Enterprise Architect

• Principal Enterprise Architect | Enterprise Software
• Location: Germany | Remote with travel to customer sites (Munich, Hamburg, Berlin hubs)
• Employment tye: Permanent | €150-220k total package
• Language skills: Native or business-fluent German plus fluent English

Sponsorship: We are unable to support sponsorship for this position.

The opportunity

A Principal Enterprise Architect role at the sharp end of a global software leader's transformation practice, where enterprise architecture is a premium service the customer pays for, and one that has to win against the major global consultancies.

You will own the target state, govern the decisions that matter, and be accountable for the business value the architecture actually realises, not just the diagrams it produces.

About our client

A global enterprise software vendor with a customer-facing professional services practice, delivering complex transformation and architecture programmes for large organisations.

Here, enterprise architecture is a chargeable, senior-led service in its own right: sold through pre-sales and delivery and competing directly with the major consultancies, rather than sitting behind a software licence.

The team in Germany is deliberately lean today, so this is a build-and-lead opportunity at enterprise architect level: the chance to take the reins on the German market, not a seat on a crowded bench.

• What you'll be doing
• Leading enterprise architecture on paid transformation engagements, from pre-sales through delivery and adoption: owning the target state, transition plans and decommissioning roadmaps with clear sequencing, decision points and risk controls.
• Owning architecture governance and assurance: chairing the forums, setting the standards, and holding delivery to the decisions that protect long-term value.
• Defining and owning the value framework for every engagement: baselining the outcome, setting measurable targets, and proving the business value the architecture realises.

In a service the customer pays for, this is what wins and retains the work.

• Setting the strategic direction for AI, automation and agentic patterns: deciding where they create defensible value for the customer and designing the architecture to exploit them safely.
• Advising customer executives across industries, from pharmaceuticals to manufacturing, with the credibility to challenge, give pushback and frame risk in front of C-level.
• Acting as the senior enterprise architecture presence for the German market, shaping how the practice grows and feeding delivery learning back into future pursuits.

What we're looking for

• Demonstrable enterprise architecture leadership on large-scale transformations, from pre-sales through delivery and adoption, with quantified outcomes you can point to: cost removed, revenue enabled, risk reduced, time-to-value shortened.
• A track record of building and applying value realisation frameworks, not just producing target-state diagrams.

You can show, concretely, how you baselined value, tracked it and proved it landed.

For this role, that is the single clearest differentiator.

• Deep, pragmatic command of TOGAF and lifecycle-based architecture governance in complex enterprise environments, applied rather than quoted.
• A genuine strategic grasp of AI, automation and agentic models and their architectural implications, evidenced by real decisions you have made or shaped.
• The presence to advise and challenge C-level across different industries, giving pushback and framing risk without disappearing into technical detail.
• Native or business-fluent German plus fluent English. Other European languages are a plus.

Why join?

• A rare chance to take the senior enterprise architecture reins for the German market in a growing practice, with room to shape it rather than inherit it.
• Enterprise-scale, cross-industry work across pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and beyond.
• Real ownership of governance and value in a role that generates revenue, not a back-office documentation seat.
• A market leader investing heavily in AI, where you help decide how it is applied rather than reacting to it.

How to apply

If this Principal Enterprise Architect role is of interest, apply now or contact the team at Entasis Partners for a confidential conversation.

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