Senior Enterprise Architect (EU Data & Interoperability)

About the Position

Sopra Steria offers tailored, end-to-end corporate technology and software solutions to help clients make bold choices and deliver results. With more than 51,000 colleagues in 30 countries, we rank as Europe’s leading digital solutions provider. We are looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect to help shape the technical and functional architecture of the Simpl Programme, a strategic European initiative focused on enabling secure, interoperable, and future-ready data spaces.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Definition: Define, maintain, and evolve the functional and technical architecture for Simpl-Open, including component architectures, data flows, interfaces, and deployment models.
• Architecture Governance: Ensure architectural consistency across the programme and contribute to architecture principles, standards, design decisions, and lifecycle governance.
• EU Interoperability: Align architectural choices with relevant European interoperability standards and frameworks, including CIM, SAREF, AS4, EIRA, and eGovERA.
• Programme Collaboration: Work closely with the Simpl Programme Support Office and other programme stakeholders on quality assurance and lifecycle governance, incorporating relevant programme guidelines and development standards.
• Ecosystem Integration: Support the integration of Simpl services with DOME and relevant European initiatives such as GAIA-X, EuroHPC, and AI Factories.
• Security & Privacy: Embed Security-by-Design and Privacy-by-Design principles into architecture decisions and contribute to alignment with applicable requirements such as GDPR, eIDAS, the Data Act, and relevant cybersecurity requirements.
• Federated Architecture: Promote open standards, modular building blocks, federated architecture principles, connectors, and trust frameworks that enable interoperability across distributed ecosystems.
• Technical Guidance: Provide architectural guidance to technical and delivery teams, assessing solution designs and helping resolve complex architecture and integration challenges.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate architecture discussions and workshops with EU stakeholders, contractors, technical experts, and governance bodies.
• Architecture Communication: Translate complex architecture decisions into clear recommendations, documentation, and roadmaps for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or a comparable technical leadership role, ideally within complex, distributed, or multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong understanding of federated architectures, data spaces, cloud-to-edge environments, and interoperability principles.
• Experience with architecture frameworks and modelling approaches such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, and BPMN.
• Knowledge of European interoperability frameworks, open standards, or open-source ecosystems is a strong advantage.
• Experience designing solutions with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements in mind, including familiarity with GDPR, NIS2, and ISO 27001.
• Understanding of multi-cloud environments, such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, as well as container orchestration and API-driven integration.
• Experience working with Agile delivery models, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices and governance.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain architecture decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Professional working proficiency in English. Knowledge of French or Dutch is an advantage.

Nice to Have

• Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud architecture certifications, ISO 27001, and CISSP.

We Offer

• A competitive salary and an indefinite contract
• A company car or mobility budget
• Comprehensive insurance coverage (hospitalisation, outpatient care, and group insurance)
• 32 days paid time off (20 days + 12 bonus days)
• Laptop, phone, and mobile subscription
• Continuous learning opportunities through the Sopra Steria Academy to support your career development

About the Company

Sopra Steria is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, ancestry, nationality, color, family or medical leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.

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