Enterprise Architect (F/H)

Location : France, Spain or Germany

Hybrid/remote depending on location. Travel up to 20%.

Permanent position

Salary Package : Based on your experience and skills

Start date : As soon as possible

Experience : 5+ years

The application will be subject to a security check in accordance with French national security requirements.

Purpose of the Job :

The Enterprise Architect (EA) is responsible for aligning business strategy with technology capabilities, ensuring the organization’s portfolio of applications, data, infrastructure, and security controls delivers measurable business value. The EA defines the target architecture, governs standards, and orchestrates transformation roadmaps that enable scalable growth, cost efficiency, and resilience.

Key responsibilities :

Strategy & Architecture

• Translate business strategy into an actionable enterprise architecture vision, principles, and target state (business, application, data, technology, and security domains).
• Develop and maintain architecture blueprints and roadmaps that guide modernization, cloud adoption, and platform consolidation.
• Establish and oversee architecture governance (standards, patterns, reference architectures, reviews, waivers).

Portfolio & Planning

• Lead current‑state assessments (capability maps, process maps, application inventories, technology stacks, technical debt).
• Create multi‑year transformation plans with investment cases, value metrics, milestones, and dependencies.
• Partner with Finance to prioritize initiatives using TCO, ROI, and risk models; support annual planning and budget cycles.
• Communicate complex topics clearly through visuals, narratives, and measurable KPIs.

Solution Oversight

• Guide solution architects and engineering teams to ensure designs conform to enterprise standards and non‑functional requirements (scalability, performance, reliability).
• Run Architecture Review Boards; assess designs for fit‑for‑purpose and strategic alignment.
• Define integration strategies (APIs, event-driven, messaging), data architecture (master data, lineage, quality).

Risk, Compliance & Resilience

• Ensure architectures meet security baselines, privacy regulations (GDPR, etc.), industry standards (ISO, NIST, CIS), and BC/DR requirements.
• Perform risk assessments, maintain architecture decisions records (ADRs), and manage technology lifecycle (roadmaps, EOL/EOS).

Why take the plunge?

One of France's TOP10 engineering consultancies, the Group provides services in industrial project management, supply chain, architecture and development of embedded digital systems, information systems applications and Artificial Intelligence in sectors as varied as aeronautics, space, automotive, rail, services, luxury goods and retail.

Founded in 1989, SCALIAN today employs over 5,500 people in 11 countries and 15 locations in France, with sales of 550 million euros. SCALIAN works for major CAC40 groups on both TA and fixed-price projects.

Awarded the Great Place to Work label, SCALIAN is growing by 20% every year.

Why SCALIAN?

Because Scalian supports you in your career development: comprehensive 1-year onboarding program with your manager and HR, personalized training programs, technical communities, internal events, etc.

Because Scalian promotes Quality of Life at work: Great Place to Work® and Best Workplaces for Women certifications, co-optation bonus, vacation bonus, teleworking agreement.

Because Scalian is developing a concrete and ambitious CSR policy: Sustainable mobility, Environmental actions, Handicap Agreement and Mission Handicap with dedicated time (missionhandicap@scalian.com). Inclusive recruitment process, training for managers and recruiters.

• Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years in architecture, solution design, or engineering leadership, with 4+ years in enterprise architecture or equivalent scope.
• Proven experience in large‑scale IT/Enterprise transformation (ie : MoveToCloud, ERP/CRM modernization, platform consolidation, or data platform build-out).
• Familiarity with EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), modeling (ArchiMate/UML), and governance practices.
• At ease with « Security by Design » standards
• Familiar with regulations applicable to Information Systems (Risk & Compliance)
• Familiar with norms & standards applicable to IT environments ISO2700x, NIST, RGPD…)
• Fluent English. Another European language will be a plus
• Strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery focus
• Influence without authority; stakeholder management
• Systems thinking and risk-awareness
• Clear communication—visuals + narratives for execs and engineers
• Decision discipline—Architecture Design Reviews, trade‑off analysis
• Continuous improvement mindset

Technical skills

• Cloud: Azure or AWS or GCP—networking, IAM, security, landing zones, cost control.
• Integration: REST/GraphQL APIs, event streaming (Kafka), messaging (Service Bus), ESB/iPaaS.
• Data: Data warehousing/lakehouse, ETL/ELT, MDM, data quality, lineage; BI/AI enablement.
• Security: Zero Trust, IAM, PAM, encryption, key management, vulnerability management, SIEM/SOAR.
• Platforms & DevOps: Containers (Kubernetes), CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub), IaC (Bicep/Terraform), observability (Prometheus/Grafana/App Insights).
• Applications: ERP/CRM, collaboration (M365), custom app ecosystems (.NET/Java/Node).
• Standards & Compliance: GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, PCI (as applicable).

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