Enterprise Architect

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds

Role description:

Arcadis is accelerating its shift to a digital-first company. Were looking for a Global Enterprise Architect to shape our technology landscape align it tightly to business strategy and turn ideas into measurable outcomes. Youll lead the Architecture Office partner with senior business leaders worldwide and coach a community of architects to deliver a modern secure and scalable platform for growth.

Role accountabilities:

Set direction and connect strategy to execution

• Build a clear business-aligned technology strategy and multiyear roadmap.
• Translate strategy into pragmatic timephased initiatives with defined outcomes owners and metrics.
• Run scenario planning and trend analysis to inform investment decisions (e.g. scale performance cost security).
• Make complex topics simpleuse visual storytelling to show future state and the path to get there.

Lead enterprise architecture and standards

• Define minimal viable architecture (principles reference patterns guardrails) that enable autonomy with clear boundaries.
• Establish decision rights and governance that are fast lightweight and valuefocused.
• Maintain a living view of current and target state across business data application and technology domains.
• Identify gaps and risks; recommend options with tradeoffs.
• Have a pragmatic hands-off working method

Orchestrate portfolio and modernization

• Build and maintain an enterprise roadmap across products platforms and capabilities.
• Drive portfolio rationalization and modernization (cloud data integration security) with clear value cases.
• Ensure delivery teams leverage shared platforms tools and patterns to accelerate speedtovalue.

Drive innovation with purpose

• Scan emerging technologies and market shifts; separate signal from noise.
• Run targeted pilots with clear success criteria; scale what works into steadystate.
• Anchor innovation in business outcomesnew revenue better client experience productivity and sustainability.

Build strong partnerships and a highperforming community

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders product owners and technology leads.
• Lead a collaborative community of architects; coach architects and product leaders to think and act architecturally.
• Engage external partners and vendors to extend capability and speed with clear accountability.

Elevate security compliance and resilience

• Bake security and privacy into architecture decisions (secure by design).
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards.
• Improve resilience (recovery continuity observability) as the architecture evolves.

What success looks like (first 1218 months)

• Clear strategy & roadmap: Businessaligned enterprise technology roadmap with funding priorities and sequencing.
• Guardrails in place: Lean principles standards and decision rights adopted across key domains (cloud integration data identity).
• Portfolio outcomes: Tangible reductions in complexity and cost (e.g. rationalized applications/platforms) and faster timetomarket.
• Modern platform foundations: Progress on cloud modernization API/microservices strategy eventing and data platform capabilities.
• Measurable improvement: Agreed set of metrics (e.g. reuse rate release frequency tech debt security posture) tracked and improved.
• Strong community: An engaged architecture community with clear roles working practices and development paths.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience across at least three domains: business information/data solution or technical architecture; plus solid delivery exposure.
• Proven track record leading largescale transformation across regions or business lines.
• Strong communicator who can influence at executive level and explain complex topics in plain language.
• Financial acumen: build value cases assess options and guide investment decisions.
• Practical governance: fast outcomeoriented decision forums; comfortable making tradeoffs.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure AWS) SaaS APIs microservices eventdriven architectures integration data/analytics and DevSecOps ways of working.
• Understanding of security privacy and compliance considerations for global enterprises.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with platforms common in design/engineering and geospatial ecosystems (e.g. Autodesk Bentley ESRI) and enterprise platforms (e.g. Oracle).
• Knowledge of EA tools and frameworks (e.g. ArchiMate TOGAF) and service operations frameworks (e.g. ITIL) applied pragmatically.
• Experience working in both projectcentric / professional services and productcentric operating models and with scaled agile environments.
• Background in information management lifecycle management and platform operations.

How you work

• Outcomefocused and pragmatic: You favor simple scalable solutions and can say no with clear rationale.
• Vendor and technologyneutral: You choose what best serves the business.
• Coach and multiplier: You grow people and communities of practice.
• Calm under pressure: You navigate ambiguity competing priorities and organizational complexity with professionalism.
• Inclusive and collaborative: You build shared understanding and bring people with you.

What we offer

• Impact at scale: Help shape a global platform used by thousands of colleagues and clients.
• Room to grow: Access to meaningful work learning and mobility across teams and geographies.
• Flexibility: We support different ways of working where role and team allow.
• Purpose: Contribute to sustainable outcomes for our clients communities and planet.

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.

Together we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.