IT Enterprise Architect

About the Role

We are seeking to strengthen our IT Governance team at the Münster location – Am Mittelhafen as soon as possible with an IT Enterprise Architect focusing on Domain Architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and take responsibility for IT architectures tailored to defined business domains, aligning with corporate strategy, domain models, and IT strategy.
• Support domain leaders regarding domain architecture, translating business vision into viable IT target architectures, providing clarity for architectural decisions within the domain.
• Analyze business processes, capabilities, applications, data, interfaces, and technologies within a domain to identify necessary actions, define target images, and develop roadmaps.
• Harmonize IT landscapes within and across domains, reduce redundancy, and promote reuse, standardization, and clear architectural decisions.
• Evaluate functional and technical demands concerning architectural compliance, target architectures, reuse opportunities, integration capabilities, data flows, and strategic alignment.
• Develop domain-specific architectural principles, guidelines, reference architectures, and decision-making frameworks consistent with overarching enterprise architecture.
• Act as an architect for transformation and digitization initiatives within domains, integrating architectural principles, standards, and governance early on.
• Collaborate closely with enterprise architects, solution architects, business units, IT teams, project management, governance committees, and external partners.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide architecture activities including architecture standards, technology decisions, roadmaps, governance, and evolving the Enterprise Architecture Management approach.

Required Qualifications

• A completed degree in (business) informatics, economics, or a comparable qualification.
• Several years of experience in Enterprise Architecture Management, domain architecture, business architecture, solution architecture, or a similar strategic IT role.
• Strong understanding of business models, processes, and capabilities with the ability to translate these into robust IT architectures for business domains.
• Proficiency in business, application, data, and technology architecture levels with capacity to depict and assess interdependencies domain-wise.
• Experience analyzing and designing complex application landscapes, data flows, interfaces, integration patterns, and platform architectures.
• Good knowledge of modern architectural concepts, cloud architectures, API management, integration platforms, data architectures, and IT operation models.
• Competency in advising domain owners and stakeholders, preparing architectural decisions transparently, and moderating conflicting interests.
• Preferably possesses relevant experience in specialized logistics domains (e.g., contract logistics).
• Structured, analytical, and solution-focused work style combining strategic thinking with pragmatic implementation.
• Fluent German and excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken.