Senior Enterprise Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Enterprise Architect

• Focus: Data & Digitalization

• Key theme: Translating business target architectures into system landscapes, migration paths, and consistent enterprise roadmaps

Description

You will support the enterprise architecture of a data and digitalization organization by developing and operationalizing complex, business-oriented target architectures. The role involves guiding decentralized business domain architects, consolidating domain views into a consistent overall architecture roadmap, and preparing architecture boards and decision materials. You will emphasize pragmatic, evolution-focused progress (“good enough”) over theoretical perfection.

Responsibilities

• Coach and provide sparring for decentralized business domain architects on capability maps, domain target architectures, and roadmaps

• Consolidate partial target architectures into a consistent end-to-end enterprise architecture roadmap; evolve architecture principles and technology guardrails

• Perform current-to-future (as-is/to-be) analyses and provide architectural support for strategic cross-cutting projects to ensure alignment with the IT target vision

• Prepare architecture boards and decision papers; coordinate and align functional target views with enterprise architecture

• Establish uniform modeling standards to reduce workload for the DBA lead and prevent redundancies across domains

Requirements

• Strong enterprise architecture knowledge and practical experience designing and operationalizing complex, business-oriented target architecture visions (capability-based planning)

• Ability to structure and translate abstract target visions into concrete system landscapes and understandable migration paths

• Experience steering large projects based on strategic target pictures within agile or hybrid operating models

• Strong stakeholder management skills to moderate confidently between decentralized architects, project leadership, and external partners

• Pragmatic mindset with a “good enough” approach prioritizing evolutionary progress

• Very good German and English language skills and willingness to work mainly at the international headquarters in Neckarsulm

Benefits

• Structured onboarding program and a personal mentor (patent) to ease your start in the job, organization, and region

• Targeted development programs and management training at the headquarters

• Support for work-life balance

• Neutral company car available for private use