About this role
Associate Enterprise Architect (Leiden, ZH, NL, 2332 AA) Heerema IT Posted on Jun 24, 2026 Ready to extend your impact beyond individual solutions? As Associate Enterprise Architect, you help shape a coherent and future‑proof digital landscape across the organisation. Your role in the story: As an Associate Enterprise Architect, you help translate business needs and solution initiatives into a coherent and future‑proof enterprise landscape. This role is designed for an experienced Solution Architect who is ready to expand their impact beyond individual solutions and contribute to enterprise‑wide architecture. You work closely with senior architects, delivery teams and business stakeholders to improve alignment, consistency and transparency across the IT landscape. You play a key role in bridging the gap between incoming demand, enterprise architecture and delivery. By structuring ideas early and translating them into clear, actionable work, you ensure that technology decisions are well‑founded and scalable. You are not just supporting architecture, you actively contribute to shaping how technology decisions are made across the organisation. What you will be working on: - Contributing to the development and maintenance of the enterprise application and technology landscape - Participating in architecture reviews to ensure solution designs align with architectural standards and target architecture - Structuring and refining incoming demand (e.g. TopDesk intake) into clear problem statements, business value and defined scope - Driving and supporting the early stages of initiatives (Intake, Investigate, Definition), translating ideas into actionable Epics and Features in Azure DevOps - Ensuring alignment between architectural direction and delivery by working closely with Product Owners and delivery teams to create a usable, value‑driven backlog - Translating solution‑level insights into enterprise‑level models, patterns and re...