Enterprise Architect (m/f/d) Strategic Domains (Cloud-Architect)

You will work at the interface of business strategy, IT roadmap and transformation portfolio, creating transparency, direction and architectural guidance for complex cross-domain topics.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Shaping and evolving enterprise architecture practices across strategically relevant domains, ensuring alignment with business priorities, IT strategy and long-term transformation goals.
• Developing capability- and location-spanning reference architectures and strategic target architectures that provide clear orientation for future business and IT decisions.
• Supporting portfolio and investment decisions with architectural impact assessments, transparency and pragmatic recommendations.
• Coaching business and IT stakeholders in top-down architecture planning and helping translate strategic objectives into clear architectural priorities and roadmaps.
• Contributing to the further development of architecture governance, principles, standards and guardrails to enable consistent and value-driven architecture decisions across central and local domains.
• Moderating architecture discussions and helping stakeholders find viable solutions that balance business needs, technological options and economic considerations.
• Building strong partnerships with business functions, IT teams, domain experts and architects across the organization.
• Advising business and IT teams on architectural best practices while ensuring alignment with defined Enterprise Architecture standards and guidelines.

Your profile:

• Several years of experience in enterprise architecture, business architecture, domain architecture, IT strategy or a comparable role in a complex, preferably international organization.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture methods, target architecture development, architecture governance, principles and standards.
• Ability to translate business strategies and domain-specific requirements into clear, pragmatic architectural guidance without getting lost in unnecessary technical detail.
• Good understanding of current technological trends, innovations and state-of-the-art solutions, as well as their relevance for business transformation.
• Experience in facilitating architecture decisions and aligning different stakeholder perspectives across business, IT and architecture.
• A hands-on architecture driven mindset and the motivation to actively support architecture concepts from early idea to practical implementation together with business and IT teams.
• Strong communication, moderation and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex architectural topics clearly and convincingly to different audiences.
• Fluent German and English skills. - Certifications such as TOGAF or equivalent qualifications are an advantage. - You enjoy working independently, taking ownership and contributing as a motivated team player who wants to make a visible difference.

What you can look forward to:

• role with real impact: you will help shape strategic domains and contribute to the future direction of Enterprise Architecture within an international group.
• A broad variety of exciting topics across business and IT, with the opportunity to work across organizational boundaries.
• The chance to create transparency, simplify complexity and enable better decisions in a dynamic transformation environment.
• A collaborative team culture where ownership, curiosity and pragmatic thinking are highly valued.
• The opportunity to act as a trusted advisor and enabler for business and IT stakeholders.

What we offer:

• Strong salary package - attractive base salary plus bonus and support for private pension plan
• Modern working time arrangements - time sovereignty without time recording, focus on results-oriented work
• Regular time off - 30 days annual leave plus up to 6 additional days off (company closures on bridge days and between years), special leave for specialoccasions, life phase account for paid time off (e.g. sabbatical, earlier retirement)
• Additional benefits - subsidized public transport, discounts in many (online) stores, company medical service with comprehensive preventive medical check-ups, sports facilities and employee canteen with freshly prepared meals every da
• Sustainability and social commitment - sustainability as part of the corporate strategy and targeted support for initiatives in the areas of education, family and science through our own foundations

As Enterprise Architect – Strategic Domains (m/f/d), you will help shape the future Enterprise Architecture practice within the Heraeus Group, with a particular focus on strategically important business and IT domains.