Descrizione dell'offerta
The Lead Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and governing the overall FDP architecture strategy, ensuring alignment between business goals, digital transformation initiatives, and technology capabilities. This role leads a team of domain and solution architects, sets architectural standards and principles, and collaborates closely with senior business and IT stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure, and future-proof technology solutions.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define and maintain FDP architecture vision, principles, and roadmap aligned withbusiness strategy
- Lead and coordinate architecture governance processes, including architectureboards and compliance reviews
- Supervise domain, solution, and technical architects, providing guidance and promoting best practices across teams
- Ensure consistency across platforms, applications, data, infrastructure, and security architecture
- Support strategic initiatives by evaluating emerging technologies, conducting impact assessments, and driving innovation
- Collaborate with business leaders, product owners, and IT leadership to align architecture with transformation goals
- Define architecture KPIs and report on adherence, maturity, and effectiveness
- Build and maintain architectural documentation and reusable assets (reference architecture, standards, guidelines for SDLC etc.)
- Responsible for system Architectures encompassing all Nextech group initiatives
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- 8+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or senior technical leadership roles
- Strong understanding of architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, SAFe forArchitects)
- Experience in Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe) or similar methodologies, with astrong grasp of how architecture integrates with the SDLC.
- Proven experience in large-scale digital transformation and cloud-native architecture focused on IoT and big data (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Solid background in application, data, integration, infrastructure architecture, of microservices design patterns and scalable service composition
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Strategic mindset with ability to balance innovation, risk, and long-term vision
- Fluent in English and Italian
NICE-TO-HAVES
- Certification in TOGAF, SAFe for Architects, or equivalent
- Experience in highly regulated environments (e.g.insurance, maritime, or public sector)
- Experience in establishing and running an Architecture Center of Excellence
- Experience in implementing AI-driven solutions within enterprise architecture