Enterprise Architect (f/m/x)

Overview

As a key member of the Architecture & Application Portfolio Management team, you will steer the progress of Enterprise Architecture (EA) at the group level. Central to your role is the development and enhancement of Enterprise Architecture Management practices in LeanIX, which forms the backbone for transparent insight into business processes, applications, data, and technologies.

Primary Responsibilities

• Establish and evolve Enterprise Architecture Management and LeanIX as the main architecture repository by enhancing the metamodel, fact sheets, roles, and governance processes.
• Prepare comprehensive visibility across the IT landscape by organizing, documenting, and making accessible business processes, capabilities, applications, data, technology components, interfaces, and interdependencies.
• Implement and maintain data quality standards with clear accountability, proactively addressing data inconsistencies, ensuring LeanIX is a trustworthy tool for business decision-making.
• Champion stakeholder engagement through collaboration with business and IT units by conducting trainings, roadshows, and reviews to embed architecture processes into everyday activities sustainably.
• Independently manage specific architecture topics and business domains from current state analysis to devising target architectures, assessing options, and delivering architecture blueprints and impact analyses for relevant stakeholders.
• Advance reusable architectural principles, standards, and guardrails, while spotting opportunities for standardization and simplification.
• Evaluate new business requirements and technologies for implications on enterprise architecture, prioritize initiatives, and convert them into actionable architectural steps.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Multiple years of experience in enterprise architecture working with complex IT landscapes.
• Strong hands-on expertise with LeanIX or similar Enterprise Architecture Management tools, including proficiency in target architecture development, portfolio management, and transformation initiatives. Experience in retail sectors is advantageous.
• Strategic mindset capable of translating broad architectural visions into clear, practical target architectures and development pathways.
• Methodical and clear documentation skills for capturing complex relationships within LeanIX workflows.
• Proven ability to cultivate enduring relationships across business units and IT, actively supporting communication within the architecture community.
• Practical application and integration of architecture processes into daily operations ensuring sustainability.
• Competence in steering IT landscape evolution by identifying synergies, standardization, and rationalization potentials.
• Fluency in German and English for confident communication with international stakeholders and business partners.

Additional Information

The employer embraces diversity and equal opportunity, welcoming applications from various backgrounds including parents, persons with disabilities, and the LGBTQIA+ community. Requests for gender-neutral pronouns, accessibility accommodations, or extended application time are supported. Candidates should include their salary expectations and earliest possible start date in their application.

About the Employer

The Douglas Group is Europe's leading omnichannel premium beauty retailer, featuring brands such as DOUGLAS, NOCIBÉ, Parfumdreams, and Niche Beauty. Offering a broad spectrum of beauty products and services through online platforms and approximately 1,970 stores across Europe, the group generated €4.58 billion in sales during the fiscal year 2024/25 and employs over 19,900 staff. Listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the company focuses on enhancing customer experience through a strategic omnichannel business model under the “Let it Bloom” initiative.