Senior Enterprise Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Enterprise Architect
• Focus: Data & Digitalization, enterprise architecture, capability-based planning

Description

You will drive enterprise architecture work for business-oriented target landscapes, including operationalization and migration paths. You will mentor decentralized domain architects, consolidate capability and domain target visions into a consistent enterprise architecture roadmap, and support cross-cutting strategic IT projects through architectural analyses and governance. You will prepare architecture boards and decision materials and establish uniform modeling standards to avoid redundancies across domains.

Responsibilities

• Coach and provide sparring for decentralized Business Domain Architects on capability maps, domain target visions, and roadmaps
• Consolidate partial target visions into a consistent end-to-end architecture roadmap; evolve architecture principles and technology guardrails
• Perform current-vs-future (as-is/to-be) architectural analyses and provide architectural support for strategic cross-cutting projects
• Prepare architecture boards and decision papers; align business target views with the enterprise architecture
• Establish uniform modeling standards to reduce load on the DBA Lead and prevent cross-domain redundancies

Requirements

• Strong enterprise architecture understanding and hands-on experience designing and operationalizing complex business-oriented target architectures (capability-based planning)
• Ability to structure and translate abstract target visions into concrete system landscapes and understandable migration paths
• Experience steering large projects along strategic target architectures in agile or hybrid operating models
• Excellent stakeholder management skills for moderating between decentralized architects, project leads, and external partners
• Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset (“good enough”) prioritizing evolutionary progress
• Very good German and English skills; willingness to work predominantly at the international headquarters in Neckarsulm

Benefits

• Structured onboarding with an introduction program and a personal mentor
• Targeted development programs and management training at the headquarters
• Support for work-life balance
• Neutral company car usable privately
• Opportunity to drive digitalization strategically and operationally with modern technologies, leveraging Data Science and AI