
• Contribute to strategic roadmap development and prioritization of capabilities
• Align capabilities with ongoing and future initiatives and projects

Profile & Expertise

Our client is looking for a strong communicator and strategic thinker with solid architectural expertise:

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect in complex environments
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF)
• Hands-on experience with capability mapping and architectural modeling
• Solid analytical skills with the ability to structure and simplify complexity
• Familiarity with federated or multi-entity architecture environments is a plus
• Affinity with regulated or public-sector-like environments is an advantage
• Ability to facilitate collaboration and drive consensus across stakeholders

Additional Information

• Part-time engagement with regular collaboration across teams
• You will operate in a multilingual, multi-stakeholder environment requiring strong alignment skills
• Opportunity to contribute to large-scale transformation and strategic alignment initiatives

Language requirements: Dutch, English, and French are required.