As the Enterprise Architect, you define the overall architecture target-state direction for TVH. You make sure business and IT strategy, operating model choices and technology evolution translate into coherent architectural guardrails that enable sustainable change. 
You ensure that all digital initiatives across the company are moving in the same direction by setting clear rules and standards. Instead of getting involved in the daily coding or technical delivery, you focus on ensuring TVH is "building the right things".

Your role and responsibilities 

Architecture Vision, Strategy and Innovation

• Define, maintain, and communicate TVH’s Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Enterprise Target Architecture across business, application, data, and technology layers.

• Establish and evolve the Enterprise Architecture Principles and guardrails that all architecture decisions and solution designs across the enterprise must follow.

• Ensure architecture decisions are aligned with TVH’s enterprise capability model and strategic ambition.

Portfolio Alignment, Roadmaps and Advisory

• Own and manage the multi-year Enterprise Architecture Roadmap, linking architectural investments to business outcomes.

• Weigh in on and assess strategic initiatives for architectural fit, value, risk, and portfolio alignment.

• Act as a trusted advisor to IT and business stakeholders. Make cost, risk, complexity, and dependency impacts explicit for management.

Strategic Steering and Board Participation

• Chair the Enterprise Architecture Board (EAB) on a monthly, quarterly, and annual cadence to govern target architectures and resolve cross-domain conflicts.

• Participate on the Solution Architecture Board (SAB) to review solution adherence to enterprise standards.Make strategic platform decisions and enterprise-level build vs. buy choices in collaboration with the Technology Architect, including evaluating new technology categories not in the TVH catalogue.

• Spend approximately 90% of your time on strategic steering and continuous architecture, and 10% on project-specific design work

Practice Leadership

• Directly manage, coach, and develop the Domain Architects across key business areas.

• Provide strategic direction and quality oversight to Solution, Technology, Security, Data, and Integration Architects.

• Drive content accuracy for enterprise target architectures and capability models in LeanIX and Confluence. 

• Own and mature the Enterprise Architecture Governance Framework, tracking practice maturity over time.

How to succeed / Your profile 

• Master's degree in a relevant field (IT, engineering, business informatics) or equivalent through experience.

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise-grade IT, including several years operating at the enterprise or cross-domain level.

• Proven experience defining and governing enterprise architecture within a complex, multi-domain organization using frameworks like TOGAF.

• Experience chairing or actively participating in senior architecture governance boards (e.g., EAB/SAB structures).

• Strong analytical, decision-making, and stakeholder communication skills.

• Demonstrated people management experience, with a track record of leading, coaching, and developing senior architectural talent.

• Experience with enterprise architecture repository tooling, specifically LeanIX.

• Experience with Confluence and Jira.

• TOGAF certification and experience utilizing organizational maturity models.

• Experience working in a manufacturing, distribution, or similarly complex global organization.

• Fluent in English, knowledge of Dutch is a strong asset

What's in it for you 

You will become part of a people-oriented company where your well-being really matters. Flexible working hours, work from home possibilities, 20 days holiday and 12 WTR days within a 40-hour week. At our headquarters you will also discover our TVH Park, a green area where you can move around and have the possibility to relax, meet or have lunch. Furthermore, we also offer: 

• An attractive salary package with extra-legal benefits such as group and hospitalization insurance, luncheon vouchers, corporate restaurant, ... 

• An exciting position in an international company with a family atmosphere where people are at the center. 

• You are part of a dynamic entrepreneurial team that is fast-growing and at the center of the transformation.  

• You arrive in an innovative, progressive and technological environment. 

• Numerous opportunities for personal development, among other things through permanent guidance and professional (internal/external) training courses. 

• Fun afterworks and other optional events (e.g. TVH Kaffee). 

People are at our heart 

TVH is a global business with a family atmosphere, where people are at the center. We value clarity, mutual respect, kindness and open communication. Our people are down-to-earth, easy to work and engage with. We welcome differences and celebrate new ideas.  

About TVH 

TVH is a parts specialist for quality parts and accessories for material handling, industrial vehicles, and construction and agricultural equipment. Working at TVH is opting for a company that excels as an international market leader and is well-known for its unstoppable craving for innovation. 
 
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