VESTAS - Senior Enterprise Platform Architect

Are you ready to help drive Vestas’ future Enterprise Platform landscape to create the digital core that will be part of ensuring the company’s continued leadership within the dynamic and rapidly growing renewable energy solutions industry?  If so, this is a challenging and exciting opportunity to lead this journey together with Vestas’ Head of Enterprise Platforms.

Finance > Global IT > Enterprise Platforms

Vestas is changing the way we think about and utilize information technology, and is focused on finding new ways to increase agility and value as part of powering our profitable growth strategy to lead the global energy transition.  Change on this scale will not happen overnight, however Vestas is transforming and innovating its technology landscape and adopting platform approaches to ensure our Vestas Digital Ecosystem can deliver next generation services to our customers, employees and partners. 

The Vestas Platform Journey is being built on proven, leading technology from SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce, PTC and Dassault, and the overall objective is to integrate and manage this landscape towards a more open, pace-layered, and services-oriented ‘digital core’ to power both agility and reliability in E2E solutions for years to come.  Other key objectives on the journey are customer and user centricity, enabling maximum value from Vestas data, and always ensuring the right level of security and availability.

Responsibilities

As Senior Enterprise Platform Architect you will be the primary responsible for helping to shape and architect the future of our Enterprise Platform landscape to enable the ongoing and accelerating digitalization of Vestas.  Working with a team of engineers, architects & EA, you will be accountable for:

• Defining and securing approval of the overall Enterprise Platform landscape vision and strategic to-be architecture, together with the prioritized objectives to be achieved over time
• Driving the overall road-mapping of the Enterprise Platform landscape, including related capabilities to sustainably enable pace-layering, services-orientation, and cross-Vestas reuse & simplification
• Setting requirements to other domains while securing integrated plans to deliver on E2E value related to customer & user centricity, business process enablement, data & insight, and security
• Guiding domain Architects in business portfolio road-mapping (2021 investment of 75m+EUR) as needed to ensure alignment & promote synergies with Enterprise Platform strategic direction
• Promoting & anchoring the needed approaches and ways-of-working, also cross-organizationally, to ensure the successful ongoing delivery of the Enterprise Platforms roadmap

Qualifications

To succeed in this position and help Vestas drive this important element of its IT & digital transformation forward, we believe you will need:

• extensive experience within EA, Enterprise Platforms, heterogeneous Digital Platforms or closely related, with a successful track-record of driving transformational change via modern architectures
• Significant experience & expertise within most of the following:
  • Selected platforms within Vestas’ current Enterprise landscape, esp. SAP, Microsoft & PTC
  • Enterprise integration strategies & architectures, incl. in hybrid environments
  • Domain-based service-oriented architectures, incl. API-mediation layers
  • Enterprise Information Architecture
  • Product-oriented platform management as a discipline
• Deep technical background in selected areas, e.g. from an early career as a developer  
• Time in management consulting considered a significant plus
• English at a high-level of fluency both written & oral required

Overall, we expect to have grown from a technical position into leading architectural roles where you have made your mark driving architectural transformation at the enterprise level.

Competencies

This is a highly visible role that will require a special mix of technical acumen, leadership skills, and stakeholder evangelism to challenge the status quo and lead the Vestas Enterprise Platform landscape into the future.  Hence, your competencies will be examined just as closely as your experience and we expect you will be:

• A senior trusted partner profile accomplished at building internal & external bridges based on true collaboration & shared results
• A strong communicator and change agent able to see & sell a bigger / better picture at all levels of the organizational by mapping it out and bringing others along on the journey
• Unreasonably persistent in promoting your vision all while listening closely to others to understand when they might be on to something important
• Someone who comes to work with a smile to make a difference and have fun doing it

Basically, you’re known for being able to bring people together to create a compelling vision of what needs to be done, and for being able to sell this vision to those that might not see it at first, all the while providing the leadership, direction and ‘stick-to-it-iveness’ to actually make it happen.

What we offer

An exciting enterprise IT/OT/digital transformation is getting underway at Vestas and you will have a front-seat and leadership role in architecting and driving key elements of the digital core necessary for Vestas to continue to lead the energy transition for the benefit of the planet.  Working with talented colleagues from across the company, you will experience a forward-looking & dynamic ‘can-do’ culture that, even if sometimes a half-step ahead of itself, always finds the passion & resources necessary to deliver.  As a company, our core values are Accountability, Collaboration, Simplicity and Passion as we lead the way to a sustainable future for generations to come.

Additional information

Primary work location is Aarhus, Denmark, and you can expect up to 30 travel days per year.  For more information regarding this opportunity please contact Lars Dolmer Hansen, Head of Enterprise Platforms, at +45 21 91 97 50.

Please apply online no later than 11th June 2021:

https://careers.vestas.com/job/Aarhus-N-Senior-Enterprise-Platform-Architect-8200/666979601/

About Vestas

Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We design, manufacture, install, and service wind turbines across the globe, and with more than 105 GW of wind turbines in 80 countries, we have installed more wind power than anyone else. 

Through our industry-leading smart data capabilities and unparalleled more than 86 GW of wind turbines under service, we use data to interpret, forecast, and exploit wind resources and deliver best-in-class wind power solutions. 

Together with our customers, Vestas’ more than 24,500 employees are bringing the world sustainable energy solutions to power a bright future.

Vestas promotes a diverse workforce which embraces all social identities and is free of any discrimination. We commit to create and sustain an environment that acknowledges and harvests different experiences, skills and perspectives, and gives everyone equal access to opportunity. 

We invite you to learn more about Vestas by visiting our website at www.vestas.com and following us on our social media channels.