Business & Enterprise Architect -experience working in EU Institutions

Job Description

The external service provider will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Coordinate with the team assigned to the task, under the responsibility of EU Officials, to provide input to the contractor(s) from an end-to-end point of view of the development cycle.

• Work within the agile process and make decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all work done by the agile development team.

• Follow various activities across different projects and contractors requiring technical and project management skills, including understanding and complying with a review process, monitoring task status, coordinating internally, and gathering input from various units.

• Support the Development Lifecycle of the project and possess an in-depth knowledge of project goals and objectives.

• Validate requirements considering relevant data space stakeholders such as Simpl-Live projects, DSSC, IDSA, Gaia-X, and propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process improvements.

• Participate in decision-making processes related to user stories scheduling into sprints, review deliverables and product functionalities after each sprint, and participate in live product demonstrations.

• Evaluate and facilitate progress reporting, assist with internal and external communication, prioritize and resolve defects/bugs, and interact with various stakeholders including business analysts, customers, users, project leaders, and developers.

• Supervise the implementation of the Simpl-Open technical architecture, analyze the integration and interoperability of different open-source software building blocks, and act as a technical interface between Simpl programme owners and external developers.

• Assist during testing, analysis, technical documentation, deployment, evaluation, and reporting phases of the project.

Specific Expertise

• Master’s degree combined with relevant IT professional experience of at least 10 years.

• Multi-annual experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems.

• Multi-annual experience with large projects or programmes.

• Multi-annual experience in Agile as well as agile toolbox (i.e., JIRA, Confluence, Big Picture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.).

• Excellent Knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle.

• Good Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman, and actual experience developing and building models based on such framework.

• Experience working in EU Institutions.

• Proven experience as a business analyst within the EU Institutions.

• Good knowledge of cloud architecture frameworks, of Infrastructure as code, and of enterprise architecture frameworks.

• Ability to combine many different skills and experiences to address and solve business, information, and technology-related opportunities and problems.

• Extensive experience with enterprise architecture best practices and goals.

• Excellent leadership, conciliation, and negotiation skills.

• The ability to work in a proactive and independent manner, with a focus on priorities, communication, and decision-making capacities.

Non-Technical Expertise

• Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment, rapid self-starting capability, and experience in working in a team, ability to participate in multilingual meetings.

• Ability to work in a multicultural environment, on multiple large projects.

• Excellent team player, Ownership, and result-oriented mindset, with conciliation and negotiation skills.

• Proven ability and experience to work within a team and a multi-stakeholder’s environment (with contractors/partner companies/clients).

• The ability to work in a proactive and independent manner, with a focus on priorities, clear and transparent communication, and decision-making capacities.

• Good communication skills.

• Excellent command of the English language adaptable to audiences ranging from senior management to technology specialists.

• High degree of discretion and integrity is required as the applications managed and maintained may contain personal and confidential data.

Certifications & Standards

• Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

• Certificate in Business Analysis is an asset

• Project Management certification such as Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI, Prince2 Foundation, PM2