Principal Enterprise Architect Professional Services (Milan)

Experteer Overview

As Principal Enterprise Architect Professional Services, you steer architecture across the transformation lifecycle to enable long-term value. You will bridge business goals with technical delivery, shaping target architectures and roadmaps while ensuring executive confidence and governance. You lead platform evolution, adoption, and decommissioning strategies, partnering with pre‑sales, delivery teams, and partners. This role combines strategic advisory with hands‑on governance in a fast‑paced, AI‑enabled enterprise environment.

Retribuzione / Benefits

• Assess and advance architectural intent from pre‑sales


• Provide architectural leadership across the transformation lifecycle and guide platform adoption


• Convert success roadmaps into managed transition plans with sequencing and risk controls


• Create industry‑specific architectural perspectives and target‑state architectures


• Maintain executive trust and act as strategic advisor to senior stakeholders


• Collaborate with licensing and services sales to support major initiatives


• Coordinate architectural efforts among delivery teams, SMEs, and partners for build integrity


• Establish and lead architecture governance and assurance forums


• Partner with pre‑sales to capture lessons learned and improve reference architectures

Responsabilità

• Enterprise architecture leadership across large‑scale transformation programmes


• Strong grounding in TOGAF principles and lifecycle governance


• Broad understanding of digital marketing, data, and activation ecosystems


• Ability to translate architectural choices into business results for executives


• Trusted architectural advisor to senior executives


• Understanding of AI, automation, and emerging agentic models in enterprise platforms


• Experience with working with delivery teams, partners, and vendors to maintain build integrity


• Ability to apply ADKAR or similar change/adoption frameworks to organizational aspects of evolution


• Collaborative, outcome‑focused leadership style with emphasis on value and adoption


• Fluency in English and Italian (additional European language a plus)