Business Architect Commercial Domain

DLL has a large and complex global IT landscape that supports a wide variety of business processes and many customers in multiple ways. This landscape is continuously changing driven by innovations, new business models, increasing digitalization, process improvements and introduction of the latest technology such as Artificial Intelligence. The Digital Business model of DLL requires many integrations with large international companies across the globe based on state-of-the-art architecture and technology. Increasing the ease speed and convenience for partners to do business is the challenge DLL faces in the coming years. In order to realize the business ambition DLL is looking for a Business Architect CCO

Are you the sparring partner for business and IT leaders to bring strategy into practice by creating, embedding and realizing business and technology architecture taking long term in- and external developments into account? Are you the Business Architect who motivates, inspires and facilitates a team of solution architects and wants to work closely with the business stakeholders on transforming the business? Are you the person who really understands the business and defines the best solution for their problems in the commercial area?

Find out more here about how you can unleash your full potential at DLL

Day To Day

Become a member of the Global CCO Enterprise Architecture team to inspire, motivate and facilitate a solution architecture community within the commercial domain. The Busines Architect CCO will be focused on the Asset Management and Pay-per-use (PPU) area. These teams are responsible for IT operations and support business change in an Agile way. Your role is to guide and coach these teams pro-actively. You can also expect to work with ambitious business management that always is looking for new opportunities. In this role you are the orchestrator of change.

You can

• Participate in the creation and execution of long-term strategic and operating planning of commercial teams to ensure that the Enterprise Architecture objectives are supportive of the enterprise’s long-term business objectives.
• Support the development of the Enterprise Target Architecture for the Asset Management and PPU domains.
• Develop, maintain, and implement the Target State Architecture for CCO-teams and specifically for the asset management and PPU area.
• Develop and maintain the Portfolio Roadmap including transition state architecture.
• Chair the architecture sync meetings, like a solution-design-authority (SDA).
• Oversees the architecture work in your domain, divides the work together with the team and manages expectations with business stakeholders.
• Plan and support the creation of Solution Architecture for new and adjusted solutions that will enter the commercial IT landscape.
• Motivate, inspire and facilitate a functional team of Solution Architects securing architecture alignment in solution development.
• Execute architecture governance by enforcing the architecture process in the organization to make and capture decisions made regarding architecture.
• Keep the baseline architecture in the architecture repository up-to-date to following the DLL ArchiMate Standards and actively coach Solution Architects on the use of ArchiMate.
• Ensure that the respective business, application, information and technology perspectives are in line with the organization’s technology and governance strategies, policies and standards.
• Support the creation and implementation of Enterprise Reference Architectures that contain Technology Standards. Actively communicate these standards and continuously improve them to meet market best practice and customer needs.
  
  

All members enjoy

• Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity.
• Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities.
• Flexible hours with possibility to work from home
• Career development opportunities: online learning, member development programs.
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“We not only live up to the expectations of our customers for today, but also anticipate their market needs of tomorrow.”

Essentials

• Ten years experience in Enterprise Architecture covering mainly business, but also application and technology architecture.
• University level Education (MSc).
• Excellent communication in speech and writing in English.
• Certified for TOGAF © and ArchiMate ©.
• Proven experience in applying architecture modelling standards.
• Thorough understanding of financial industry in general.
• Experience in business and IT strategy development.
  
  

Extras

• A Business Architect with over 10 years of experience preferably in the international Financial Services Industry dealing with the increasingly digital needs of the customer.
• A conceptual thinker who continuously balances long term strategic direction with short term needs. You are result driven and able to translate business strategy into business and technology architecture.
• An excellent communicator in speech and writing who easily can interact on senior management level in the company, able to convey complex process and IT subjects in executive terminology.
• An out of the box thinker who can understand business problems and together with a team can define the best solution for the problem.
• An eager person who really wants to understand how the business works and who develops ways to improve the processes and IT solutions.
• Pragmatic during implementation of the architecture design when necessary to drive change forward while keeping long term objectives into account.
• Comfortable in working in an Agile delivery model enabling fast delivery of the investment portfolio continuously ensuring strategy objectives are achieved as well.
• Open to learn, always having an outside-in view focused on the customer.
• A networker, sensitive to the business domain and able to influence a divers stakeholder community. You are the one who can help your stakeholders to prioritize the demand for change.
• A coach for your peers in architecture and a mediator for stakeholders with different interests in terms of investment priorities.
  
  

Choose wellbeing

DLL’s wellbeing ambition is to educate, equip and empower members to build connections, manage their mental, emotional, physical and financial wellness and maintain balance between work and the other priorities that make up their lives.

Our Four Wellbeing Categories Are As Follows

• Connection – Build meaningful connections with other DLL members
• Health – Manage mental, emotional and physical health
• Finance – Provide learning opportunities to help members achieve personal financial health
• Lifestyle – Maintain balance between work and life priorities
  
  

These are the things that matter to our members and the wellbeing of our members matters to DLL

Settling in

At DLL, we are many things. We are team members, family members, community member. We are members of society, members of different cultures and nationalities. Members of change. We each have different beliefs, different passions, different viewpoints, talents and interests. We come from different backgrounds, cultures, nationalities and histories.

But for all of our differences, we share one thing in common: each of us are members of DLL.

Our company was founded in the Netherlands. But today we are truly a multinational business. Our unique culture is rooted in higher collaboration, less hierarchy and an honest directness that enable us to integrate, ideate and innovate across country lines.

Many companies say they are European, American, Asian or Australian, at DLL we are all these places and more.

We are a cross-culture collaborative – an interconnected network – that comes together every single day with one goal in mind: Partnering for a better world.

Good To Know

• Deadline for application: April 30th (Due to high volume of applications this requisition may close prior to posted close date)
• The selection process may involve an assessment.
• Applications via email will not be reviewed. Please apply online via our career website.
• DLL’s referral program applies
• For more information, please contact our Talent acquisition partner Omnia Hassan via omnia.hassan@dllgroup.com
  
  

DLL appreciates the time you spend applying to our openings. We advise only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted. Hiring subject to successful completion of a background check.

DLL is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation in accordance with our values and all applicable legislation.