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Sopra Steria

IT consulting, digital services, and transformation

Enterprise Architect - Multiple Teams

Technology & Systems ConsultingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNieuwegein, NetherlandsHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A completed bachelor's or master's degree in an IT or business-administration field.
  • At least 7 years of experience in architecture roles within complex organizations.
  • Demonstrable experience with enterprise architecture and transformation challenges.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of architecture methodologies such as TOGAF, Open Agile Architecture, ArchiMate, RCDA, and/or Zachman.
  • Experience with strategic architecture and roadmapping.
  • Experience with business-IT alignment.
  • Experience with governance and decision-making.
  • Experience across multiple architecture domains (business, application, data, and technology), with the ability to create coherence among them.
  • Excellent communication skills in Dutch and English.
  • Experience managing stakeholders at senior level.
  • Relevant sector or industry knowledge, such as financial services, the public sector, or industry, and knowledge of current topics in those sectors.
  • Strong advisory skills, political sensitivity, and the ability to work across different stakeholder levels.
  • Strong analytical and conceptual thinking.
  • Ability to advise convincingly at senior stakeholder level.
  • A clear vision of architecture and digital transformation and the ability to translate it into concrete frameworks and direction.
  • Ability to build support and influence decision-making.
  • Ability to understand the connections between business, processes, and IT.

Responsibilities

  • Translate business strategy into IT strategy and architecture frameworks.
  • Develop roadmaps and transformation plans.
  • Guide transformation initiatives, such as application landscape modernization or cloud transitions.
  • Connect strategic architecture with execution in a continuous feedback loop, ensuring strategic choices are informed by practical insights and implemented.
  • Ensure coherence across application, data, and technology landscapes, considering modern architecture principles and technological developments.
  • Develop and substantiate business cases and scenario analyses to support value creation and decision-making.
  • Establish and apply architecture governance.
  • Advise and guide organizations in making and implementing strategic choices that shape their digital future and societal impact.
  • Work on strategic challenges in sectors such as the public sector, financial services, and utilities.
  • Collaborate with executives, management, product owners, architects, and other stakeholders to connect differing interests and build support for strategic choices.
  • Contribute to architecture visions and concrete client solutions as part of multidisciplinary teams and the architecture community.
  • Share knowledge through workshops and other subject-matter sessions.

About the Company

Sopra Steria

IT consulting, digital services, and transformation

Sopra Steria provides consulting, digital services and solutions to help large organizations transform their business through technology. Its offerings cover strategy, systems integration, cloud, cyber security, software development, and managed services, designed to be delivered end to end—from assessing needs and designing a plan to implementing and operating IT systems. The company combines deep knowledge of many industries with a collaborative approach to tailor projects to each client and to deliver measurable, sustainable improvements in performance. Differentiators include its European scale (about 51,000 employees across roughly 30 countries), broad scope—from strategy to operation—and emphasis on practical outcomes that help clients stay competitive. The group’s goal is to put digital to work for its clients in a way that creates a positive, more productive future for all stakeholders.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1968

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