Enterprise Architect (m-f-d)

The Scope

At Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), technology plays a critical role in enabling transparency, trust, and impact across global forest supply chains. We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect who combines deep architectural expertise with a genuine passion for sustainability and purpose-driven work.

You will operate at the heart of FSC’s digital transformation – establishing, designing and governing our future state enterprise-wide architecture to support our certification systems, global collaboration, and long-term data, analytics and technology strategy. Working in a multinational, mission-driven environment, you will provide leadership, and influence both strategic and operational decisions while future-proofing FSC’s technology landscape while ensuring that we take advantage of shifts in the technology landscape driven by AI and related advancements.

If you enjoy aligning enterprise architecture with business needs, shaping complex systems, advising senior business and technology stakeholders, and building scalable, secure architectures while maintaining high levels of performance, governance, and compliance to make a real-world difference - this role will be a perfect fit for you.

Main Roles & Responsibilities

As our Enterprise Architect, you will:

• Design, implement, and continuously evolve the Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) and Enterprise Architecture practiceincluding architecture governance, KPIs, committee structures, and regular reporting to technology leadership
• Define and maintain enterprise-wide architecture principles, guidelines, and standards , covering business, application, data, and infrastructure layers
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior management and technology leadership on architectural, digital, and technology strategy decisions
• Develop and maintain a future-oriented enterprise architecture roadmap , aligned with FSC’s corporate and IT strategy
• Translate strategic business requirements into cost-effective, scalable, and standardized architectural patterns to reduce fragmentation, and drive automation, self-service and re-usability
• Own and validate architecture blueprints (business, application, data, and technology), including EAM tools, modeling, integration and data services standards, and best practices
• Monitor market and emerging technology trends, proactively identifying opportunities and potential partners to evolve FSC’s platforms, tools, and development approaches
• Assess architectural maturity and technical debt across the organization and independently propose improvement as well as ground breaking initiatives
• Ensure architectural compliance and alignment across internal product design, engineering and analytics teams and external technology service providers and solution providers
• Represent the architecture function in cross-functional working groups and steering committees

Your profile

To succeed in this role, you bring:

• A degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Engineering, or a comparable field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Strong expertise in Enterprise Architecture Management , including common frameworks, modern data architecture principles, and methodologies (e.g. TOGAF; certification highly desirable)
• Curiority and a holistic understanding of business, application, data, and infrastructure architecture
• The ability to simplify complexity and communicate architectural concepts and their rationale clearly to diverse stakeholder groups
• Proven experience leading or contributing to complex IT initiatives, ideally in agile or scaled-agile environments (e.g. SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale)
• 8+ years of experience as an Enterprise Architect, including 4+ years in architecture or technical leadership roles (e.g., Chief Architect or similar)
• Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills, paired with strong leadership and communication capabilities
• A proactive, independent, and structured way of working in complex organizational environments

Why us?

• Be part of a globally recognized organization at the forefront of sustainable forestry and contribute to the mission to help protect the world’s forests.
• Play an active role in the FSC global community of 400+ forest stewards who come together in-person at least once a year.
• Benefit from cross-cultural collaboration and networking opportunities by working in a dynamic, inclusive, and diverse international culture with over 60 nationalities represented under one roof.
• Benefit from work-life balance with our hybrid working structure.
• 30 vacation days yearly.
• Regional transportation ticket.
• Breakfast bars, coffee, tea.
• Take part in learning lunches.
• Celebrate together festivals from different cultures.

The Fine Print

• Location: Bonn, Germany. • Working Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week. • Duration of Employment: Temporary contract – 2 years (extension possible, subject to satisfactory performance). • Starting Date: As soon as possible. • Travel: Some travel may be required. We will confirm receipt of your application. Should you not receive a confirmation of receipt please check your spam filter. Please be informed, that by applying for this position you automatically accept our Data Protection Information on processing your personal data. We are looking forward to your application!

About us

Welcome to FSC!

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a globally recognized non-profit organization at the forefront of promoting sustainable forestry. With over 150 million hectares of certified forests and a trusted reputation among NGOs, consumers, and businesses, FSC is leading the way in ensuring the long-term health and resilience of the world’s forests.