Senior Business / Enterprise Architect

Company description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. 

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. 

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

Job description

We are in the middle of the digital revolution – this applies to all sectors. Technological innovation offers organizations enormous opportunities to deliver a new form of added value to their customers – but these opportunities require drastic changes. Organizations will have to operate more Agile and reinvent themselves. PA Consulting Group excels in designing the intelligent enterprise and in successfully supporting people and organizations through digital and Agile transitions.

Our (international) team consists of Architects, Designers, Coaches and Change Managers for digital and Agile transformations. We are growing and expanding, and to strengthen our Business Design Team in the Netherlands we are looking for (Senior) Business Designers / Enterprise (IT) Architects.

Our Business Design Services team is involved in challenging projects that require a broad spectrum of organizational design specialisms, from strategic business operating models, organizational design to technology strategy and the underlying IT architectures.

If you have a proven track record in leading (and selling) projects based on the following (one or more) expertise, we would like to talk to you:

• Enterprise Architectures: designing integrated architectures for business, applications, data, and infrastructure that support large-scale change programs within organizations.
• Enterprise IT Strategy: designing business and IT strategy and policy, adaptive to the ever-changing technological developments and responding to the concrete business applications thereof.
• Transformation planning: building combined business and technology roadmaps that support the planning and execution of organization-wide transformations.
• Target Operating Models: including business capability modelling, process redesign and establishing effective business and architecture governance methodologies.
• Technical and Operational Resilience: analysing end-to-end operations (people, process, technology) that help organizations protect their reputation and comply with regulations.

Qualifications

The role:

The main goal of this role is to work closely with our clients in innovative, integrated business, IT and cultural change processes, where you also play a leading role in managing stakeholders and in supporting and managing organizational change. As a Senior/ Principal Consultant you like to contribute to sales initiatives and Thought Leadership, with the aim of further expanding competencies and propositions that help to acquire new assignments and clients and to expand our existing clients and of course the growth of your own career at PA.

Personal and professional qualities:

• You have a solid (consulting) experience in working with clients and shaping solutions and the drive to bring projects to a successful conclusion and have an active network in Financial / Professional Services, Manufacturing and/or the public sector – at least 5 to 7 years is a must.
• High-level interlocutor in the field of business and technology architecture concepts, with in-depth experience in one or more of the above specialisms.
• Familiar with the latest standards in Customer Experience platforms, Integration platforms, Rapid Application Development frameworks, Digital Marketing / Automation and/or Customer and Data Analytics, and Data Driven ways of working.
• Has a clear vision of future trends in digital / technology and their impact on organizations.
• Skill to create, review and bring together end-to-end architecture within one or more business, application, data and infrastructure architecture domains, experience in designing and defining IT strategy and business architecture (with a background of MSc/MBA in Computer Science, Engineering or any other relevant study).
• Experience working with experienced client teams to quickly diagnose issues and develop, design and deliver solutions to address complex and challenging issues.
• Able to develop and provide a vision on projects, work streams and deliverables based on your expertise and translate this vision into concrete actions.
• Proven experience as an Enterprise, Domain and/or Solution Architect.
• Experience in modelling business processes.
• Experience as a Scrum Master.
• Strong intellectual and analytical skills, based on an academic background, but with well-developed planning and realization skills and the ability to switch between hands-on and hands-off – depending on the situation.
• Strong customer focus, ambitious, enterprising and collegial, a motivating personal and authentic style, team player.
• Above average presentation, negotiation and influencing skills, able to take the lead in organizational change, organizational sensitivity and bridge builder.
• Strong interpersonal skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills (in Dutch and English).
• Proactive attitude, clear ideas, willingness to work internationally.

Additional information

Benefits:

• 35 holidays per year (including statutory days)
• opportunity to buy additional flex holidays (maximum of 7)
• annual performance-based bonus
• pension plan (with fixed percentage personal contribution)
• possibility to buy shares in PA
• car / car allowance

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skillsets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment – one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results. We’re committed to recruiting, promoting, and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status. We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in The Netherlands. Unfortunately, your application will be automatically rejected if you do not have these rights.

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