Enterprise Architect – Integration / Connectivity (m/w/x)

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Welcome to ZEISS – a company that combines innovation and responsibility! Our corporate areas are diverse and contribute decisively to the strategic orientation and sustainable success of the ZEISS Group.

To strengthen our central Team Enterprise Architecture & Innovation in the company IT in Oberkochen, Munich or Jena, we are looking for an experienced enterprise architect that covers one or more EA domains at ZEISS. In this role you give orientation, introduce your architectural expertise and take responsibility within the EAM (Enterprise Architecture Managements) of the Carl ZEISS Group.

Development of the Enterprise Architecture Domaine “Integration / Connectivity”. You develop a comprehensive vision of target architecture and focus significantly on business requirements and the classic EAM approach.

You drive the identification and evaluation of new technologies (e.g. cloud-native integration, event-driven architecture, API management, IoT/Edge/Cloud connectivity) and support the departments in shaping their digital agenda.

Takeover of the governance role in architectural decisions and representation of architectural concepts in company-wide architecture bodies.

You act in your key role as an architect in the planning, moderation and documentation of architectural workshops with architects, IT colleagues and business representatives.

You have an understanding of relevant business strategies, their derivation to technological, organisational and process capabilities and the impact on the application landscape to identify and prioritize the EA enhancement potentials.

You act as a “Trusted Advisor”, which is responsible for their domains across the spectrum and supports lateral solution architects.

Based on your knowledge, you can take responsibility for adjacent relevant EA domains, such as ERP (engineer-to-order, lead-to-cash, inbound-to-outbound, record-to-report), marketing, e-commerce, production/production, etc.

You have a strong professional experience and have already gained experience in the enterprise environment, with sound experiences in the integration and connectivity environment as well as broad knowledge of SAP technologies being advantageous.

You have a pronounced technical affinity and a pronounced ability to solve problems. You will also be able to convince by sound methodological knowledge and experience in architectural consulting.

Objectives of the EAM are known to you and you apply them successfully. This also includes methods and tools for architectural and process documentation (e.g. LeanIX, Archimate, Signavio).

You have analytical skills, good presentation techniques and very good communication skills in German and English

You have completed your studies (e.g. Computer Science / Business Informatics) or a comparable qualification.

Certificates in the areas TOGAF and SAFe are advantageous.

With us, you will operate the Enterprise Architecture as a continuous discipline with the aim to translate the Business Architecture into the IT architecture. With us you have the opportunity to develop new business models and to work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable and future-oriented high-tech company that was founded 175 years ago as a start-up. Interested? Then we look forward to meeting you!

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