Role

The Enterprise ICT Architect – Organization and Transformation Architecture guides the SFPD in designing a future-oriented organizational model and ensures that the organizational transformation coherently aligns with the enterprise and ICT architecture. The assignment includes, among other things:

• Completing, updating, and validating the existing organizational analysis, including organizational, governance, information, and ICT dependencies.
• Mapping overlapping tasks, authorities, and responsibilities, as well as bottlenecks impacting processes, data, applications, digital services, and ICT governance.
• Developing and comparing scenarios for the future organizational model, with impact analysis on business capabilities, end-to-end processes, information flows, applications, and ongoing ICT initiatives.
• Facilitating strategic workshops with the Executive Committee and the involved directorates, aimed at supported decision-making.
• Developing a target organizational model, an organizational structure, and an organizational chart, including clear responsibilities, authorities, decision rights, and governance principles.
• Aligning the target organization with the enterprise architecture, architectural principles, ICT governance, and the digital transformation roadmap of the SFPD.
• Translating the chosen target structure into an implementation program with workstreams, dependencies, architectural prerequisites, risks, and decision points.
• Identifying and describing the necessary organizational and ICT projects in the applicable SFPD templates.
• Creating and maintaining an integrated implementation roadmap and a program plan for change management, communication, risk management, and planning.
• Advising on stakeholder engagement, change approach, and securing the new governance and architecture.

Phasing and deliverables

Phase 1 – Finalizing and validating the analysis

• Validated organizational analysis with inventory of organizational, regulatory, process, information, and ICT bottlenecks.
• Impact overview of the current organization on governance, digital capabilities, application support, and ongoing ICT initiatives.

Phase 2 – Developing and aligning the organizational choices

• Substantiated scenarios and proposal for an organizational model.
• Target organizational structure and new organizational chart.
• Enterprise architecture impact analysis and documentation of the choices made.

Phase 3 – Preparing for implementation

• Integrated organization and ICT transformation roadmap.
• Program plan with workstreams, dependencies, risks, change management, and planning.
• Description of the necessary implementation projects in the SFPD templates.

Collaboration and reporting

• Structuro Service of the Personnel & Organization department.
• Head of Strategy & Performance of Pension Navigate.
• Head of Enterprise Architecture of Pension Navigate.
• CIO
• Members of the Executive Committee.
• Relevant business, data, application, security, and infrastructure architects and ICT project managers.

The consultant reports directly to the Administrator-General and is operationally managed by the head of the Pension Navigate department. Formal validation moments are organized during each phase. Final validation and prioritization fall under the authority of the Executive Committee.

The workplace is Brussels. We offer the possibility to work part-time remotely.

Technical and generic competencies

• At least 10 years of demonstrable professional experience as enterprise architect, business architect, ICT transformation architect, or in an equivalent architecture role.
• Demonstrable experience with at least three organization-wide transformation or restructuring programs in organizations with a minimum of 1,000 employees, of which at least one in an organization of approximately 2,000 employees or more.
• Experience with enterprise architecture, business architecture, target operating models, capability mapping, governance, and translating into ICT roadmaps.
• Experience conducting impact analyses across processes, information, applications, technology, and governance.
• Extensive experience guiding executive management teams on strategic organizational and ICT issues.
• Proven expertise in stakeholder management, consensus building, workshop facilitation, and change management within complex organizations.
• Sufficient technical background to engage constructively and substantively with enterprise, business, data, application, security, and infrastructure architects.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills, autonomy, integrity, results orientation, and a pragmatic, implementation-focused approach.
• Plus points: experience in the public sector, knowledge of pensions and the Belgian social security system, and certification in enterprise architecture, change management, or project management.

Selection criteria

Criteria used when screening CVs and during interviews. For the 'Expert' level, at least 10 years of experience in the key competencies is required.

In addition to the CV, a brief slide deck is requested with:

1. a high-level vision on the coherence between the target organizational model and enterprise/ICT architecture;
2. a proposed approach for the three phases;
3. an example of an integrated organization and ICT transformation roadmap; and
4. the governance and validation moments proposed by the candidate.