(Senior) Enterprise Architect (m/f/d)

Your Mission

As Enterprise Architect, you provide strategic architectural leadership to drive the digital transformation of the Klöckner & Co Group.

You will be responsible for shaping and standardizing the IT architecture across the Group, with a focus on enhancing system interoperability, scalability, and security.

This role offers the opportunity to apply your expertise to a variety of transformative projects, collaborating with global stakeholders to ensure sustainable and agile solutions.

Your Role

Enterprise Architecture Function :

• Actively participate in IT governance and contribute to the development of the IT strategy, procedures, and processes
• Scope incoming demands (major projects, minor changes) in collaboration with IT colleagues and senior business stakeholders
• Reorganize architecture information while introducing and maintaining LeanIX as the global architecture repository

Strategic and Tactical Development of the IT landscape :

• Collaborate with IT department heads to develop the IT application landscape, formulate technology visions, roadmaps, and work packages based on the business strategy
• Establish and manage the process of application rationalization for internal solutions and M&A activities, including coordination and tracking of rationalization efforts
• Act as the central contact for enterprise and solution architectural questions and provide project guidance
• Deliver architecture analysis and reports to various stakeholders, including senior management, and support their implementation
• Support the evaluation and selection of vendor(s) and manage vendor relationships strategically to ensure that third-party solutions not only meet technical standards, but also contribute to the organization’s goals for innovation and cost-effectiveness

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) :

Take over responsibility in M&A projects (acquisitions and divestitures), identify architectural baselines, understand business visions, develop architectural scenarios, create technology roadmaps and drive decisions with stakeholders

Leadership Role :

Serve as an active member of the leadership team within the IT application department

Your Profile and Qualifications

• University degree in IT, informatics, economics or comparable degree
• At least five years of experience in the field of enterprise architecture
• Certifications in e.g., TOGAF are a plus
• Familiarity with the architecture around ERP systems, preferably SAP and others
• Experience in SAP LeanIX is an advantage
• Experience in conducting workshops and training sessions as well as working with traditional and agile project management methods
• Excellent communication skills, proven leadership and ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• Ability to balance big-picture thinking with attention to detail
• Very good written and spoken German and English skills

Your Work Atmosphere and Perspectives

• Receive a competitive compensation package and great benefits such as a discounted Urban Sports membership, subsidy to Deutschland ticket, attractive offers in the Klöckner Corporate Benefits advantage portal, etc.
• Work in an international, dynamic, and diverse team with a strong team spirit and a hands-on mentality that is digitalizing a traditional industry
• Benefit from a wide range of individual training, courses, and coaching for optimal personal development and enhance your language skills in our German and English courses
• Work in a modern, hybrid environment and tailor your working hours (full-time 38.5 hours) flexibly with flextime
• Enjoy 30 days of well-deserved vacation, accompanied by additional contractual money
• Meet your colleagues in a modern office in Düsseldorf (close to the airport) or Berlin

About us

Klöckner & Co is one of the world's largest producer-independent steel and metal distributors and one of the leading steel service companies.

Klöckner & Co serves over 90,000 customers through its distribution and service network with around 160 locations in 13 countries.

By expanding its portfolio of CO2-reduced materials, services and logistics under the new umbrella brand Nexigen®, the company is underscoring its role as a pioneer of a sustainable steel industry.

At the same time, as a pioneer of digital transformation in the steel industry, Klöckner & Co has set itself the goal of digitizing and largely automating its supply and service chain.

In this way, the company aims to become the leading one-stop store for steel, other materials, equipment and processing services in Europe and America.

In our Digital Hub kloeckner.i GmbH, we are bundling all projects geared to this under one roof. With currently 150 employees, we work hybrid at the Berlin and Duisburg sites.