Enterprise Architect

As a recruitment company, DCG understands that every business is powered by experienced professionals. Our management style and partnership approach enable us to meet your needs and provide continuous support. Due to our ongoing growth and the large number of recruitment projects we undertake for our partners, we are currently looking for:

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Support business domains in gathering requirements, scoping, and high-level design across a large application landscape (4,500 applications, including 800 core systems) and produce application and integration impact assessments, risk/benefit analyses, and architectural recommendations

• Ensure smooth handover to solution architect teams for detailed design and implementation

• Drive transformation initiatives, governance, and risk management, aligning teams with enterprise roadmaps and strategic objectives, and deliver architecture roadmaps and ARB governance reports

• Monitor business needs and ensure adherence to architectural directives and decisions

• Maintain alignment between business objectives and technical solutions

• Document and maintain the enterprise architecture repository (e.g., HOPEX), including application landscapes, interdependencies, business capabilities, system diagrams, and application maps

• Conduct impact analyses, pre-studies, and provide architectural recommendations to stakeholders

• Define target architectures, roadmaps, and capability/system/domain maps

• Lead and structure architecture governance (ARB) with IT and business stakeholders

• Share clear and concise updates on architectural activities, progress, and domain maturity

• Challenge and enhance existing processes, recommend methodological improvements, promote best practices, and deliver optimized processes and consolidated best practices

• Facilitate cross-team coordination and contribute to overall optimization of the architecture function

Requirements:

• Experienced Enterprise Architect with a proven track record in large-scale, complex environments

• Strong communication skills in English

• Solid understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and tools, ideally HOPEX

• Ability to analyse, map, and design target architectures aligned with business objectives

• Excellent governance and stakeholder management skills, able to engage both business and IT audiences

• Analytical mindset, strategic vision, and ability to challenge and influence decisions

• Willingness for long-term commitment and occasional travel to France

Nice to have:

• Certifications in SAFe, TOGAF, or ArchiMate are highly valued

• Knowledge of French

Offer:

• Private medical care

• Co-financing for the sports card

• Constant support of dedicated consultant

• Employee referral program