{"id":20343,"date":"2023-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/general\/846-lead-architect-pi-roadmap-agile-release-train-art-kanban-hybride-den-bosch-freelance\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:47:46","slug":"846-lead-architect-pi-roadmap-agile-release-train-art-kanban-hybride-den-bosch-freelance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/nl\/publications\/freelance\/software-ontwikkelaar\/846-lead-architect-pi-roadmap-agile-release-train-art-kanban-hybride-den-bosch-freelance\/","title":{"rendered":"#846 Lead architect (PI roadmap \/ Agile release train ART \/ Kanban) – Hybride \/ Den Bosch *freelance*"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/h4>\n

We are looking for an experienced (interim or freelance) Lead architect.

<\/span>Location: hybride (Den Bosch 1 \u2013 2 days)
<\/span><\/span><\/span>Period: 6+ months (32-40 hr\/week)
<\/span><\/span>Project start date: ASAP
<\/span><\/span>Extra: English speaking candidates welcome<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\r\n

Organization<\/h4>\n

Lage international enterprise active in the engergy sector.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\r\n

Function<\/h4>\n

Objective of the job:
<\/span>– Defining and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision for an Agile Release Train (ART) to ensure all applications in scope of the ART are and stay fit for their intended purposes.
<\/span>– You play a critical role in guiding and aligning teams in the ART towards a shared technical direction. And the same goes for teams from our partners in elaborating the system and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and using & improving the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
<\/span>– In your DevOps architectural vision for your ART, cost efficiency and maintainability are balanced with the business strategy and goals.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\r\n

Requirements<\/h4>\n

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Activities
<\/span>1. Business Analysis & Architecture
<\/span>– Work with Product Managers and Product Owners to translate business requirements into features and to create a PI roadmap<\/b> (Product increment) and architectural runway<\/b>.
<\/span>– Responsible for defining enabler features required for execution of the Program Kanban<\/b> on both architectural and operational level.
<\/span>– Co-define Non-Functional Requirements<\/b> (NFRs) with business and IT stakeholders and enable privacy and security by design at feature level.
<\/span>– Responsible for defining the solution architecture<\/b> and the sizing of features of the Program Kanban.
<\/span>– Support SREs in their recommendations for landscape availability, stability and performance, translated into solution designs and promote them to the Product Managers, RTEs, Product Owners and DevOps teams.
<\/span>– Engage<\/b> with infrastructure stakeholders to ensure infra relevant aspects are taken into account when designing DevOps architecture guidelines & solutions for an ART.
<\/span>– Steers the architectural team of an ART, accountable for all architectural aspects in the ART (including infrastructure).
<\/strong><\/span>– Architect with Agility in mind: ensuring that DevOps practices<\/b> (things like CI\/CD pipeline, monitoring, alerting etc.) can be embedded in the current and future architecture.
<\/span>– Manages the architectural debt<\/b> of the ART in coordination with the Product Manager and Release Train Engineer

<\/span>2. Delivery
<\/span>– Support implementation of features from the Program Kanban.
<\/span>– Provide oversight in and foster the principles of Built-In Quality, Shift Left<\/strong> and Team & Technical Agility.
<\/span>– Define, explore, and support the implementation of ART Enablers to evolve solution behavior, working directly with DevOps teams to implement them.
<\/span>– Participate in SAFe events<\/strong> like Program Increment (PI) Planning and Pre- and Post-PI Planning, System and Solution Demos, and Inspect and Adapt events.
<\/span>– Advises product manager and RTE on technical debt

3. Design
<\/span>– Responsible for defining systems and their interfaces and analyze technical trade-offs to guide solution design decisions.
<\/span>– Work with Enterprise Architect, to develop, analyze, split, and realize the implementation of epics into features<\/strong> and align with the architectural vision.
<\/span>– Work with the Competence Leads to define the system on competence level in Communities of Practice.

<\/span>Work\/thinking level and experience
<\/span>1. Academic background and thinking level (BSc.) with education in computer science, engineering, informatics or equivalent technical fields.
<\/span>2. 6-8 years<\/b> of relevant experience in information Technology, knowledge of technological developments and trends in the industry in a (comparable) dynamic business environment.
<\/span>3. Excellent knowledge of IT architecture, from solution architecture till supporting infra systems<\/b> along with demonstrated expertise in conceptualizing future ready solution designs.
<\/span>4. Senior in stakeholder management<\/b>.
<\/span>5. Fluent communication skills in English, Dutch is important and German is a pro.
<\/span>6. Experience in functionally leading a group of people (>50)<\/b>.
<\/span>7. Knowledgeable in 2 or more functional business domains.

<\/span>Other characteristics
<\/span>Complexity
<\/span>– Creating innovative solutions which help meet the business and IT goals and enable Essent to become market leader.
<\/span>– Bringing in quality, privacy and security by design mentality and enable it with solution architecture.
<\/span>– Thinking end-to-end solutions which bring best value to the customer and reduce time to market of services and products.
<\/span>– Works across different technology stacks, reaching the complete customer base of Essent and its brands.

Impact
<\/span>– The role drives the essential balance between speedy delivery and operational excellence.
<\/span>– Involves stakeholder interaction at management level and ability to work with and control budgets.
<\/span>– Breaking down enterprise level architectural choices to team level deliverables.
<\/span>– Ensures that the technology choices are future ready and economically justified.

Nature of the contacts
<\/span>– Works with the Enterprise Architect to ensure organizational guidelines are reflected in the team driven solution delivery.
<\/span>– Works with the Release Train Engineer and Product Manager for capacity planning balance between delivering new functionality and support, maintenance and upgrade activities.
<\/span>– On a tactical level interacts on license management and the System Team and Senior DevOps Engineers for implementation of the architectural runway.
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Information<\/h4>\n

Michel Koning 06-34657362<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\r\n

Application<\/h4>\n

If you are interested in this freelance role please send us:
– your up-to-date CV (word format)
– short motivation based on the job description (!)
– your indicationrate
via the button below or directly by mail to <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span>michel.koning@optimizit.nl.

<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b>For more information please call us on 085 \u2013 06 53 646 or 06 – 34657362.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span>
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We are looking for an experienced (interim or freelance) Lead architect.

<\/span>Location: hybride (Den Bosch 1 \u2013 2 days)
<\/span><\/span><\/span>Period: 6+ months (32-40 hr\/week)
<\/span><\/span>Project start date: ASAP
<\/span><\/span>Extra: English speaking candidates welcome<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,108,143],"tags":[126,609,112],"class_list":["post-20343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freelance","category-publications","category-software-ontwikkelaar","tag-freelance","tag-hybride-den-bosch-freelance","tag-nederland","functiongroups-freelance","functions-software-ontwikkelaar","worklocation-hybride-den-bosch-freelance","country-nederland","procedure-detachering","business-line-standaard","employment-contract-vast-tijdelijk","hours-per-week-121","pubid-list-623","pubid-list-624"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dilaco.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}