Contract Enterprise Architect

We are recruiting for a Contract Enterprise Architect for our team in the Netherlands. This role is an immediate start for an initial period of 6 months. You must be based in the Netherlands for the position. Who We Are: AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014. We believe our work should always make a remarkable impact for our clients. We do this through our regional offices (or ‘Clubs’) building strong relationships with our partners, so that they are always prioritised by a team within close proximity. This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK, Europe and the USA with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years. Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap. The Role: The Enterprise Architect aligns engineering with the organization’s enterprise architecture strategy. This role ensures processes are scalable, secure, reusable, and aligned with business goals. It combines strategic planning, technical leadership, and architecture governance to support fast and effective delivery. Core Responsibilities Define and maintain architecture blueprints, standards, and roadmaps. Create reference engineering processes for applications, APIs, integrations, data, and cloud platforms. Lead design authority reviews and guide technology decisions across engineering teams. Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, compliance, performance, and reliability requirements. Collaborate with product, engineering, security, data, quality and operations teams. Mentor solution architects and engineers. Promote best practices across the organization. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree or similar in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field. 8+ years in software development, systems design, or enterprise architecture. Strong experience with: AWS, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, data engineering, security architecture and EA frameworks/tools such as TOGAF. Key Skills Strategic thinking and architecture planning Governance and standards enforcement Stakeholder communication and executive reporting Risk assessment, decision-making, and problem-solving Leadership, mentoring, and collaboration Strong backbone and conflict resolution Key Stakeholders Executive leadership Product and engineering teams Security, data, platform, quality and operations engineering teams External vendors and cloud/service partners Equal Opportunities Statement: We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We actively encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities. We consider all flexible working arrangements, subject to the requirements of the role. Where reasonable adjustments are needed, we will strive to make changes to accommodate them.