Lead Enterprise Architect (m/f/d)

Our Partner is an international non-profit organization (80%+ of revenue is self-generated ) operates a globally recognized certification and governance system with a strong focus on transparency, collaboration, and responsible practices.

With several hundred employees worldwide, a broad global network, and tens of thousands of stakeholders and partners, the organization is considered one of the leading players in its field. It functions as a member-led, multi-stakeholder system that balances diverse interests and perspectives.

The Scope

Within this organization, technology plays a critical role in enabling transparency, trust, and measurable impact across complex global operations. We are looking for an experienced Lead Enterprise Architect (m/f/f) who combines deep architectural expertise with a genuine passion for purpose-driven work.

You will operate at the center of an ongoing digital transformation – establishing, designing, and governing the future-state enterprise-wide architecture to support core systems, global collaboration, and long-term data, analytics, and technology strategies.

Working in a multinational, mission-driven environment, you will provide leadership and influence both strategic and operational decisions while future-proofing the technology landscape. A key aspect of the role will be ensuring that emerging technology shifts, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence, are effectively leveraged.

Your mission

• Design, implement, and continuously evolve the Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) and Enterprise Architecture practice including 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 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 internal & external 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

• A degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Engineering, or a comparable field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Strong expertise in Enterprise Architecture Management, including common frameworks, modern data architecture principles, and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF; certification highly desirable)
• Curiosity and a holistic understanding of business, application, data, and infrastructure architecture
• The ability to simplify complexity and communicate architectural concepts and their rationale clearly to diverse stakeholder groups
• Proven experience leading or contributing to complex IT initiatives, ideally in agile or scaled‑agile environments (e.g. SAFe, LeSS, )
• 6+ years of experience as an Enterprise Architect, including 3+ years in architecture or technical leadership roles (e.g., Chief Architect or similar)
• Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills, paired with strong leadership and communication capabilities in English (no German required)
• A proactive, independent, and structured way of working in complex organizational environments