Enterprise Architect (m-f-d)

The Scope

At Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) technology plays a critical role in enabling transparency trust and impact across global forest supply chains. We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect who combines deep architectural expertise with a genuine passion for sustainability and purpose-driven work.

You will operate at the heart of FSCs digital transformation establishing designing and governing our future state enterprise-wide architecture to support our certification systems global collaboration and long-term data analytics and technology strategy. Working in a multinational mission-driven environment you will provide leadership and influence both strategic and operational decisions while future-proofing FSCs technology landscape while ensuring that we take advantage of shifts in the technology landscape driven by AI and related advancements.

If you enjoy aligning enterprise architecture with business needs shaping complex systems advising senior business and technology stakeholders and building scalable secure architectures while maintaining high levels of performance governance and compliance to make a real-world difference - this role will be a perfect fit for you.

Main Roles & Responsibilities

As our Enterprise Architect you will :

• Design implement and continuously evolve the Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) and Enterprise Architecture practiceincluding architecture governance KPIs committee structures and regular reporting to technology leadership
• Define and maintain enterprise-wide architecture principles guidelines and standards covering business application data and infrastructure layers
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior management and technology leadership on architectural digital and technology strategy decisions
• Develop and maintain a future-oriented enterprise architecture roadmap aligned with FSCs corporate and IT strategy
• Translate strategic business requirements into cost-effective scalable and standardized architectural patterns to reduce fragmentation and drive automation self-service and re-usability
• Own and validate architecture blueprints (business application data and technology) including EAM tools modeling integration and data services standards and best practices
• Monitor market and emerging technology trends proactively identifying opportunities and potential partners to evolve FSCs platforms tools and development approaches
• Assess architectural maturity and technical debt across the organization and independently propose improvement as well as ground breaking initiatives
• Ensure architectural compliance and alignment across internal product design engineering and analytics teams and external technology service providers and solution providers
• Represent the architecture function in cross-functional working groups and steering committees

Your profile

To succeed in this role you bring :

Why us

The Fine Print

Location : Bonn Germany.

Working Hours : Full time - 40 hours per week.

Duration of Employment : Temporary contract 2 years (extension possible subject to satisfactory performance).

Starting Date : As soon as possible.

Travel : Some travel may be required.

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About us

Welcome to FSC!

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a globally recognized non-profit organization at the forefront of promoting sustainable forestry. With over 150 million hectares of certified forests and a trusted reputation among NGOs consumers and businesses FSC is leading the way in ensuring the long-term health and resilience of the worlds forests.

Required Experience :

Staff IC

Key Skills

SAP BusinessObjects,Enterprise Architecture,Hybris,SAP HANA,SAP,TOGAF,Solution Architecture,Cloud Architecture,SAP BW 4HANA,Salesforce,SAP S / 4HANA,SAP ERP

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1