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Job Description

Job Title: Technical Workplace Architect - workplace environments Location: The Hague, Netherlands Employment Type: Contract Activities As a Technical Workplace Architect, you design the modern Microsoft 365 hybrid workplace and oversee its realization through to delivery. You work within the architecture team of the CIO Office. Designing and integrating a modern Microsoft 365 hybrid workplace with Intune and Entra ID Drafting the Project Start Architecture (PSA) and High-Level Designs (HLD) Managing and guiding the migration and management teams towards a successful delivery on schedule. Translating NORA guidelines and ministerial architecture principles into concrete technical designs and action lists Ensuring that the hybrid cloud infrastructure and cloud workplace comply with the BIO, the Woo, and the GDPR Solving complex integration issues between the cloud workplace and on-premises legacy environments Collaborating with engineers on workable technical solutions Context and objective Working within the architecture team of the CIO Office, part of the I-domain Directorate Functional direction by the enterprise architect Contribute to the renewal of the digital workplace Operating within a complex, hybrid government infrastructure with on-premises legacy environments Working at an independent administrative body with over 800 colleagues, spread across nine directorates. To demand You have designed and guided the implementation of at least 2 workplace concepts in the past 5 years, in organizations with at least 1,000 workstations, verifiable via CV and references. In the past 5 years, you have worked as an architect on workplace environments (modern workplace management) based on Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Autopilot, Windows 11, and Intune for at least 3 years. You possess a valid, completed TOGAF or ArchiMate certificate at the start of the assignment. In at least one assignment in the past 5 years, you have translated BIO measures into the workplace concept, for example for conditional access, hardening, or Zero Trust. You have worked as an architect at a (semi-)governmental organization for at least one year in the past five years and applied NORA or EAR during that time. You have at least a C1 level of spoken and written Dutch. Wishes You have at least a completed Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or Technical Informatics. You hold or are in the process of obtaining a current Microsoft certification in the workplace domain, such as MD-102, MS-102, or SC-100. You have knowledge of and experience with Zero Trust and conditional access within Entra ID. You have knowledge of the central government frameworks for cloud and privacy, including the national cloud policy, the DPIA obligation, and the SLM Rijk agreements.

Core Responsibilities

Design and integrate a modern Microsoft 365 hybrid workplace, producing project-start and high-level architecture designs and guiding migration and management teams through delivery. Translate government architecture and security requirements into technical designs, ensure compliance, and resolve integration challenges between cloud workplace services and legacy on-premises environments.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least three years of recent Microsoft 365 workplace architecture experience and have designed and guided the implementation of at least two workplace concepts for organizations with at least 1,000 workstations. They must hold a valid TOGAF or ArchiMate certificate, have recent experience applying BIO and NORA or EAR in government or semi-government, and have C1-level Dutch; a relevant bachelor's degree and current Microsoft workplace certification are preferred.