Enterprise Architect (m/f/d)

METRO.digital drives the technology for METRO, one of the leading international wholesalers specializing in food. The team works on e-commerce, checkout, and delivery software to make each day a success for customers and colleagues. The role is to establish enterprise business architecture vision and frameworks, define core architecture artifacts, align strategic roadmaps with business and IT leadership, and lead architecture governance. Position grade within the career framework: Technical Architect Grade 3 (Md10).

Responsibilities

Establish the enterprise business architecture vision, strategy, and frameworks to ensure standardization, harmonization, and simplification; Define and manage core enterprise architecture artifacts (Enterprise Meta Model, business capability maps, as-is/target landscapes); Align strategic architecture roadmaps with business and IT leadership to support transformation and innovation; Lead architecture governance to control complexity, manage risks, and ensure solution interoperability

Requirements

Deep expertise (5+ years minimum) in business capability modeling, enterprise meta models, and cross-domain business processes (ideally in wholesale and/or B2C groceries); Proven track record in leading organization-wide transformation initiatives and delivering measurable business and IT outcomes; Skilled in enterprise architecture governance, ensuring standardization, simplification, and risk control; Strong ability to develop and align strategic roadmaps with business and IT strategies; Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills at executive level; Adept at mapping complex solution landscapes to business needs and identifying optimization opportunities; Collaborative leader, able to work closely with other architects and cross-functional teams to maintain a holistic enterprise view; Excellent communicator, able to translate technical architecture into business-relevant narratives; Experience in scaling architecture frameworks in large, complex, multinational organizations; Very good fluency in English (written and verbal)

Nice to have

Experience in wholesale and/or B2C groceries (ideally)

Benefits

Hybrid and agile work in a flexible, multicultural environment; People development through individual and company-wide programs and trainings (development, leadership, appreciation); Support with individual solutions at every stage of the professional journey