Create a better future!

• Define and own the Enterprise Architecture (HEA) strategy (provides input to IT strategy), ensuring alignment with business objectives, digital transformation priorities, and long-term scalability.

• Lead strategic architecture initiatives and transformation programs, from concept through implementation, ensuring coherence across platforms, processes, and capabilities.

• Act as a strategic partner to senior business and IT leadership, providing architectural guidance, challenge, and decision support.

• Establish and govern architecture standards, principles, decision forums, and target-state designs, enabling consistency while allowing for business agility.

• Drive enterprise capability and technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business priorities and investment decisions.

• Support portfolio prioritization and trade-off decisions, providing architectural input to maximize value and manage complexity.

• Ensure effective collaboration and clear interfaces between strategic architecture and operational execution teams.

• Track progress and impact through architecture KPIs and business metrics, adjusting direction as needed to maximize value.

• Head a team of domain architects (5-10) who will develop technology roadmaps, advice on more concrete architectural questions in relation to their individual strategic platform responsibilities, etc

What you bring

EDUCATION, LANGUAGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 10  or more years of professional experience in enterprise-scale environments, including strategic planning, operating model design, and/or business analysis.

• Proven experience across multiple enterprise architecture disciplines, such as business, information, solution, or technical architecture, application development, integration/middleware, data management, or operations in complex, multi-tier environments.

• Experience working with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, influencing decisions at enterprise level.

• Experience in global and matrix organizations and in leading or contributing to large-scale transformation initiatives.

• Fluent English required; additional languages are a plus.

KNOWLEDGE & CAPABILITIES

• Business and technology ecosystems (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, SOA, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, data and analytics)

• Business, operating, and financial models, including cost-benefit analysis and risk management

• Enterprise architecture principles, EA and IT frameworks, IT service management, and SDLC

• Agile and lean methodologies, including enterprise-scale agile frameworks

• Information management practices, infrastructure & operations, and security architecture

• Knowledge on working in different industries, preferably one of them being similar to industrial manufacturing

Skills

• Strategic leadership and influence

• Consulting and stakeholder management

• Facilitation, negotiation, and collaboration

• Analytical, planning, and organizational skills

• Graphical modeling approaches, tools, and architecture repositories

• Clear written, verbal, and presentation communication skills

• Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.

• Capability to estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives and apply multiple solutions to business problems.

• Ability to create change, and have impact

• Ability to be pragmatic when needed, and stay firm if required as well (balancing act)

TRAVEL

• Occasional travel is expected but more intense during large transformation initiatives and M&As

As an equal opportunity employer, FLSmidth embraces diversity and equality by promoting an environment of inclusion. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply - the more diverse our employees are, the stronger our team is. In our commitment to equal opportunity and eliminating bias, we kindly request that you exclude personal information such as age, ethnicity, marital status, number of children, and photographs from your application materials.

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