Senior ICT Governance & Strategy Consultant

Function

We're looking for an experienced ICT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture Consultant to support our client in defining the future vision for a large-scale ICT operating model transformation. This strategic assignment focuses on assessing the current IT organization, evaluating multiple future operating models, and designing a roadmap towards a sustainable, scalable, and efficient ICT service delivery model. You'll work with senior stakeholders to ensure business continuity while balancing governance, shared services, organizational autonomy, and long-term digital ambitions.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform a comprehensive assessment of the current ICT organization, operating model, governance, and service delivery landscape.
• Develop and evaluate multiple future-state scenarios, including clear analyses of advantages, disadvantages, risks, costs, organizational impact, and business continuity considerations.
• Design the target enterprise architecture and define a strategic roadmap for the selected transformation scenario.
• Assess the impact of each scenario on organizational capabilities, critical competencies, budgets, governance, and operational effectiveness.
• Define a future governance model with clear roles, responsibilities, decision-making processes, and accountability across all stakeholders.
• Benchmark comparable shared service organizations and public sector operating models, identifying best practices and lessons learned.
• Develop a strategic vision for shared services, including governance, service ownership, funding models, service level agreements, and performance reporting.
• Define the optimal distribution of ICT services across organizational levels, balancing centralized and decentralized responsibilities.
• Inventory and prioritize strategic ICT initiatives, identifying projects that should be accelerated, reoriented, or postponed to support the future operating model.
• Provide recommendations on data management, integration capabilities, knowledge transfer, and long-term organizational resilience throughout the transformation.

Your Profile

• Extensive experience in ICT strategy, enterprise architecture, or large-scale organizational transformation programs.
• Proven expertise in designing ICT operating models, shared service organizations, and governance frameworks within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong background in enterprise architecture, business transformation, and strategic roadmap development.
• Experience performing scenario analyses, business capability assessments, and organizational impact evaluations.
• Excellent understanding of ICT governance, service management, sourcing strategies, and organizational design.
• Experience facilitating workshops and engaging executive stakeholders to build consensus around strategic decisions.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex challenges into actionable recommendations.
• Experience within large public sector or highly regulated organizations is considered a strong asset.

Deliverables

• Assessment of the current ICT organization and operating model.
• Comparative scenario analysis with strategic recommendations.
• Target enterprise architecture for the future operating model.
• Shared services vision, governance framework, and service definition.
• Strategic vision for service distribution and organizational responsibilities.
• Governance model and implementation roadmap aligned with the selected scenario.
• Prioritized portfolio of ICT initiatives, including projects to accelerate, reorient, or defer.
• Recommendations to safeguard critical competencies, strengthen collaboration, and ensure sustainable ICT service delivery throughout the transformation.

Contactperson & Reference

• Reference #: INW27033
• Marilyn Weytens
• marilyn.weytens@i4m.be