Enterprise Architecture Consultant (m/f/d)
Wavestone Germany AG
Ansprechpartner: Selma Halilovic
Berlin, Deutschland
UnternehmensverwaltungEnterprise Architecture FrameworkIntegriertes Architektur-FrameworkBetriebsarchitekturAufbauorganisationSolution Architecture
Beschreibung
We are seeking an Enterprise Architecture Consultant to help operationalize a federated enterprise architecture operating model across a complex, multi-entity organization. The consultant will advise and facilitate the establishment of practical governance and working practices, while final architecture decisions remain with the organization’s governance bodies.
Weitere Rahmendaten
Einsatzart:
Auslastung: 100 %
Branche: Other
Your tasks
• Review the approved enterprise architecture operating model and current architecture practices across group and local entities, identifying gaps to be addressed
• Develop a prioritized, executable implementation roadmap and backlog with milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points, and propose suitable pilots with scope, approach, and success criteria
• Track implementation progress against agreed milestones and actions, and report deviations, risks, and decisions required
• Define and continuously improve the architecture governance framework, including principles, standards, policies, reference architectures, and golden scenarios
• Design the Architecture Review Board decision workflow and establish or refine board practices, including review triggers, decision packs, traceability, decision recording, escalation, delegated routing, waivers, compliance levels, and fast-track procedures
• Clarify architecture role mandates and decision rights, and define interactions, handovers, and escalation paths between architecture roles and stakeholders
• Embed proportionate architecture touchpoints into portfolio and funding, demand intake, project and product delivery, application lifecycle, security and risk, data and integration, and technology or vendor selection processes
• Select and document the minimum viable architecture artefact set and define ownership, approval routes, versioning, review triggers, and retirement rules
• Define a focused KPI framework and measurement approach, including an initial baseline for architecture adoption, decision effectiveness, delivery enablement, reuse, compliance, risk, and stakeholder value
• Establish an Architecture Community and focused working groups, defining their purpose, participation, and cadence
• Prepare and facilitate workshops to align group, local, business, product, delivery, engineering, security, data, and infrastructure stakeholders on shared priorities, decisions, and reusable solutions
• Prepare and deliver knowledge-transfer sessions and handover materials to enable internal staff to operate the architecture model independently
Must have competences
• At least 10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture
• Experience with architecture governance in federated, multi-entity or similarly complex environments
• Experience facilitating Architecture Review Board sessions and preparing decision-ready packs with traceability
• Experience implementing delegated decision rights, Architecture Decision Records, waivers, compliance reviews and architecture service models
• Experience translating an architecture operating model or strategy into an implementation roadmap and working practices, including in ambiguous situations
• Experience facilitating and managing stakeholders across senior management, architecture, business, product, engineering, infrastructure and delivery teams
• Knowledge of IT processes and recognized approaches, including ITIL, TOGAF, ArchiMate and Domain-Driven Design
• Fluency in English for documentation, supplier interactions and meetings
• Ability to substantiate the stated experience through personal project references that include the contract subject, performance period, client, activity undertaken and a brief description of the activity
Nice to have competences
• Experience designing and delivering IT solutions in an agile environment
• Experience in the energy and utilities sector, particularly with transmission system operators
• Knowledge of French, Dutch or German
Additional information
The role supports remote work, with onsite work in Berlin and Brussels listed as an additional location.
Let’s power the future together
Vom Business Case bis hin zur Umsetzung: Als führendes Beratungsunternehmen für strategische Transformationen sind wir vertrauenswürdiger Partner für unsere Kunden - und für unsere Mitarbeitenden. Verantwortungsvoll, leistungsstark und immer mit dem Menschen im Fokus. #WeAreWavestone
Mit unserem 360°-Portfolio an Beratungsleistungen verbinden wir erstklassige Branchenexpertise mit einem breiten Spektrum an branchenübergreifenden Kompetenzen, arbeiten interdisziplinär und denken über den Tellerrand hinaus. Unseren Partnerunternehmen und Freelancern:Freelancerinnen können wir so umfassende Perspektiven innerhalb unserer eigenen Projekte bieten und unterstützen als langjähriger Rahmenvertragspartner bei der Besetzung von Projektvakanzen – zeitnah und direkt.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Kontaktaufnahme!
Ihr direkter Ansprechpartner bei Wavestone
Selma Halilovic
Telefon: *****
E-Mail: ***@***.eu
Weitere Rahmendaten
Einsatzart:
Auslastung: 100 %
Branche: Other
Your tasks
• Review the approved enterprise architecture operating model and current architecture practices across group and local entities, identifying gaps to be addressed
• Develop a prioritized, executable implementation roadmap and backlog with milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points, and propose suitable pilots with scope, approach, and success criteria
• Track implementation progress against agreed milestones and actions, and report deviations, risks, and decisions required
• Define and continuously improve the architecture governance framework, including principles, standards, policies, reference architectures, and golden scenarios
• Design the Architecture Review Board decision workflow and establish or refine board practices, including review triggers, decision packs, traceability, decision recording, escalation, delegated routing, waivers, compliance levels, and fast-track procedures
• Clarify architecture role mandates and decision rights, and define interactions, handovers, and escalation paths between architecture roles and stakeholders
• Embed proportionate architecture touchpoints into portfolio and funding, demand intake, project and product delivery, application lifecycle, security and risk, data and integration, and technology or vendor selection processes
• Select and document the minimum viable architecture artefact set and define ownership, approval routes, versioning, review triggers, and retirement rules
• Define a focused KPI framework and measurement approach, including an initial baseline for architecture adoption, decision effectiveness, delivery enablement, reuse, compliance, risk, and stakeholder value
• Establish an Architecture Community and focused working groups, defining their purpose, participation, and cadence
• Prepare and facilitate workshops to align group, local, business, product, delivery, engineering, security, data, and infrastructure stakeholders on shared priorities, decisions, and reusable solutions
• Prepare and deliver knowledge-transfer sessions and handover materials to enable internal staff to operate the architecture model independently
Must have competences
• At least 10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture
• Experience with architecture governance in federated, multi-entity or similarly complex environments
• Experience facilitating Architecture Review Board sessions and preparing decision-ready packs with traceability
• Experience implementing delegated decision rights, Architecture Decision Records, waivers, compliance reviews and architecture service models
• Experience translating an architecture operating model or strategy into an implementation roadmap and working practices, including in ambiguous situations
• Experience facilitating and managing stakeholders across senior management, architecture, business, product, engineering, infrastructure and delivery teams
• Knowledge of IT processes and recognized approaches, including ITIL, TOGAF, ArchiMate and Domain-Driven Design
• Fluency in English for documentation, supplier interactions and meetings
• Ability to substantiate the stated experience through personal project references that include the contract subject, performance period, client, activity undertaken and a brief description of the activity
Nice to have competences
• Experience designing and delivering IT solutions in an agile environment
• Experience in the energy and utilities sector, particularly with transmission system operators
• Knowledge of French, Dutch or German
Additional information
The role supports remote work, with onsite work in Berlin and Brussels listed as an additional location.
Let’s power the future together
Vom Business Case bis hin zur Umsetzung: Als führendes Beratungsunternehmen für strategische Transformationen sind wir vertrauenswürdiger Partner für unsere Kunden - und für unsere Mitarbeitenden. Verantwortungsvoll, leistungsstark und immer mit dem Menschen im Fokus. #WeAreWavestone
Mit unserem 360°-Portfolio an Beratungsleistungen verbinden wir erstklassige Branchenexpertise mit einem breiten Spektrum an branchenübergreifenden Kompetenzen, arbeiten interdisziplinär und denken über den Tellerrand hinaus. Unseren Partnerunternehmen und Freelancern:Freelancerinnen können wir so umfassende Perspektiven innerhalb unserer eigenen Projekte bieten und unterstützen als langjähriger Rahmenvertragspartner bei der Besetzung von Projektvakanzen – zeitnah und direkt.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Kontaktaufnahme!
Ihr direkter Ansprechpartner bei Wavestone
Selma Halilovic
Telefon: *****
E-Mail: ***@***.eu