Senior IT Architect

Role overview

As a Senior IT Architect, you will shape and guide the architecture that supports the growth, digitalisation and operational excellence of onshore and offshore wind operations. You will work with business stakeholders, project teams, enterprise and solution architects, and domain experts to develop scalable, future-proof solutions aligned with strategic objectives and enterprise standards.

You will provide architectural leadership across business, application, data, integration and technology domains, supporting both project delivery and the development of long-term capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and support architecture activities for strategic initiatives and transformation programmes.
• Assess business initiatives from an architectural perspective and ensure alignment with enterprise principles and target states.
• Provide guidance on IT strategy, integration and data architecture, data management, digitalisation, innovation, cloud adoption, platform strategy and IT/OT integration.
• Develop target architectures, roadmaps, solution overviews, architecture decision records and governance artefacts.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, standardisation and technology optimisation with business and IT stakeholders.
• Support architecture governance, including reviews, assessments and decision-making forums.
• Facilitate architecture workshops and discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Promote architecture best practices and contribute to the development of architectural capabilities.
• Maintain a broad understanding of relevant technologies and development tools, follow market trends, and bring new knowledge to the organisation.
• Help ensure application roadmaps and architecture standards support future business needs, performance, capacity and scalability.

What you bring

• Approximately 5–10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Solution Architecture or a similar senior architectural role.
• Experience in an asset-intensive industry, such as energy, utilities, renewables, manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation or telecommunications.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and methods, such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, SAFe or Zachman.
• Experience with integration architecture and API-based ecosystems, data platforms and governance, cloud and hybrid architectures, digital transformation, business capability modelling and application portfolio management.
• Experience working in large, complex international organisations.
• Ability to translate complex technical and architectural topics into clear business recommendations for management and senior stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across organisational boundaries.

Advantageous experience

• Renewable energy, utilities, wind power, offshore operations or energy trading.
• IT/OT architecture and operational technology environments.
• Industrial IoT, telemetry, SCADA and real-time operational data platforms.
• Large-scale growth, acquisition or transformation programmes.
• Data-driven operating models and advanced analytics.

Personal qualities

• Strategic and business-oriented.
• Proactive and self-managing.
• Skilled at engaging stakeholders and building relationships.
• Comfortable challenging existing approaches and driving innovation.
• Able to balance long-term architectural direction with practical project delivery needs.

Language and location

Languages: English is required. Dutch, German or Danish is an advantage.

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands, with hybrid working.