Salary: 45.000 - 70.000 € per year Requirements: I am looking for candidates with the following qualifications: An academic background with a focus on (applied) IT or equivalent. Professional experience as an enterprise architect or in a similar role with a focus on business and application architecture. Proactive, independent, and hands-on working methods, with the ability to drive decisions across teams. Excellent analytical and abstraction abilities, with a knack for seeing the bigger picture. Strong communication skills, able to engage in a transparent, target-group-oriented manner. Experience working in agile team configurations that promote continuous, close collaboration among all relevant stakeholders. Excellent, practical, and preferably certified knowledge of architecture frameworks (SAFe, TOGAF). Profound knowledge of architecture documentation tools and methods, such as LeanIX, ARC42, and ArchiMate. Responsibilities: In this role, I will need you to: Develop and conduct measures for application portfolio management, always aiming at rationalizing and optimizing our application landscape. Drive decisions on application rationalization and track fulfillment. Identify pain points in our application landscape and initiate guiding measures for application assessment and improvement. Develop or contribute to architecture guardrails (e.g., principles, reference or target architectures) and ensure their operationalization. Establish architecture methods (e.g., for architecture planning, documentation, and value measurement) as a vital link for a successful digital transformation. Manage the representation of business capabilities and applications in our EAM repository meta model, and initiate measures to improve data quality. Establish and maintain beneficial relationships with relevant stakeholders inside and outside of EA (e.g., domains, countries, project portfolio management, and IT Service Management). Technologies: Architect ArchiMate EAM Mobile SAP TOGAF More: At ALDI DX, we develop innovative digital products and services for our employees and customers across 11 ALDI SÜD countries and over 7,300 ALDI SÜD stores worldwide. We strive to drive digital value, offering great quality at the lowest price, and we are guided by the core values of simplicity, reliability, and responsibility. Our team and performance are at the heart of everything we do. I also want to mention some desirable extras: proficiency in the German language would be a plus. In return for your contributions, we offer: - Partial mobile working within Germany. - Access to state-of-the-art technologies. - Attractive remuneration along with holiday and Christmas bonuses. - Opportunities for future-oriented training and development. - A modular onboarding process with a buddy system. - A corporate health management program. You will work with a tech stack that includes M365, LeanIX, SAP, ARC42, and ArchiMate.