ICT Architect (Senior) - De Watergroep
Description
De Watergroep seeks an experienced senior OT Solution Architect to map and structure its existing OT landscape. The environment has evolved historically and contains multiple generations of technologies, brands and types. The purpose is to establish a reliable technical basis for defining the on-call service. The resulting architecture must show scope, complexity, dependencies, risks and the expertise needed to respond effectively to incidents.
The architect analyses existing documentation and validates information with internal staff, suppliers and other technical stakeholders. Targeted technical verification is required where existing information is incomplete, outdated or unreliable. The conceptual framework comprises Field Level, Control Level, Supervisory Level, Communication Level, Integration Level, Development & Configuration Level, and Access & Security Level. Architecture diagrams are produced in ArchiMate® at an abstraction level appropriate to diagnosis, intervention, recovery and escalation.
The architect reports to the Enterprise Architect and works closely with the Operations Systems and Process Automation Team (Team Exploitatie Systemen en Procesautomatisatie). The mission runs from 1 December 2026 to 30 November 2027 with a 55% work regime and an estimated 960 hours. Homeworking is possible, and workdays are agreed according to project needs and may vary weekly. The location is listed as Centrale Directie without a city, and candidate selection weights quality and price equally.
Top Reasons to Apply
Shape OT architecture
Improve incident resilience
Complex technology landscape
Collaborate with technical experts
Homeworking possible
Detailed Responsibilities and Skills
Additional Responsibilities
- Produce ArchiMate® architecture diagrams of the existing OT environment.
- Maintain the abstraction level needed for effective incident response, identifying systems, key dependencies and expertise for diagnosis, intervention, recovery or escalation.
- Record relevant systems and components individually and logically group comparable components where individual registration adds no value.
- Deliver a structured overview of the existing OT landscape according to the agreed architecture layers.
- Deliver an inventory of relevant OT technologies, devices and assets with characteristics needed for incident response.
- Deliver ArchiMate® diagrams showing key systems, communication links, integrations and technical dependencies.
- Deliver an overview of intervention prerequisites: development and configuration environments, software versions, licences, backups, access options and dependencies on suppliers or specialists.
- Deliver an overview of relevant missing, insufficiently reliable or unverified information.
- Report to the Enterprise Architect and collaborate closely with Team Exploitatie Systemen en Procesautomatisatie.
General skills
- At least 5 years at senior level in complex environments with incomplete, outdated or not fully reliable documentation.
- At least 5 years at senior level demonstrating good communication and collecting and validating information with different technical stakeholders.
- At least 5 years at senior level distinguishing technical detail from information actually needed for effective incident response.
- Dutch proficiency at European CEFR level C2; mandatory Yes criterion.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of business processes in general; Should have / Yes.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of project management facets: costs, timing, coordination, planning and estimates; Should have / Yes.
- Experience in the utilities sector; Should have / Yes.
Technical skills
- At least 5 years at senior level as a specialist architect in a specific domain (networking, security, server infrastructure, application architecture, ERP, ECM platforms, data warehouse and BI, etc.) or as an Enterprise Architect.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of modelling techniques (ArchiMate, TOGAF, UML, Sparx EA); mandatory Yes criterion.
- At least 5 years at senior level analysing and structuring existing OT architectures.
- At least 5 years at senior level in OT contexts.
- At least 5 years at senior level recognising technical dependencies and risks during incidents.
- At least 5 years at senior level translating technical information into clear architecture diagrams in ArchiMate®.
- Demonstrable knowledge across all domains and proven specialist architecture expertise in at least one domain (infrastructure, application, security, data, process, etc.); Should have / Yes.
- Experience with historically evolved existing OT landscapes; Should have / Yes. Also mentioned in the ideal profile without a mandatory label.
Tools
- Sparx EA is named within the mandatory modelling-techniques requirement alongside ArchiMate, TOGAF and UML; no separate proficiency threshold is specified.