Applications Architect - Senior

Role Overview: The Application Architect plans and designs a portfolio of applications supporting one or more business processes. The Application Architect acts as the ambassador between tech departments and business-side units. The Application Architect understands the organization's overarching needs and develops a software strategy that meets critical business goals and ensuring desired performance, capacity, and scalability. The Application Architect is following the market trends for application solutions and technologies within its area of expertise.

The Application Architect establishes thought leadership and bring new knowledge to the organization. The Application Architect develops and maintains the application stack architecture and standards and defines direction and scope of development of applications/products. The Application Architect feeds the development teams to ensure the application roadmap fits to future. The Application Architect has a deep understanding of the development tool stack used for the development and maintenance of the Application stack.

Assignment Overview: Our client is seeking an experienced Senior IT Architect to support strategic and transformational initiatives within the Wind Business area. The consultant will play a key role in shaping and guiding the IT architecture landscape that enables the growth, digitalisation, and operational excellence of the client's onshore and offshore wind operations. The assignment involves working closely with business stakeholders, project teams, enterprise architects, solution architects, and domain experts to ensure that initiatives are supported by fit-for-purpose, scalable, and future-proof architecture solutions aligned with the client's strategic objectives and enterprise standards.

The consultant will provide architectural leadership across business, application, data, integration, and technology domains, contributing to both project delivery and long-term capability development. The consultant will be expected to: Lead and support architecture activities for strategic Wind Business initiatives and transformation programmes. Assess and shape business initiatives from an architectural perspective, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and target states.

Provide expert guidance on: IT strategy, Integration architecture, Data architecture and data management, Digitalisation and innovation initiatives, Cloud adoption and platform strategy, IT/OT integration and convergence. Develop architecture deliverables including target architectures, roadmaps, solution overviews, architecture decision records, and governance artefacts. Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to identify opportunities for process improvements, standardisation, and technology optimisation.

Support architecture governance processes, including reviews, assessments, and decision-making forums. Facilitate workshops and architectural discussions with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Promote architecture best practices and contribute to the continuous development of architectural capabilities within the Wind Business domain.

The ideal consultant demonstrates: Minimum 5-10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Solution Architecture, or similar senior architectural roles. Proven experience working in asset-intensive industries such as energy, utilities, renewables, manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation, or telecommunications. Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, ArchiMate, SAFe, Zachman).

Experience with: Integration architecture and API-based ecosystems, Data platforms and data governance, Cloud technologies and hybrid architectures, Digital transformation programmes, Business capability modelling, Application portfolio management. Experience operating in large and complex international organisations. Ability to translate complex technical and architectural topics into clear business recommendations for management and senior stakeholders.

Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills. Demonstrated ability to work independently while effectively collaborating across organisational boundaries. The following experience is considered advantageous: Renewable energy, utilities, wind power, offshore operations, or energy trading environments. IT/OT architecture and operational technology environments. Industrial IoT, telemetry, SCADA, and real-time operational data platforms.

Experience supporting large-scale growth, acquisition, or transformation programmes. Knowledge of data-driven operating models and advanced analytics capabilities.

Personal Characteristics: The consultant is expected to be: Strategic and business-oriented. Proactive and self-managing. Strong in stakeholder engagement and relationship building. Comfortable challenging existing approaches and driving innovation. Capable of balancing long-term architectural direction with practical project delivery needs.

Education: Language Requirements: English (mandatory); Dutch, German, or Danish is considered an advantage.

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands (hybrid working model).