Head of Enterprise Architecture in Limassol

DESCRIPTION

Our client is a technology company operating in the maritime and aviation sectors, delivering a broad range of technology solutions to support industry operations. On be half of our client we are seeking a Head of Enterprise Architecture.

The Head of Enterprise Architecture is responsible for shaping and overseeing the company’s overall architecture strategy, spanning business, applications, data, integration, platform, cloud, and security. Acting as the senior architectural authority for the organization’s key transformation programme and shared digital capabilities, the role ensures that business and product strategy are translated into clear architecture roadmaps, standards, and reusable design frameworks. It is a hands-on leadership position focused on enabling delivery rather than creating bottlenecks, providing teams with practical guidance, resolving cross-functional design decisions, and maintaining consistency across products, platforms, and systems.

This position is open to both EU and non-EU candidates. Applications from candidates currently based outside Cyprus are also welcome. Although we would greatly prefer you to be based in Cyprus, we support flexibility. Remote work options are fully on the table and will be tailored and decided during the process, depending on your level of experience.

about the role

RESPONSIBILITIES

Mission
To ensure the platform is architected as a coherent, composable, secure, scalable, and data-driven maritime platform, enabling the company to modernize legacy capabilities, accelerate product delivery, and build reusable foundations for future growth.

Operating Model & Decision Rights

  • Owns the company’s enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, reusable design patterns, technology guardrails, and architecture governance model
  • Leads the Architecture Review Board and owns the Architecture Decision Record process, ensuring that significant technology and design decisions are assessed, documented, communicated, and governed. Architecture governance should be lightweight, adaptive, and aligned with agile delivery.
  •  Acts as final design authority for enterprise-wide shared platforms, reusable capabilities, canonical data models, integration patterns, and cross-domain architecture decisions.
  • Within the company’s Product teams remain accountable for product value and prioritization. Engineering teams remain accountable for implementation and technical delivery. Programme Management remains accountable for cross-team coordination, dependency management, delivery governance, and progress reporting
  • The role advises product roadmap prioritization, delivery sequencing, build-versus-buy decisions, technology investment options, and legacy modernization choices, but does not replace Product, Engineering, Security, Operations, or Programme Management ownership

Core Responsibilities

  • Establishes and matures the company’s enterprise architecture function, including its charter, operating model, service catalogue, governance approach, and engagement model
  • Defines and maintains enterprise architecture principles, standards, guardrails, reference architectures, and reusable patterns
  • Owns the target architecture for the platform and its shared platform capabilities
  • Provides architectural direction for identity and access management, vessel synchronization, legacy integration, data foundations, integration hub, APIs, events, cloud/platform services, observability, security, and operational readiness
  •  Defines the company’s enterprise data and integration architecture, including canonical data models, master data principles, interoperability standards, API standards, event standards, metadata, lineage, and data quality and AI foundations
  • Ensures security, privacy, compliance, resilience, and operational readiness are embedded into architecture by design
  • Supports quarterly planning by identifying shared platform enablers, architectural dependencies, sequencing risks, reusable capabilities, and areas where common foundations are required
  • Partners with Product, Engineering, PMO / Programme Management, Data, Security, Operations, and delivery partners to ensure delivery remains aligned to enterprise architecture guardrails
  • Advises senior management on strategic technology trade-offs, including build-versus-buy, low code versus traditional development, cloud-native services, AI-enabled software delivery, integration platforms, vendor products, and legacy modernization
  • Identifies architectural risks, technical debt, duplication, integration complexity, and platform fragmentation, and recommends pragmatic mitigation plans
  • Communicates architecture direction clearly to executive, technical, and non-technical stakeholders.

basic information:

REQUIREMENTS

  •  10+ years of experience across enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, data architecture, integration architecture, cloud architecture, or platform architecture
  • Proven experience defining architecture strategy for complex digital platforms
  • Experience establishing or maturing an enterprise architecture function, architecture practice, or architecture center of excellence
  •  Experience with enterprise low-code platforms (e.g. Mendix), including establishing guardrails for scalable use, designing and integrating low-code solutions into enterprise architecture, and balancing rapid delivery with long-term maintainability and governance would be a plus
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture, preferably Microsoft Azure
  • Strong experience with API-led integration, event-driven and distributed architectures, data platforms, and modern application architectures
  • Experience modernizing legacy environments and integrating old and new technology landscapes
  • Experience operating in agile, product-led delivery environments
  • Strong knowledge of architecture governance, design authority models, standards, patterns, and Architecture Decision Records
  • Ability to translate complex technical trade-offs into clear business recommendations for senior stakeholders
  •  Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills
  •  Ability to balance standardization with delivery autonomy
  • Strong commercial awareness and cost-conscious technology judgment
  • Experience in maritime, logistics, fleet management, ERP, asset-intensive industries, or regulated industries would be highly desirable

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