Senior Enterprise Architect (IT)

In order to be accepted, the proposed application must fully meet the following minimum requirements:

• The applicant must have the minimum skills and experience required (roles/skills/languages);
• The NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) annexed to this application must be completed and signed by the applicant him/herself. 

Mission: Senior Enterprise (IT) Architect

Start: 11/03/2024

End: 31/12/2024

Full Time

Min. Duration: 10 months 

Who are we? 

With a network of more than 9.794 employees, 1.646 notaries spread over 1,126 offices in Belgium, we provide tailor-made advice on particularly complex legal issues and support notary offices in their day-to-day operations in: legal advice, office management, IT solutions, training and information for the general public.

What Sets Us Apart:

Our uniqueness lies in the distinctive nature of the notarial profession and its legal framework, presenting us with ongoing and constant and complex challenges we face every day. The inclusion of data privacy, information integrity and security aspects add an extra layer of complexity to these challenges.

What is your mission?

As an Enterprise IT Architect:

You help and support the IT department and all teams in delivering qualitative digital products and services, aligned to corporate & IT objectives, standards and principles.

You make the enterprise IT architectural vision tangible and applicable, and clarify the purpose and value of models, standards and patterns, and support the application & implementation thereof.

Together with the solution architects, you research and generate architectural options for new features, balancing emerging and intentional architecture.

You support business case creation, or draft them myself for transversal IT topics. You contributeto the quality of business cases drafted e.g. by making sure all relevant options are clearly described, all necessary angles are investigated to allow decision taking by management. Isupport the presentation of business cases to the different governance bodies.

You ensure that new knowledge and insights are also brought back to the IT architecture chapter so that knowledge can be scaled up.

Being part of the department of IT Division you play a vital role in ensuring strong, standardized, secure and efficient solutions for our clients and users.

What is your impact?

• Key activities & results

  • Refine the Enterprise Architecture strategy
  • Evangelizing the architecture vision
  • Create (IT) architectural options
  • Help prioritize and sequence program level activities
  • Create trade-off analyses
  • Create architectural guardrails & enablers
  • Support teams in achieving quality and value
  • Communicate architectural knowledge
  • program level risks
  • Enable cross-disciplinary communication
  • Support the product life cycle activities
  • Exemplify the cultural change

• Governance

  A brief description of the various governance instruments & meetings in which the Enterprise IT Architect must participate, a summary of his or her role therein:

  1. Portfolio & Planning

  • Portfolio & investment planning:
    • Create or actively contribute to the shaping of enabler epics.
    • Identify architectural needs for the business epics.
    • Contribute to keep the short and longer term IT roadmap in sync with reality and the strategic ambitions. 

  2. Governance

  • Architecture Peer Review & Coaching:
    • Actively request and offer peer reviews.
    • Offer advice and coach solution architects.
  • Architecture Review Board
    • Lead the Architecture Review Board together with the Lead Solution Architect.
    • Support business case drafting by solution architects.
    • Actively review business cases presented and make sure they are ‘strategic fits’.
    • Measure the effectiveness of architectural decisions.
    • Help to shape the optimal architectural runway (transversal) by identifying the right initiatives.
  • IT Management Board
    • Actively communicate & defend the Enterprise Architectural vision.
    • Help to shape the optimal architectural runway (transversal) by identifying the right initiatives.
    • Challenge IT management
  • Architecture Governance Board
    • Actively prepare business cases, with a substantial impact, for alignment on the architecture governance board.
    • Explain in laymen’s terms complex technical cases to avoid the ‘black box’ syndrome 

3. Key deliverables:

Following deliverables can be considered being part of the Enterprise IT Architecture role: 

• • Models and views to assess the current state ofarchitecture against the target vision,
     to align current and future state.
  • Solution or product target state and roadmap, aligned version of the target business & technology architecture and the optimal sequence in which changes are to be realized.
    

• • Business Cases, support in developing digital solution or product business cases.
    
  • Architecture IT requirements, requirements from an cluster architecture towards the organization to optimally realize the target state.
    
  • Architectural IT options, the variousarchitectural options (or scenarios) to move from today architecture towards the target state.
    
  • Architectural trade-offs, what are the optimal architecture options (or scenarios) in the light of the context and the ambitions of the organization. 
  • Architecture guardrails & architectural building blocks, typically models, patterns, standards or reference architectures, or other that guide the teams towards the desired outcome.
  • Technical advice, support the teams in realizing the intentional architecture.
  • Technology radar, develop a radar that highlights new and upcoming technologies that potentially have an impact on the business of Fednot.

What qualifications are we looking for?

• (Visual) Communication
  • Takes every opportunity to communicate broadly and specifically on the target vision and architecture.
  • Presenting complex matters in a very comprehensible way while making it relevant to the stakeholders.
• Negotiation & alignment
  • Create win-win situations in architectural decisions and trade-offs.
• Stakeholder management
  • Identify the needs and concerns of the key stakeholders.
  • Convert the stakeholders’ concerns into opportunities.
  • Aligning the product / solution vision with the capabilities of the business & IT organization.
• Situational consciousness
  • Being able to adapt to what is possible and relevant in context of the organization.
  • Always being able to make an estimate in function of where we are today and where we want to land strategically.
• Coaching & mentoring
  • Coaching the architects in making architectural decisions.
  • Mentoring the architects  in acquiring the necessary competences and insights.
• Agile Architecting
  • Is an example in lean-agile leadership and tries to improve continuously.
• Strategy & business models
  • Being able to convert the strategic ambitions and themes into an architectural vision.
  • Being able to disseminate the Enterprise architectural vision in the organization.
  • Understands the culture of the organization and makes appropriate suggestions.
• Systems thinking
  • Look at everything from a holistic point of view (business & IT) and try to incorporate the needs and concerns of the clusters, IT and organization.
• Value & risk management
  • Understands what creates valueand what repr esents a real risk to the organization.
• Lean business case
  • Being able to design lean business case including hypotheses and risks for epic enablers.
• Solution design / engineering
  • Enabling the solutions agile teams to make architectural decisions.
• Trade-off analysis
  • Being able to make architectural choices with relevant trade-offs such as strategy, functionality, technicality, financial, organization and culture.
• A very good knowledge of Dutch, French, and English.

Where are you going to work…

1000 Brussels & Homeworking: 40% in the office + 60% homeworking

Timing

• Start date: 11/03/2024
• End date: 31/12/2024 
• Interview process: 2 rounds
  • 1st round of 1 hour with the HR (via Teams) – Please note that only the presence of the candidate is accepted
  • 2nd round of 1 hour for a more technical interview with the N+1 and tech. questions (interview onsite) – Please note that only the presence of the candidate is accepted

ProUnity is the single point of contact for this assignment. If you have any questions, you may contact Charlotte Dejonckheere, Client Satisfaction Manager, per email charlotte.dejonckheere@pro-unity.com.