Enterprise Architect - #45182

YOUR MISSION

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The Enterprise Architect for OS & BF plays a strategic role within Group Technology by shaping and evolving the architectural landscape across foundational business domains such as Finance, HR, Procurement, Manufacturing , Traceability, Logistics, Supply Chain, and Omnichannel Operations. This role ensures that enterprise architecture provides a coherent, scalable, and business‑aligned blueprint for these vertical capabilities, enabling Richemont’s Maisons and Group Functions to operate efficiently and transform effectively.

While business domains define strategy, capabilities, and process priorities, the OS & BF Enterprise Architect ensures that these ambitions are translated into robust, sustainable, and standardized technology architectures. Acting as the architectural referent for domain‑specific solution architects and program teams, this role defines the structure, principles, and patterns that guide solution design, promote harmonization, and ensure long‑term platform viability.

A critical success factor for this role is the close collaboration with business stakeholders, solution architects, enterprise architecture peers, and technology teams to ensure that designs remain coherent across domains, compliant with Group Technology standards, and aligned with global transformation trajectories

HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?

• Provide domain specific architectural leadership
• Serve as the architecture authority for all OS & BF functional domains, defining how application, data, and integration landscapes should evolve to support business strategy.
• Translate business capability needs into target architectures, high level designs, and actionable architectural guidance.
  
  

• Guide and harmonize solution delivery
• Support and coach solution architects across Finance, HR, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain, and Omnichannel programs.
• Ensure that solutions adhere to enterprise principles, domain boundaries, integration standards, and technology guardrails.
  
  

• Lead and animate design authorities
• Chair or co-chair Design Authority sessions for OS & BF, ensuring consistent architectural decision making.
• Validate solution designs and manage architectural risks, tradeoffs, and technical debt considerations.
  
  

• Define and maintain domain reference architectures
• Build and update business capability maps, target state blueprints, domain architecture models, and transition roadmaps.
• Provide reusable patterns, architectural building blocks, and guidelines specific to OS & BF domains.
  
  

• Support major transformation programs
• Engage with initiatives such as composable ERP modernization, manufacturing & supply chain digitization, traceability platform development, omnichannel platform evolution, HR platform enhancements, and procurement transformation.
• Ensure architectural coherence across program streams and alignment with enterprise wide roadmaps.
  
  

• Promote cross domain alignment
• Represent the OS & BF domains in enterprise-wide architecture forums and contribute to global architectural principles.
• Identify cross domain dependencies and drive harmonization across Applications, Integration, Data, Technology, and Security domains.
  
  

• Ensure compliance with standards and governance
• Guarantee adherence to enterprise architecture standards, security guidelines, integration patterns, and technology frameworks.
• Support quality gates, governance processes, and architectural assurance mechanisms.
  
  

• Evaluate emerging technologies and innovation opportunities
• Assess innovative solutions relevant to vertical domains (e.g., AI in operations, automation in supply chain, digital twins in manufacturing, advanced analytics in finance).
• Recommend opportunities for modernization, simplification, or consolidation.
  

HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCCESS WITH US?

• Significant experience as an Enterprise Architect in a complex, large-scale enterprise.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, SABSA, Zachman) and their application.
• Strong expertise in one or more domains: Finance, HR, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Retail/Omnichannel, etc.
• Deep understanding of ERP platforms (e.g., SAP S/4HANA), HRIS systems, supply chain suites, and related enterprise platforms.
• Proven ability to design and maintain target architectures, capability models, and transition roadmaps.
• Fluency in architecture modeling and documentation tools (e.g., LeanIX, ArchiMate, etc.).
• Ability to translate control objectives into practical, repeatable, and standardized technical controls.
• Balances the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organization goals.
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives and apply multiple solutions to business problems.
• Skilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating stakeholders and peers in decision making.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and guide cross-functional teams on architectural topics.
• Technology neutral: unbiased toward specific technologies or vendors, focused on outcomes.
• Fluency in English is required; fluency in French is an asset.