Lead Enterprise Architect

In Materialise’s Staff department, we believe that meaningful impact starts with people and their expertise. If you’re passionate about shaping a strong, effective, and forward-looking organization, you’ll love being a part of this team. Through the knowledge and dedication of these teams, we’re creating value every day and building the foundation for long-term success.

What you will do

Enterprise architectureleadership

Define,own,and continuously evolve theEnterprise Architecture vision, target state, and principles

Maintainenterprise-widecapability mapsandtranslate them into architectural direction

Establish and enforce architectural guardrails to guide decision-making across teams

Ensure alignment between business strategy, IT strategy, and architecture evolution

Portfolio and investment alignment

Shape and support demand intake and portfolio prioritization from an architectural perspective

Define andmaintainthe architecture runway to enable business initiatives and support business agility

Ensure alignment between portfolio investments and target architecture

Adviseon trade-offs between business value, technical sustainability, and complexity

Domain-level engagement

Guide and coach domain architects, ensuring consistency across domains

Facilitate alignment across enterprise platforms and BU-specific solutions

Ensure solution designs contribute to an integrated and coherent enterprise landscape

For selected domains, act directly as a domain architect: creating roadmaps, maintaining standards, facilitating solution alignment

Integration and standards

Govern enterprisearchitecturestandardsand guardrails, ensuring interoperability, scalability, and security across IT and BU-delivered systems

Ensure end-to-endarchitectural alignment acrosscentralenterprisesystemsandBU-specific systems,enablingan integrated enterprise landscape

Embed non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, scalability, security, maintainability) by design, ensuring reliable, secure, and cost-effective operations

Solutionselectionleadership

Oversee solution evaluation processes for majorenterpriseand cross-BU systems

Ensure solutionselectiondecisions align with strategic roadmaps, architectural principles, and long‑term sustainability

Agile architecture enablement

Act as a seniorleader of the Architecture Enabling Team — embedding agile activitieswhere needed to supportdelivery:supporting teams in backlog refinement and solution design,participatinginPIPlanning andPreparation,shaping the architecture runway and enablers

Foster anagile, just‑enough architecture approachthat avoids stage‑gate delaysand heavy upfront designwhilemaintainingalignment with strategic direction

Your profile

At least 5 years of proven experience in enterprise‑level architecture leadership in complex, multi‑BU environments

Strong skills inbusiness capability modeling,architecture road mapping, andstrategic portfolio alignment

Strong facilitation skills; able to translate business goals into actionable design guardrails

Strong people and team leadership skills, with demonstrated experience in influencing, coaching, and aligning teams through non‑hierarchical influence as well as direct line management

Strong ability to influence senior business and IT stakeholders

Knowledge of agile frameworks (e.g., SAFe, LeSS) and their architectural roles

Good, professional communication skills English

What’s waiting for you

Work that matters

The technology we build at Materialise pushes the boundaries. You’ll find pride in building something that matters, whether you designed it, printed it, or shipped it. No matter your role, we unlock new possibilities to build a better and healthier world every day.

At Materialise, we expect you to think about the customer, not just the task. You push for better solutions and care about the difference your work makes.

A people‑centered space

When you join Materialise, you join a group of colleagues invested in you, not just your work. From your own team to a department across the world, you’ll find a sense of belonging with people who help without being asked, challenge you, and have your back.

At the same time, we expect you to invest in the people around you — not just your own work — to make the group stronger than the sum of its parts.

An environment of trust

As a company of innovators, we know how crucial autonomy is in your work. When we hire you, we trust in your expertise, giving you space to organize your tasks, work flexibly, and make your own calls.

At Materialise, we expect you to deliver on that trust and keep your commitments.

A career ready to build

When you see opportunities for your career to grow a