Application Architect (m/w/d)
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Company Description
Everience is an international consulting group delivering AI-augmented digital services and placing people at the heart of the AI revolution.
With a presence in Europe, Africa, Asia and America, Everience offers its 4,000-strong workforce the most demanding and stimulating environment in which to transform and develop their skills, learning about new AI-based roles and building their future employability.
Through its Symbiotic Academy the group offers a unique hub for training, practical application and exchange where everyone can experiment, learn, and progress in the fields of artificial intelligence and data.
In accordance with its core purpose of orchestrating the symbiotic relationship between humans and AI in the workplace, Everience is making the augmented employee the driving force of a “symbiotic age”, where AI enhances talents and opens up new career opportunities.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Application Architect to support strategic IT and digital transformation initiatives for a client operating in the energy sector. In this role, you will help shape and maintain the application architecture landscape, ensuring solutions are scalable, future-proof, and aligned with business and technology objectives. You will work closely with business stakeholders, project teams, architects, and technical experts to guide architectural decisions and support the delivery of key initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support architecture activities for strategic initiatives and transformation programmes.
- Define and maintain application architecture standards, roadmaps, and target architectures.
- Assess business initiatives from an architectural perspective and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
- Provide guidance on application, integration, data, and cloud architecture topics.
- Develop architecture deliverables such as roadmaps, solution designs, and governance documentation.
- Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to identify opportunities for optimisation, standardisation, and innovation.
- Support architecture governance processes, including reviews and architectural assessments.
- Facilitate workshops and discussions with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support development teams by ensuring solutions align with the target architecture and long-term strategy.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry best practices.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5-10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, or similar senior architectural roles.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, SAFe, or Zachman.
- Proven experience working in large, complex, international organisations.
- Experience with integration architecture and API-based ecosystems.
- Experience with data platforms, data governance, and data architecture.
- Experience with cloud technologies and hybrid architectures.
- Experience supporting digital transformation initiatives.
- Experience with business capability modelling and application portfolio management.
- Strong understanding of business, application, data, integration, and technology architecture domains.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business recommendations.
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating across organisational boundaries.
Nice to Have
- Experience within the energy, utilities, renewables, manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation, telecommunications, or other asset-intensive sectors.
- Experience with IT/OT architecture and operational technology environments.
- Knowledge of Industrial IoT, telemetry, SCADA, or real-time operational data platforms.
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation or growth programmes.
- Knowledge of advanced analytics and data-driven operating models.
Additional Information
All our positions are open to both women and men and are, of course, open to people with disabilities.
Core Responsibilities
The Application Architect will define and maintain application architecture standards and roadmaps to support strategic digital transformation initiatives. They will collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to ensure solutions are scalable, future-proof, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
Requirements
Candidates must have 5-10 years of experience in architectural roles and a strong understanding of frameworks like TOGAF, ArchiMate, or SAFe. Proven experience in large, complex international organizations and expertise in cloud, data, and integration architecture are required.
About EVERIENCE
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size: 51-200 employees
Since 2012, we have been helping our clients in Business Development and achieving their goals in a market undergoing deep contraction and change. In line with corporate objectives, since 2020, we have finalized the acquisition by the French company Helpline, a European leader in IT support, User Experience, and digital transformation, in our shared path of geographical expansion, and we have become part of the international group under the everience brand. As part of the group, which employs over 5,000 people, we offer three main areas of business in Italy: Helpdesk Support Managed Services: Ongoing support from technicians, system administrators, and network experts for the client infrastructure in corporate and enterprise environments, aimed at reducing costs through digitalization and the implementation of nearshore multilingual solutions (300 agents in Timisoara, Romania). Break Fix Support and Technical Dispatch in Italy and Abroad: Through our technicians, partners, and suppliers, we support our clients in their global expansion projects, following them in different locations. We handle IMAC activities and distributed technological projects: we offer service management based on the ITIL framework across the entire process, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Technology Consulting: Thanks to our background and corporate experience, we provide SMEs with proven solutions, allowing them to focus valuable energy on revenue generation and cost reduction. We design and implement customized IT solutions while respecting client requests and objectives. For a no-obligation quote, we offer a free benchmark on the status of your technological services. Digitalizing your processes is a matter of how, not if. As soon as possible, not when. Why not be supported by experts?