Lead Enterprise Architect

With your energy, it’s possible

Enexis, as one of the regional grid operators, is dedicated to drive the energy transition. We recognize the importance of digitalization, which is confirmed bij our digital vision. We have the ambition to equalize both our physical and digital within 9 years.   Enterprise Architecture is key for our organization to enable these crucial changes. We are committed to make significant strides in this area.

As part of our team, you will play a crucial role in aligning IT capabilities with business objectives across the organization, ensuring we continue to meet our strategic goals and deliver value to our customers and stakeholders.

You will work together with:
A diverse group of stakeholders across the organization to ensure alignment and drive our strategic initiatives forward. You will partner with our IT Management Team and Business Owners to synchronize IT strategy with business objectives, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.

In addition, you will collaborate with System Architects to ensure system designs and implementations align with our overarching architectural principles and strategies. Engaging with Business owners, Epic owners, and Product managers within our BVK (”Beheer- en VerbeterKeten”) teams, you will prioritize and align business capabilities and IT solutions. Coordination with Solution Managers will be essential to integrate business requirements with technical solutions, ensuring comprehensive and effective system development as part of our overall Business Architecture. Furthermore, you will liaise with Portfolio Managers to align architectural initiatives with portfolio management, ensuring strategic projects are prioritized and supported effectively.

Job Description

How you will tackle this challenge
As an Enterprise Architect at Enexis, you will gain an overarching perspective of our organization from a business capabilities standpoint, enabled by our Enterprise Architecture. You will guide our organization with reference architecture and architectural guidelines, ensuring we stay on course with our strategic goals.

Working within the energy sector’s business capabilities framework, which forms the foundation of our Business Architecture, you will organize Enterprise Architecture to effectively support our business processes. Your role will involve developing and implementing our target architecture by envisioning, communicating, and evolving our reference architecture. Acting at a strategic level, you will focus on long-term enterprise-wide alignment.

Furthermore, you will align the IT architecture with the business strategy, defining applications based on business needs and the external environment. You’ll establish architecture principles and provide strategic technical directions, guiding teams towards the target architecture in close collaboration with system architects and solution managers. Ensuring an enterprise-wide target architecture is in place to support strategic business cases, aligned with prioritized themes, will be one of your key responsibilities. Additionally, you will synchronize architecture across teams, maintaining consistency and coherence throughout the organization.

Your Role Includes:

• Develop and Implement Target Architecture: You will envision, communicate, and evolve our reference architecture. You Operate at a strategic level and focus on long-term enterprise-wide alignment.
• Align IT with Business Strategy: You define applications based on business needs and the external environment.
• Establish Architecture Principles: You set foundational guidelines for architectural decisions.
• Strategic Technical Directions: You provide guidance to teams towards the target architecture and collaborate closely with system architects and solution managers. In this role you ensure an enterprise-wide target architecture is in place to support strategic business cases, aligned with prioritized themes.
• Synchronize Architecture: you are responsible for harmonizing architecture across various business units (BVKs).

Next to the joint Enterprise Architecture responsibilities, as Lead Architect, you will play a role to make the next steps in our Architecture maturity, by:

• Leading functionally and mentoring the (Enterprise and System) Architecture team, fostering professional development and improving architecture practices

Positioning Enterprise Architecture in strategic setting stronger (which has a direct link with our portfolio management)

Job Requirements

This is how you approach it

• Demonstrated experience with capability thinking (business architecture)
• Demonstrated architecture leadership experiences in a organization with multiple business and IT lines, at least 10 years of experience within architecture
• Demonstrated ability to communicate to, liaise with and manage senior stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills, with proven ability to influence, engage and align people in cross-functional roles at all levels
• Demonstrated capabilities in defining and managing enterprise strategy and architecture
• Familiar with SAFE Agile .

Salary and Benefits

And of course, we also invest energy in you

Bij Enexis werk je in de voorhoede van een van de grootste uitdagingen van onze tijd: de energietransitie. Daarbij zorgen we goed voor je. Dat begint met een uitgebreid welkomstpakket en -programma om je collega’s te leren kennen. En met goede arbeidsvoorwaarden: 

• Salaris tussen € 6.486,- en € 9.265,- bruto per maand (op basis van 40 uur per week). Inclusief secundaire arbeidsvoorwaarden kan je salaris oplopen tot € 11.924,- bruto per maand. 

• Bijdrage van 70% aan je ABP Keuzepensioen. 

• Persoonlijk budget van 10% en een 13e maand van 10,7% van je bruto jaarsalaris. Deze kun je flexibel inzetten of maandelijks of jaarlijks laten uitbetalen. 

• 24,5 vakantiedagen bij een fulltime dienstverband. Meer oplaadtijd nodig? Met je persoonlijk budget en 13e maand koop je tot wel 35,5 extra verlofdagen.  

• Mogelijkheden om thuis te werken, inclusief een door ons ingerichte thuiswerkplek en een vergoeding van € 2,35 per dag.  

• Laptop of tablet en telefoon die je ook privé mag gebruiken. 

• [Optioneel voor monteurs en uitvoerders] Eigen bedrijfsauto met alle benodigde materialen. Voor je koffie of lunch to go krijg je een vergoeding van € 80,- per maand. 

• Reiskostenvergoeding en een eersteklas ov-abonnement voor zakelijk gebruik. 

• Vitaliteitsbudget van € 500,- voor bijvoorbeeld een sportabonnement. 

• Ruimte om te groeien met ons interne ontwikkelplatform of externe opleidingen en trainingen.  

Lees meer over onze arbeidsvoorwaarden.

Work as Lead Enterprise Architect on the energy network of tomorrow

Apply via the button at the bottom of this page. You will receive a response within two weeks. Do you have questions about the position? Then contact Mirja den Reijer, Corporate Recruiter IT, via Mirja.den.reijer@enexis.nl or +31 6 21508667.

Good to know

After your application, you will receive an email with more information about the procedure. Usually, it consists of two interviews: a first (online) interview with the manager and recruiter, and a second interview with your future colleagues on-site.

A screening is part of the application process. This may include an assessment, requesting references, and a Certificate of Conduct (VOG). You will receive more information about this during the procedure.