Enterprise Architect Business

About the job

The Role

For a long-term transformation project in the field of national infrastructure management, we are looking for an experienced individual as Enterprise Architect with a focus on Business Architecture.

In this key role, you will strengthen the central portfolio team and shape the professional and organisational target architecture for the management and entire lifecycle of a complex transport infrastructure.

You form the interface between strategic business objectives, departments, organisation, and IT. In doing so, you develop a holistic Business Architecture that brings together business requirements, capabilities, processes, roles, and responsibilities in a consistent target picture.

A particular focus is on the further development of existing structures, the harmonisation of different working methods, and the creation of an overarching transformation and implementation roadmap.

Collaboration takes place closely with the departments, IT architecture, and other relevant stakeholders.

The Responsibilities

In this role, you will take on the following tasks in particular:

• Development of Business Architecture: Building, structuring, and continuous further development of the professional and organisational target architecture.
• Business Capability Management: Identification, modelling, and further development of business capabilities as well as their linkage with processes and organisational units.
• Process and Organisational Analysis: Analysis of existing business processes, roles, responsibilities, and collaboration models.
• Development of Target Pictures: Creation of professional and organisational target architectures, architectural principles, and intermediate states.
• Gap and Maturity Analyses: Comparison of the current situation with the desired target picture and identification of necessary changes.
• Requirements Management: Consolidation of different professional requirements and perspectives from various organisational units.
• Roadmap and Transformation: Derivation of concrete fields of action, transformation steps, priorities, and implementation recommendations.
• Stakeholder Management: Coordination with different stakeholder groups and ensuring a common understanding of architecture.
• Workshops and Decision Support: Preparation and facilitation of business architecture workshops as well as creation of decision support materials and presentations.
• Documentation and Visualisation: Creation and maintenance of architectural models, capability maps, process models, heatmaps, and other architectural artefacts.

You prepare the professional decision-making bases and support those responsible in strategic and organisational architecture decisions.

What We Are Looking For

For this demanding role, we are seeking an analytically strong and communicative individual with solid experience in Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture.

Professional Qualifications:

• Several years of professional experience as an Enterprise Architect, Business Architect, or in a comparable role.
• Sound knowledge in the development and documentation of Business Architectures.
• Experience in modelling business capabilities, business processes, organisational structures, and role models.
• Proven experience in developing professional target pictures, gap analyses, and transformation roadmaps.
• Very good understanding of the interplay between business, organisation, data, and IT.
• Experience in infrastructure management, asset management, or comparable complex organisational and transformation projects.
• Knowledge in GIS and BIM is an advantage.

Methodical Qualifications and Certifications:

• Very good knowledge of common enterprise architecture and modelling standards.
• TOGAF certification (preferably Practitioner).
• Certification in ArchiMate.
• Knowledge or certifications in BPMN and UML.
• Experience in conducting and moderating workshops as well as creating target group-oriented decision support materials.

Personal Competencies:

• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Ability to structure and visualise complex professional and organisational contexts clearly.
• High communication and moderation skills at different hierarchical levels.
• Independent, structured, and solution-oriented working style.
• Confident manner in dealing with different stakeholders.
• Ability to translate strategic requirements into concrete fields of action and actionable measures.

Language Skills:

• Very good German skills in spoken and written form.
• Good French skills are a great plus, especially for collaboration with multilingual organisational units.