Enterprise Architect

Are you the Enterprise Architect that guides Van Oord in our journey to become a process-based, data-driven, and digitally enabled company? Do you get energised by enabling our company domains in planning and realizing our future process, data, and technology landscapes?

Van Oord is an ambitious entrepreneurial organization. As one of our Enterprise Architects, you will play an important role in our purpose: “To create a better world for future generations by delivering Marine Ingenuity”.

Our information technology department supports our global organisation in successfully executing our projects by delivering shared and enabling platform capabilities, landscape planning, and ensuring continuity and cybersecurity of our services. We apply a pragmatic approach, keeping close relationships with business stakeholders to make sure we deliver what our customers need in a language that is familiar and understood.

Our business landscape is undergoing significant transformation in key areas of finance, supply chain, procurement, HR, fleet and asset management. Major goals to achieve are increased operational excellence, becoming fully data driven, and growing our digital capabilities around our processes and company ecosystem.

We are transforming our IT landscape to become mostly platform- and cloud-based, in support of data and digital initiatives – with new platforms being realized for data, integration and low-code. We are transforming our way of working to become more Agile and adopt a product centric mindset. We are proud of our knowledgeable and experienced IT staff, applying a no-nonsense approach when needed. There is never a boring moment - with lots of challenges and innovations, in a world where ‘constant change’ is the only constant.

Your Impact

As one of our Enterprise Architects, you are the custodian of our integral view on the enterprise process, systems, and data landscape. You support our business teams with insights, advice and direction on landscape planning, defining scope, and managing dependencies – advocating separation of concerns, mediating, moderating and avoiding unnecessary complexity. You stay connected to the real world; you know your academics but keep these available in the background.

You will have a strong role in further professionalizing our standards and planning processes – working together with business and information analysts, domain architects, project/program managers and various other business stakeholders in moving our landscape forward in a transparent and predictable way.

In preparation of ongoing and upcoming Business/IT initiatives, you will be working together in and across several business and platform domains: Corporate Functions, business units (Offshore Energy, Dredging & Infra), Survey, Engineering & Estimating, Ship Management, and the enabling IT organisation.

You have a background in architecture and/or senior business analysis, have experience in working with project-driven organisations, have a decent understanding of how finance processes operate and possess working knowledge of our business domain. You recognize and adapt to the needs of your environment.

Your responsibilities:

• Maintaining overview of our cross-company business systems and data landscape, and aligning this with our recently redefined E2E business process landscape
• Working with BU and domain business analysts to bring together our company business architecture – promoting reuse, modularity, orchestration, and separation of concerns; this to ensure a future-proof and scalable architecture.
• Guiding business change programs forward
• Offering advice and explanation on our goals and the bigger context
• Aligning different perspectives, moderating and mediating into a way forward
• Analysing and managing change dependencies
• Managing scope and facilitating decoupling from other activities, managing complexity
• Understanding and communicating change impact
• Aligning with adjacent programs and activities, managing overlap and enabling reuse
• Bringing forward ideas and opportunities in innovation, complexity reduction and/or cost savings
• Providing advice on talent management to improve our organisation’s business operations
• Guiding, maintaining and developing standards, guidelines, patterns, and frameworks
• Aligning with domain business analysts, systems analysts, and peer architects
• Guarding quality of high-level design

Your Workplace

You will be working from our head office in Rotterdam – with a splendid view on the beautiful Maas. You can start or end your working day at our own gym in the office. Of course there is room to work from home, while maintaining a healthy mix in working together as a team and with our stakeholders.

This position is available within the multi-disciplinary Enterprise Architecture team: Operating in a highly international enterprise environment, with members and stakeholders across the globe.

The Architecture team consists of 8 people, who are spread across EA and domain architecture. You will get a buddy to help you find your way into the company. You can learn a lot from your colleagues, and we value an open learning environment.

About You

To be successful within Van Oord in guiding our organisation forward, we believe you will need the knowledge and education as described below. If you do not exactly meet these criteria but still think you are a great match: Let us know, we are happy to let us become convinced of your qualities.

• A master’s degree or work level experience.
• At least 5 years of senior business analyst or business architect experience, and at least 2 years of tangible business architecture experience in an international environment
• Excellent presentation and influencing/negotiation skills
• Convincing based on knowledge, personality, and seniority - rather than relying on the role itself
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, but driving for a practical outcome (!)
• A natural willingness / eagerness to drive change
• Comfortable with creating visualizations, diagrams, and communication materials
• Thought leadership seniority and mentality
• Experienced in working in multi-disciplinary teams in a constantly changing environment
• Experience in a project-driven organisation is a plus
• Fluent in both Dutch and English.

We Offer

• A challenging position in which you will play an important role in the further development of the Offshore Energy Business Unit. You will have the opportunity to further develop this position within Van Oord and we offer you the freedom to further develop your personal competences.
• A salary that matches your responsibilities and experience
• Company car and home working allowance (€2.15 per day)
• 32 holidays (of which a maximum of 7 are collective)
• Variable bonus, partly dependent on company results
• Attractive pension scheme
• Option for collective health insurance (Van Oord pays for your supplementary package)
• Flexible home working arrangement; on a full-time basis, you can work from home 2 days a week
• Extensive development opportunities, including a comprehensive online academy via Goodhabitz
• Communities to join, such as Young Van Oord, Van Oord Women, and the Van Oord staff association
• Various events and sports activities, such as skiing, sailing weekends, cycling, and motorcycling

'Show what you can do and where your ambition lies, and you’ll get every opportunity to act on it. That’s something I’m proud of!' Renske Category Manager Engineering