Senior Enterprise Architect, Global IT

Do you have a proven history of delivering on business & IT outcomes with your Enterprise architecture & consulting toolbox? Are you motivated by working with talented colleagues to tame enterprise complexity & harvest on digital opportunities? If this applies to you, we hope that you are our new team member to join us on an exciting transformation journey!

Global IT Vestas Solutions VPS Enterprise Architecture
Reporting to the CFO, Vestas Global IT is large-scale enterprise IT organisation midway on the journey from back-office corporate IT to be an agile, scalable and cost-effective digital service provider for the Vestas business and our end customers. We already have several innovative capabilities in place or under development, while at the same time an extremely complex and pervasive legacy environment creates ongoing opportunities for transformation.

Within the larger journey, Vestas Global IT is building a modern EA competency that is responsible for both classical, cross-domain EA and Technology Acceleration for key under-developed capability areas. Under the tagline 'EA is something we do, not something we are', the EA department is the overall accountable for ensuring the needed outcomes and value are achieved through the orchestration of key resources across the organisation. In other words, the EA department is a 'Center of Enablement' rather than a standalone 'Center of Excellence'.

In order to fulfill this mission, we are expanding our Enterprise- & Technical Architecture team and you will be joining a team of three talented team members whose experience covers the range from EA to management consulting, and from big data systems engineering to organisational and digital transformation.

To complement the existing team, we expect you to have a proven history of creating business results and bottom-line IT benefits with your EA toolbox in complex corporate IT environments. Key watchwords around the needed outcomes include agility, reusability, extensibility, and manageability - all delivered with a cost-effective focus that still leaves plenty of room for innovation. To achieve these results, you will be expected to direct and conduct initiatives that create a red thread from critical business capabilities and strategies to aligned and integrated domain target architectures that can collectively be delivered on in a reliable and cohesive way. One additional opportunity is that these higher-level outcomes will need to be achieved over time based on an incremental approach that delivers value in-flight, and we look forward to your experience and insights to lift and support us in such a journey.

Responsibilities
Overall, your main responsibility will be to enable and set the direction and evolution of our integrated landscape of IT technologies and platforms to best enable the digital transformation of Global IT and the Vestas business.

To succeed, you will need to challenge, enable and collaborate with a variety of key stakeholders to deliver effective reference and target architectures that will guide IT investment to best enable current and future business priorities. Key elements to highlight in this regard are our data and integration architectures and our extensive SAP landscape as we move towards S/4 HANA.

In addition, you will be expected to actively contribute to the development of the architectural community within Vestas and to provide visible thought leadership, proactive direction and relevant best-practice as part of anchoring EA as a sustainable and value-creating capability for IT and business.

Finally, you will need to be a compelling advocate for architectural methodology and thinking to optimise the return on IT investment and long-term value creation in the business.
Within this frame, some of your core responsibilities will be to:

• Deploy & maintain an EA repository & toolset around ArchiMate & TOGAF
• Develop & maintain business capability modelling together with key stakeholders
• Design & guide end-to-end integrated architectures for & across core platforms
• Develop & maintain current & planned state architectural blueprints
• Support efficient architecture governance
• Participate in the design & implementation of an ideation & innovation process
• Orchestrate cross-functional work with emerging technologies

Qualifications
To qualify and succeed in this position, you probably have:

• Significant experience (minimum 7 years) of using EA as a discipline and toolbox to provide business and IT outcomes
• Experience in creating value with landscapes & architecture based on incomplete information
• A masters’ degree in a relevant field

Deep experience with at least two of the following disciplines:

• Enterprise Information Management & Data Architecture
• Enterprise Integration Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture in a complex & large-scale SAP shop

Competencies
Your core competencies will be considered just as carefully as your qualifications, and we are looking for:

• A trusted partner profile accomplished at building internal and external bridges, including the ability to adapt and meet the other halfway in the face of resistance
• The ability to see and sell a bigger / better picture by mapping it out and bringing others along on the journey
• The skill to develop and deliver engaging workshops that produce results
• The competence to design and run structured projects for yourself and/or others, even if you don't enjoy it
• Someone who thrives on creating agility out of chaos, and can do it with a smile

What we offer
We offer an exciting and complex job with significant opportunities for professional and personal development in an inspiring environment at the world's leading wind turbine manufacturer and service provider. As a company and department, we value collaboration, simplicity and accountability, together with passion and the right balance between creativity, outcomes and cost in all that we do.

Additional information
The role will be based at Hedeager 44, 8200 Aarhus N - Denmark. For the right candidate, alternative location (e.g. Videbæk or Copenhagen, Denmark) can be discussed.

There will be limited travel activity (10-20 days annually).

Applications are handled on an ongoing basis. Please send your letter of motivation, along with your CV - as soon as possible – and no later than 7th December 2020 - using the link on this page. For additional information regarding the position, please contact Director – Enterprise Architecture, Benny Pedersen via phone +45 2517 1575. All inquiries are treated confidentially.

About Vestas

Vestas is proud to be the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We design, manufacture, install, and service wind turbines across the globe, and we have installed more wind power than anyone else.

Vestas strives to be the most inclusive workplace in the sustainable energy industry and ensure equal opportunities for everyone regardless of the social identity. We are stronger as a company not despite our differences, but because of them, both professionally and personally. Beyond a diverse workforce, we want to ensure that all of our employees are included and actively contributing to Vestas’ success and innovation. Only then can we become the global leader in sustainable energy solutions and ensure sustainability in everything we do.

At Vestas, we offer global opportunities for people with growth mindsets and the desire to make a shared and positive impact. We work in the true spirit of our corporate values: accountability, simplicity, collaboration, and passion. We expect everyone to live up to these in their day to day work – no matter what you do and where you are in the organisation.

Learn more about Vestas at www.vestas.com and follow us on our social media channels.