Enterprise Architect

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our team in Brussels. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping, defining, and governing the enterprise architecture landscape, ensuring full alignment between business strategy, operating models, and technology capabilities. You will act as a strategic advisor to senior business and IT stakeholders, translating business objectives into end-to-end architecture roadmaps that span business capabilities, applications, data, integration, and technology platforms.

You will collaborate closely with business leaders, domain architects, delivery teams, and external partners to ensure consistent architecture governance and alignment across all initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, and target-state architecture.
• Develop and evolve multi-year architecture roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
• Translate strategic business objectives into actionable architecture initiatives.
• Drive simplification and rationalization of application, data, and technology landscapes.Business & IT Alignment
• Partner with senior business and IT stakeholders to align architecture with business capabilities.
• Lead business capability mapping and identify transformation opportunities.
• Ensure technology decisions support long-term business outcomes and operating model evolution.

Architecture Governance

Establish and enforce architecture governance frameworks, standards, and decision

processes. Lead architecture review boards and provide guidance on strategic initiatives.

Ensure compliance with enterprise principles, security policies, and regulatory requirements.

Promote reuse of patterns, platforms, and capabilities across the enterprise.

Transformation & Modernization

Lead architecture input for large-scale transformation programs (cloud, digital, integration,

data). Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures.identify technical debt and drive modernization strategies. Support cloud adoption and hybrid architecture evolution.

Stakeholder Leadership

Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership (CIO, CTO, business directors).

Facilitate cross-functional alignment between business, IT, and vendors.

Influence architectural decisions across complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Support decision-making through structured analysis and recommendations.

Architecture Domains

Ensure consistency across business, application, data, integration, and technology

architecture domains.

Collaborate with solution, data, security, and infrastructure architects.

Define and maintain enterprise architecture viewpoints and models.

Business Cases & Value Realisation

Support development of business cases and investment proposals.

Assess architectural impacts, risks, costs, and benefits of initiatives.

Contribute to value tracking and benefit realization of transformation programs.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect in complex, enterprise-scale

environments.

• Proven ability to define enterprise architecture strategies and transformation roadmaps.

• Strong experience with TOGAF, ArchiMate, or equivalent frameworks.

• Experience establishing and operating architecture governance models.

• Strong understanding of business capability modelling and operating models.

• Demonstrated success in simplifying complex IT landscapes.

• Experience working with senior stakeholders in large organizations.

• Strong communication and influencing skills at executive level.

• Experience in hybrid environments (on-premise and cloud).

• Fluent in English & Dutch

Technical Understanding

◦ Cloud platforms (Azure preferred, AWS beneficial)

◦ Integration and API architectures

◦ Data platforms and analytics ecosystems

◦ Microservices and modern application architectures

◦ ERP/CRM ecosystems

◦ Identity and security architectures

Preferred

• TOGAF certification.

• Experience with architecture tooling (LeanIX, Sparx EA, Archi).

• Experience in regulated industries (financial services, public sector, utilities).

• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (ISO27001, GDPR, NIS2).