Role & responsibilities
Define and govern the target-state enterprise architecture across business, applications, data, integration, and technology.
Build and institutionalize the Group Enterprise Architecture function from a practical operating perspective.
Establish architecture governance forums, review gates, standards, patterns, principles, and exception processes.
Ensure Oracle Fusion and surrounding platforms are governed as part of one enterprise architecture, not as isolated workstreams
Drive application rationalization and modernization across fragmented legacy and point solutions.
Define architecture guardrails for low-code and no-code platforms such as DronaHQ, ensuring speed without creating shadow IT.
Strengthen the enterprise data architecture backbone, including master data, canonical models, interoperability, and reporting consistency.
Work closely with the CISO to ensure architecture decisions align with enterprise security and resilience requirements.
Support enterprise reinvention, integrated project management, manufacturing excellence, and business model transformation through architecture leadership.
Improve enterprise decision quality by linking architecture to investment governance, transformation prioritization, and delivery assurance.





Preferred candidate profile
Proven leadership in building or running an Enterprise Architecture function in a large, complex organization.
18+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, enterprise technology leadership, or large-scale transformation architecture roles.
Solid experience in multi-entity, diversified, or group structures with federated or hybrid operating models.
Demonstrated experience in Oracle-centered enterprise environments, including architecture alignment across Finance, Procurement, Projects, integrations, reporting, and master data
Strong track record in rationalizing fragmented application estates and governing enterprise platforms at scale.
Experience in data architecture, MDM, enterprise integration, and business-data alignment
Robust experience in industrial, EPC, energy, manufacturing, or similarly project-driven business settings
Experience governing architecture in environments with cybersecurity, cloud, low-code, data, and enterprise application complexity
Evidence of influencing senior stakeholders, challenging constructively, and making architecture decisions stick in live enterprise settings

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