Enterprise architect

Are you a positive-minded leader who is technical, analytical, result-oriented and to the point? Are you ready for top-notch international collaboration? Join TOPdesk as an enterprise architect and help us tackle our current and future architectural challenges.

• 32-40
• Medior / senior functie
• Hbo/wo
• € 4500-6000
• Delft, Tilburg

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What are you going to do as an enterprise architect?

Lead and coach a group of solution architects located in three countries: the Netherlands, Germany and Hungary. As we go through a big architectural transition from monolith to microservices, we need your enthusiasm, knowledge and experience to get our enterprise architecture team to a higher level and make TOPdesk’s architecture future-proof.

You understand customer and business needs, by keeping a close eye on the market, and company goals. Based on requirements and input, you and your fellow enterprise architect develop a vision and a clear target architecture that supports our business value. With your team, you’ll fill in the details of this target architecture, considering the research’s requirements and boundary conditions. You’ll also collaborate with an external consultancy bureau to help us mature our architecture capability in general.

You help product managers understand and integrate the architecture roadmap into their product roadmap. Together, you strike the appropriate balance between delivering functional components on the one hand and technology and architecture on the other.

Finally, you’ll explain and communicate the architecture to the rest of the company, particularly the Product & Development department that realizes your plans. You therefore have excellent communication skills and know how to talk with different (non) tech roles.

Where will you end up?

You’ll become part of our international enterprise architecture team in the Netherlands (Delft and Tilburg) and Germany (Kaiserslautern), but you can also choose to work from our Hungarian office in Budapest. The team now consists of three other enterprise architects spread over the Netherlands and Germany.

As explained above, you’ll lead a group of solution architects, and coach them in decision making, covering the various technical and functional domains and work closely with product managers and TOPdesk developers.

At TOPdesk, we encourage each other to keep on learning. For that, we provide a budget and extensive training opportunities.

Are you our new enterprise architect?

• You’re pragmatic, result-oriented and analytical.
• You’re an empathetic leader who enables people to make autonomous progress in their work.
• You’re independent and responsible.
• You’re an excellent communicator who’s fluent in English.
• You have multiple years of experience as an enterprise architect.
• You know your way around software architecture, cloud architecture and software development, and are therefore familiar with Java and/or Python, containerization (Kubernetes, Dockers, Puppet) and CI/CD pipelines.
• You have TOGAF or similar framework knowledge.
• You learn new stuff every day and encourage others to do the same.

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This is what you do it for

The nicest colleagues, a laptop, and a salary that grows with you. That is a no brainer, of course. But there’s more. Much more. In the Employee Handbook, you’ll discover all of our employment conditions.

10 to Grow

Use 10% of your work hours and a budget of 10% of your gross annual salary for personal development.

Paid parental leave

Receive your full salary for 9 weeks + 50% of your salary for 17 weeks. Why? Because parenting is hard work.

Volunteering

Simply do it during work time. Did we mention helping people is part of our DNA?

10 to Grow

Use 10% of your work hours and a budget of 10% of your gross annual salary for personal development.

Paid parental leave

Receive your full salary for 9 weeks + 50% of your salary for 17 weeks. Why? Because parenting is hard work.

Volunteering

Simply do it during work time. Did we mention helping people is part of our DNA?

All employment conditions

The job interview process. This is how we do it!

1 You apply

You send your CV and cover letter. Within the week, you'll hear if we're going to meet.

2 Who am I speaking to?

During a phone screening interview, we’ll check if our expectations are aligned. If so, we’ll get together for the first interview.

3 First interview: culture

You'll get to know TOPdesk, and we’ll get to know you! If you have the true TOPdesk spirit, we’ll meet again for a second interview.

4 Second interview: job details

Let’s find out if your experience and skills make you the perfect fit for the job and team.

5 Contract discussion

Everyone excited? Check! Time to draw up a contract and choose your start date.

6 Welcome to TOPdesk!

Once you’ve signed the contract, we’ll arrange everything for your first day. Let the adventure begin!

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Guillem Got-Bouillant

• +31 (0)15 270 09 00
• [email protected]

Got excited?

If so, send us your CV and a cover letter using the job application form.

In need of some inspiration for your cover letter? We are curious about how you empower people and deal with stakeholders. We’d also like to know what result-oriented work looks like for you. Finally, we want to know why you want to work in this role at TOPdesk.

Apply!