Enterprise Architect

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A public-sector organization undergoing a major transformation and the creation of a new federal structure is seeking a highly experienced Enterprise Architect / Business Architect to support strategic and tactical architecture initiatives.

The objective is to professionalize data exchanges between internal applications and external stakeholders, improve reporting capabilities through a centralized data layer, and contribute to the definition of a common target architecture aligned with a large-scale inter-organizational digital transformation program.

The selected consultant will play a key role in documenting the current architecture landscape, defining future-state architectures, improving architecture governance and documentation, and identifying synergies across multiple organizations and transformation initiatives.

Missions:

Enterprise & Business Architecture

• Establish a comprehensive Business Architecture framework.
• Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and the application/data architecture layers.
• Support strategic and tactical decision-making.
• Develop and maintain Business Capability Maps.

Application Architecture

• Perform a complete inventory of the existing application landscape.
• Analyze and document the current-state (AS-IS) application architecture.
• Define the target-state (TO-BE) application architecture.
• Assess application interdependencies and integration requirements.

Data Architecture

• Identify and document all data flows across the organization.
• Map relationships and interfaces between applications.
• Analyze internal and external data exchanges.
• Design and propose a Centralized Data Layer to streamline data sharing and integration.
• Support data consolidation and reporting initiatives.
• Optimize data exchange mechanisms across the organization.
• Work in alignment with existing Azure Data Warehouse and Power BI environments.
• Collaborate with technical and data stakeholders to ensure architectural coherence.

Architecture Governance & Documentation

• Review and assess existing architecture documentation.
• Identify documentation gaps and inconsistencies.
• Define and execute an action plan to bring architecture documentation to the required maturity level.
• Improve architecture governance practices and standards.

Transformation & Strategic Alignment

• Analyze architectural synergies and gaps across internal programs and external transformation initiatives.
• Identify optimization opportunities between existing architectures and broader transformation programs.
• Contribute to the definition of a shared target architecture across multiple entities.
• Support organizational transformation initiatives linked to the creation of a new federal structure.

Activities:

• Inventory business applications and systems.
• Document current and future architecture landscapes.
• Create capability maps and architecture models.
• Map end-to-end data flows and interfaces.
• Analyze application-to-application and application-to-external-party integrations.
• Assess data warehouse usage and reporting dependencies.
• Design centralized data management solutions.
• Produce architecture deliverables and recommendations.
• Conduct architecture assessments and gap analyses.
• Review and improve architecture documentation.
• Facilitate collaboration between business, data, and technical stakeholders.
• Participate in architecture alignment workshops.
• Define architecture roadmaps and transformation recommendations.
• Support domains such as:
• ICT
• Human Resources
• Facilities / Logistics
• Finance
• Procurement

You have the following skills:

Enterprise Architecture

• Enterprise Architecture expertise (Expert level).
• Enterprise-wide architecture assessment and design.
• Architecture governance and target architecture definition.
• AS-IS / TO-BE architecture modelling.
• Architecture roadmap development.
• Business and IT alignment.

Business Architecture

• Business Architecture design.
• Business Capability Mapping.
• Strategic and tactical stakeholder engagement.
• Organizational transformation support.

Data & Services Architecture

• Data Architecture expertise (Expert level).
• Data flow modelling and analysis.
• Integration architecture.
• Data exchange optimization.
• Centralized Data Layer design.
• Data warehouse environments.
• Service-oriented architecture concepts.

Analytical & Governance Skills

• Documentation analysis and improvement.
• Gap analysis and optimization assessment.
• Architecture governance and standards.
• Cross-organizational architecture alignment.
• Stakeholder management.

Languages

Mandatory

• Active professional knowledge of French or Dutch

Nice to Have

• English

Seniority

• Senior Enterprise Architect profile.
• Recent experience in an Enterprise Architect role.
• Expert-level experience in Enterprise Architecture and Data & Services Architecture.