Enterprise Architect Lead

Enterprise Architect

Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place. By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, we offer a broad portfolio of value-enhancing services and solutions integrated across the security value chain – from on-site services to advanced monitoring, comprehensive risk prediction and advisory services.

With around 322,000 employees in 44 markets, our innovative, holistic approach with local and global expertise makes us a trusted business partner to many of the world's best-known companies. Benefitting from almost nine decades of deep experience and guided by our values of integrity, vigilance, and helpfulness, we create sustainable value by helping our clients optimize their operations and protect what matters most - their people and assets.

Our goal is to leverage and centralize applications at the European level. To support this strategy, the Business Application IT team operates as a product-oriented IT organization. Delivery is structured around:

• Product Domains, accountable for product development and functional value.
• Roll-out Projects, responsible for large-scale, multi-country deployments and product implementation.

The Architecture team acts as the design authority and architectural backbone for business application, ensuring coherence, consistency, and sustainability of the European target IT architecture. The mission of the Architect within the Centre of Excellence is to translate business strategy into a coherent, secure, and scalable IT architecture, supporting multi-country roll-outs while managing complexity and technical debt.

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Enterprise Architect who can operate effectively in a complex, multicultural environment. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Defining and maintaining European target architecture.
• Governing all architecture decisions for European application.

You will manage a team of 4 people for the moment including Business Architect, PMO support, Solution Architect for 2 main products Oracle and WFM. You will coordinate and manage additional external consultants depending of the roadmap management.

Responsibilities include:

• Acting as the design authority for Business Applications within the North Star scope.
• Providing architectural direction and decision support to Product Domains and country roll-out initiatives.
• Reviewing and validating major application, integration, and platform design decisions.
• Ensuring adherence to European and Group Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and guardrails.
• Leading or supporting country-level architecture assessments (as-is, to-be, gap analysis).
• Identifying critical dependencies, constraints, and integration impacts for country deployments.
• Chairing or contributing to Country Assessment Forums and architectural design reviews.
• Ensuring architectural consistency and reuse across multi-country roll-outs.
• Contributing to the definition and evolution of the enterprise data model.
• Ensuring coherence and robustness of data flows, integrations, and master data management.
• Supporting end-to-end business process mapping from an architectural perspective.
• Working closely with Program Management, Product Owners, Service Delivery, and AMS partners and business.
• Contributing to the development of architecture standards, methods, and best practices.
• Actively supporting the maturity of architectural ways of working across the organization.

Requirements include:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10–15 years of IT experience.
• Strong background in enterprise, application, and integration architecture.
• Experience with large, multi-year, multi-country transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of back-office systems (ERP, Finance, HR, Workforce Management) and digitalisation.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF – LeanIX is a plus).
• Structured, pragmatic, and decisive approach.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate…