Job
- Level
- Senior
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- Software
- Employment Type
- Part Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
As an Enterprise Architect, you will shape the IT architecture through strategic planning, developing standards and governance, and working on transformation initiatives to ensure efficiency and scalability.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a (Senior) Enterprise Architect, you actively shape the strategic development of our IT landscape at the group level - one of the largest and most complex IT landscapes in European retail (several thousand applications, across countries and domains).
- You connect business and IT strategy and translate them into clear architectural target images, guidelines, and transformation initiatives.
- In this role, you will work closely with executives, departments, and architects to ensure that our IT landscape remains efficient, scalable, and future-proof.
- You understand Enterprise Architecture as a shaping and enabling force – close to product and platform teams, modern and pragmatic, providing real value to the teams rather than just documentation.
- You are working on key issues such as: How do we develop our system landscape in line with strategic business goals? How do we establish standards and reusability across domains? How do we manage transformation in a complex, mature IT landscape?
- You are contributing to one of the largest and most diverse IT landscapes in German retail - with a direct impact on core business processes along the entire value chain.
- You derive architectural target images and transformation paths from the corporate and IT strategy.
- You define architecture principles, standards, and governance, linking binding guidelines with enabling teams.
- You structure the IT landscape (e.g., Capability Maps and Application/Technology Portfolio views) and make dependencies and areas for action transparent - with a focus on management and decision-making, not just documentation.
- You design architecture that is measurable and controllable through metrics & analytics (e.g., transparency regarding complexity, dependencies, time-to-market, or modernization level).
- You prepare strategic technology and investment decisions and support them in close collaboration with management and relevant stakeholders.
- You work with domain and solution architects and ensure coherence across all levels.
- You actively develop the EAM methodology, tools, and community.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Clear EA focus - not just solution/data architecture and architecture as a pure documentation task.
- Ability to translate business goals into structured architectural decisions.
- Solid knowledge of EAM methods (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate) and in Application-/Technology-Portfolio Management.
- Current understanding of architecture with a product orientation, platform approaches, and modern organizational models (e.g., Team Topologies).
- Strong in communication and moderation at various levels, including in management contexts.
Experience
- Several years of experience as an Enterprise Architect or in a comparable strategic architecture role.
- Experience in handling complex, distributed system landscapes and transformations.
- Experience with EAM tools as well as structured decision-making preparation.
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What we offer
- Your life-work integration through flexible working hours, remote work, 30 days of vacation + regional cultural days, time-off models (sabbatical, caregiving leave, etc.), and company kindergarten.
- More time for yourself - take advantage of the opportunity to have up to two additional weeks of free time per year; individually planned, flexibly redeemable in consultation with your team.
- We invest in your future. With your annual training budget of approximately €2,000, you can focus on developing your individual skills.
- So stay curious and gather new input for yourself and all of us on our own learning platform, the "IT Learning Hub," at industry conferences, in technical books, or in one of the many free workshops from our Learning Canvas.
- Updates for you on in-house workshops and events, such as the hackathon and tech talks, as well as weekly stand-ups, regular tech all-hands, and open door formats.
- Your degree of influence over the choice of your hardware (MacBooks, ThinkPads) and operating system (MacOS, Linux, Windows) - look forward to modern IT equipment as well as a broad and innovative tech stack.
- Your impact, because you develop applications and services for millions of people - with over 1 billion data records daily, on more than 6 million phones, 32,000 cash registers, or in 7,300 markets.
- Your relaxed commute with the discounted Deutschlandticket, a Jobrad, and parking spaces right in front of the door.
- Our networks such as DITO - different together, SHINE, f.ernetzt, WomEngineers @REWE digital, and Women's Drive make us a vibrant community and support you in your personal development.
- Advantages of a corporation for you, e.g., in the form of discounts at REWE, PENNY, toom Baumarkt, and the DERTOUR Group, comprehensive healthcare benefits, support for your retirement provision through asset-building benefits and the REWE Pensionskasse, special benefits such as holiday and Christmas bonuses, and much more.
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Benefits
Health, Fitness & Fun
Work-Life-Integration
- 🚌Excellent Traffic Connections
- 🐕Animals Welcome
- 🏝Extra Holidays
- 🏠Home Office
- ⏸Educational Leave/Sabbatical
- ⏰Flexible Working Hours
- 🅿️Employee Parking Space
Higher Take-Home Pay
- 🏝️Summer and Christmas Bonus
- 📱Company Phone for Private Use
- 💻Company Notebook for Private Use
- 👴🏻Company Retirement Provision
- 🛍Employee Discount
- 🚎Public Transport Allowance
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About Your Employer
REWE Digital GmbH
As drivers of the digital innovation of the REWE Group, we are responsible for all strategic online activities of one of Europe's leading trade and tourism companies. Our most important brands at home and abroad include REWE, Penny, Billa, Merkur, BIPA, ITS , DER Touristik Meier's World Travel Jahn Reisen and Toom Hardware Store.
Description
- Company Type
- Digital Agency
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Enterprise Architect
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
