Who are Valcon: Valcon is a north-western European consulting, technology and data company based in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and even Croatia.
Valcon is private equity backed and in recent years has bought together some of the most exiting companies from these companies to form one of the brightest and most exciting consultancies around.
We're one of the fastest growing companies across Europe and have no plans to stop.
What do we do: Our mission is to combine premium consulting with deep technology and data knowledge to add value to our clients.
The opportunity: Valcon UK is seeking an Enterprise Architect to join our growing IT Architecture capability group within our Technology Practice.
Overview of Technology Practice: We're at the forefront of empowering the future of work, helping organisations of all sizes achieve their goals.
For large enterprises, we eliminate manual labour through automation and intelligent tools, boosting knowledge worker productivity.
Across the board, we build high-quality, performant and user-friendly solutions that leverage the latest technologies to deliver exceptional results for both scale-ups and large companies.
Our Technology Practice has 5 capabilities: IT Architecture Cloud Engineering Software Engineering Intelligent Process Automation Quality Management We are looking for Consultants with the following skill sets: Extensive experience in applying architectural principles to business solutions and working at a senior level taking a holistic view of a business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance.
Work within or across one of the architectural domains; Business, Application, Data and Technology Have experience working on complex digital transformation programmes Ability to recognise structural issues within an organisation, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies.
The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected artefacts and articulate their collective relevance to the organisation and to high-priority business issues.
Experience in visualising and creating high-level business architecture models.
Experience of developing business Target Operating Models (Process, Organisation, Technology, Information) Experience of business capability analysis and the ability to overlay different views to articulate levels of risk and performance.
Experience modelling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques.
Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives.
Responsibilities include: Formulate enterprise architecture solutions for our clients and provide architectural leadership Build relationships with client stakeholders and key business subject matter experts to understand existing business landscape and strategic business priorities Capture tactical and strategic business goals that provide traceability through to metrics that provide ongoing governance Develop an enterprise architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations Apply a structured enterprise architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of an enterprise Translate business strategic requirements into enterprise architecture solutions which align with industry best practice and understand the implications of change on people, process, information and technologies Define strategic core business and support processes that transcend functional and organisational boundaries Identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which resources (people, technology, data) and controls are involved in the processes Identify and assess the business aspects of solution options such as effort, risk, costs and complexity.
Serve as a liaison between business and technology representatives in supporting and leading solution conversations for our clients Advise on the governance structure required for the implementation of business architecture and ongoing maintenance in a business as usual environment Provide mentorship and guidance to others in enterprise architecture, design and analysis About you: Capability in a range of core consulting tools and methodologies Knowledge of domain specific case tools and techniques Strong problem-solving skills both technical and in the positioning of solutions with clients Can communicate business benefits effectively, especially those associated with change Clear communication of basic business and technical concepts, both verbally and in writing Sound facilitation skills Resilient under pressure We offer you: The opportunity to work in a diverse and international environment with an informal culture, with a flat hierarchy, in which we cooperate across business areas and levels.
We care about results, first and foremost.
We care about people and how we can constantly challenge each other to become better.
Your background is less important to us than your ability to create results, to create change.
We prize excellence and ingenuity but know that both have to be grounded in reality.
The reality of making our clients ready for the future.