Adres Do you have experience with Enterprise Architecture? Do you have a "product mindset" to help shape the Nedap Tech Platform? And do you have demonstrated leadership abilities to take the lead? We are looking for a (Lead) Enterprise Architect to grow the Architecture Team within Nedap Tech Platform.
Tech Platform and your team
The Nedap Tech Platform was launched in February and started out with three teams: Infrastructure (providing infrastructure as a product to the business units), Runtime (providing managed services and expert consultancy focused on observability), and Architecture. Later on, teams focusing on development enablement, quality, and security & compliance will be added.
The Architecture Team is a team of experienced architects who provide expert consultancy. They enable Nedap business units and their teams to make better architecture decisions that support short term goals as well as facilitate long term sustainable development. We facilitate the business units in establishing and evolving an appropriate architecture, development process and development organisation ("how") that matches the strategy ("why"), functional requirements ("what"), and quality requirements ("how well").
The Architecture Team engages with development teams in different domains, e.g. by performing architecture walkthroughs or advising them on specific architectural questions. For this we will collaborate with the teams and their management. In this way, the Architecture Team will also be the eyes & ears of the Nedap Tech Platform, providing input for the other teams, e.g. insights for the Infrastructure Team in scalability and availability needs. The Architecture Team will also collaborate with the other Nedap Tech Platform teams, e.g. help shape the infrastructure platform as a product.
Your responsibilities as an Enterprise Architect
Tech Platform and your team
The Nedap Tech Platform was launched in February and started out with three teams: Infrastructure (providing infrastructure as a product to the business units), Runtime (providing managed services and expert consultancy focused on observability), and Architecture. Later on, teams focusing on development enablement, quality, and security & compliance will be added.
The Architecture Team is a team of experienced architects who provide expert consultancy. They enable Nedap business units and their teams to make better architecture decisions that support short term goals as well as facilitate long term sustainable development. We facilitate the business units in establishing and evolving an appropriate architecture, development process and development organisation ("how") that matches the strategy ("why"), functional requirements ("what"), and quality requirements ("how well").
The Architecture Team engages with development teams in different domains, e.g. by performing architecture walkthroughs or advising them on specific architectural questions. For this we will collaborate with the teams and their management. In this way, the Architecture Team will also be the eyes & ears of the Nedap Tech Platform, providing input for the other teams, e.g. insights for the Infrastructure Team in scalability and availability needs. The Architecture Team will also collaborate with the other Nedap Tech Platform teams, e.g. help shape the infrastructure platform as a product.
Your responsibilities as an Enterprise Architect
- Bridge the gap between infrastructure, application architecture, business needs and strategy.
- Support teams in translating business unit strategy and objectives to architecture vision and sustainable software solutions.
- Zoom out understanding business requirements, risks, infrastructure, and the application landscape. Facilitate teams in understanding the bigger picture.
- Support teams in identifying risks and advise them on balancing trade-offs between business risks, scalability, availability, robustness, predictability.
- Review existing business processes, technology, and way of working and how these align with the need for business scalability.
- Help teams reflect about how the current system landscape is partitioned in applications or services and what improvements are possible, e.g. by splitting large applications.
- Help teams gain insights in their way of working, development process & CI/CD, and how to improve, e.g. by organising architecture walkthroughs.
- Facilitate collaborative architecture design sessions.
- Identify and harvest patterns and guidelines from development teams. Promote standards where appropriate.
- Provide input for the vision and strategy of the Nedap Tech Platform and help translate this back to concrete activities towards teams.
- Share knowledge e.g. on patterns and guidelines, by giving presentations and workshops.
- Contribute to the Nedap Tech Academy by giving internal courses.
