Business/Area Architect

Are you the sparring partner for business and IT leaders to bring strategy into practice by creating, embedding, and realizing business and technology architecture taking long term in- and external developments into account? Are you the business architect who motivates, inspires and facilitates a team of solution architects and wants to work closely with the business stakeholders on transforming the business? Are you the person who really understands the business processes and defines the best solution for their problems in the contract management and finance area?

In Europe we have started a large transformation program to optimize and grow our business. Contract management and finance are key transformation topics in this journey. The transformation is both a business and IT transformation, as well as an optimization of the way of working towards more Agility and better time to market.

You will be part of the architecture team in Europe and guide the solution architects in their day-to-day work. Together with the area lead and IT delivery lead you form the area triangle that drives the strategic agenda of the area.

You are

• A business architect with over 10 years of experience in the international Financial Services Industry.
• A conceptual thinker who continuously balances long term strategic direction with short term needs. You are result driven and able to translate business strategy into business and technology architecture.
• An excellent communicator in speech and writing who can easily interact on C-1 level in the company, able to convey complex process and IT subjects in executive terminology.
• An out of the box thinker who can understand business problems and together with a team can define the best solution for the problem.
• An eager person who really wants to understand how the business works and who develops ways to improve the processes and IT solutions.
• Pragmatic during implementation of the architecture design when necessary to drive change forward while keeping long term objectives into account.
• Comfortable in working in an Agile delivery model enabling fast delivery of the investment portfolio continuously ensuring strategy objectives are achieved as well.
• A networker, sensitive to the business domain and able to influence a divers stakeholder community. You are the one who can help your stakeholders to prioritize the demand for change.
• A coach for your peers in architecture and a mediator for stakeholders with different interests in terms of investment priorities.

Find out more here about how you can unleash your full potential at DLL

Day to day:

• Participate in the analysis and evaluation of the long-term strategic and operating planning of Europe to ensure that the Architecture objectives are consistent with the enterprise’s long-term business objectives.
• Develop, maintain, and implement the Target State Architecture for Europe and specifically for the contract management and finance area.
• Develop and maintain the Portfolio Roadmap.
• Chair the Area Architecture syncs.
• Oversees the architecture work in your area, divides the work together with the team and manages expectations with business stakeholders.
• Guide the creation of Solution Visions when new solutions enter the European landscape.
• Sponsor and facilitate innovative projects, to prove the impact in terms of opportunities or threats for Group EU Management.
• Motivate, inspire, and facilitate a team of Solution Architects securing architecture alignment in investment portfolios and program roadmaps.
• Execute architecture governance by enforcing the architecture process in the organization to make and capture decisions made regarding architecture.
• Govern the architecture repository to ensure the European architecture meets the DLL ArchiMate Standards and actively coach Solution Architects on the use of ArchiMate.
• Ensure that the respective business, application, information and technology perspectives are in line with the organization’s technology and governance strategies, policies and standards.
• Support the creation of Architecture Standards that clearly define the architecture framework for the Solution Architects to achieve re-use, economies of scale and compliance. Actively communicate these standards and continuously improve them to meet market best practice and customer needs.

All members enjoy

• Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity.
• Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities.
• Flexible hours with possibility to work from home
• Career development opportunities: online learning, member development programs.
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Essentials:

• Over 10 years of experience in Enterprise, Lead or senior Solution Architecture, preferably in the financial industry.
• University level Education (MSc).
• Excellent communication in speech and writing in English.
• Certified for TOGAF © and ArchiMate ©.
• Thorough understanding of financial industry in general.
• Experience in business and IT strategy development.

Choose wellbeing

DLL’s wellbeing ambition is to educate, equip and empower members to build connections, manage their mental, emotional, physical and financial wellness and maintain balance between work and the other priorities that make up their lives.

Our four wellbeing categories are as follows:

• Connection – Build meaningful connections with other DLL members
• Health – Manage mental, emotional and physical health
• Finance – Provide learning opportunities to help members achieve personal financial health
• Lifestyle – Maintain balance between work and life priorities

These are the things that matter to our members and the wellbeing of our members matters to DLL

Settling in

At DLL, we are many things. We are team members, family members, community member. We are members of society, members of different cultures and nationalities. Members of change. We each have different beliefs, different passions, different viewpoints, talents and interests. We come from different backgrounds, cultures, nationalities and histories.

But for all of our differences, we share one thing in common: each of us are members of DLL.

Our company was founded in the Netherlands. But today we are truly a multinational business. Our unique culture is rooted in higher collaboration, less hierarchy and an honest directness that enable us to integrate, ideate and innovate across country lines.

Many companies say they are European, American, Asian or Australian, at DLL we are all these places and more.

We are a cross-culture collaborative – an interconnected network – that comes together every single day with one goal in mind: Partnering for a better world.

Good to know:

• Deadline for application: May 31st (Due to high volume of applications this requisition may close prior to posted close date)
• The selection process may involve an assessment.
• Applications via email will not be reviewed. Please apply online via our career website.
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• DLL’s referral program applies
• For more information, please contact our Talent acquisition partner Omnia Hassan via omnia.hassan@dllgroup.com

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