Hybrid Enterprise Architect

at Forest Stewardship Council™

• Job title: Enterprise Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bonn, Germany

About the role

• Enterprise Architect responsible for designing and governing enterprise architecture at FSC. Leading initiatives for sustainability and technology strategy while collaborating internationally.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and continuously evolve the Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) and Enterprise Architecture practice including architecture governance, KPIs, committee structures, and regular reporting to technology leadership
• Define and maintain enterprise-wide architecture principles, guidelines, and standards, covering business, application, data, and infrastructure layers
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior management and technology leadership on architectural, digital, and technology strategy decisions
• Develop and maintain a future-oriented enterprise architecture roadmap, aligned with FSC’s corporate and IT strategy
• Translate strategic business requirements into cost-effective, scalable, and standardized architectural patterns to reduce fragmentation, and drive automation, self-service and re-usability
• Own and validate architecture blueprints (business, application, data, and technology), including EAM tools, modeling, integration and data services standards, and best practices
• Monitor market and emerging technology trends, proactively identifying opportunities and potential partners to evolve FSC’s platforms, tools, and development approaches
• Assess architectural maturity and technical debt across the organization and independently propose improvement as well as ground breaking initiatives
• Ensure architectural compliance and alignment across internal product design, engineering and analytics teams and external technology service providers and solution providers
• Represent the architecture function in cross-functional working groups and steering committees

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Engineering, or a comparable field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Strong expertise in Enterprise Architecture Management, including common frameworks, modern data architecture principles, and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF; certification highly desirable)
• Curiosity and a holistic understanding of business, application, data, and infrastructure architecture
• The ability to simplify complexity and communicate architectural concepts and their rationale clearly to diverse stakeholder groups
• Proven experience leading or contributing to complex IT initiatives, ideally in agile or scaled-agile environments (e.g. SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale)
• 8+ years of experience as an Enterprise Architect, including 4+ years in architecture or technical leadership roles (e.g., Chief Architect or similar)
• Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills, paired with strong leadership and communication capabilities
• A proactive, independent, and structured way of working in complex organizational environments

Benefits

• 30 vacation days yearly
• Regional transportation ticket
• Breakfast bars, coffee, tea
• Take part in learning lunches
• Celebrate together festivals from different cultures