Enterprise Architect

Do you want to drive the architecture behind STARK Group’s digital transformation? (Viby J or Cph.)
We are looking for an Enterprise Architect who can translate strategy into tangible architectural frameworks and ensure coherence across our complex IT landscape spanning multiple countries and business units.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As an Enterprise Architect, you play a central role in our transformation journey towards a modern, event-driven, and composable architecture built on best-of-breed solutions. You will take ownership of the enterprise architecture, ensuring cohesion, quality, and scalability across our IT landscape. You translate strategy into actionable principles, roadmaps, and design patterns, and ensure that our Solution and System Architects deliver solutions efficiently, consistently, and with high quality.

You will actively drive results by:

• Establishing and implementing architecture principles and governance models that ensure consistent solutions and predictable delivery.
• Creating platform-independent interfaces, and optimizing processes across systems.
• Modernizing and integration ERP/SAP solutions and defining clear ERP boundaries.
• Help drive and active architecture community, where Enterprise, Solution, and System Architects share knowledge, define standards, and accelerate delivery.
• Driving M&A integrations and legacy system decommissioning, developing strategic roadmaps, and ensuring seamless collaboration between new and existing systems.
• Identifying, evaluating, and implementing new technologies, integrating event-driven design, and ensuring STARK Group prioritizes solutions that deliver real business value.

Your Professional and Personal Profile
You are an experienced enterprise architect thriving in complex, international environments, with deep understanding of ERP, integration, and event-driven architectures. You combine strategic vision with technical expertise and take proactive action to drive transformation forward.

We expect you to have:

• Solid experience as an Architecht in complex, multi-business-unit organizations.
• Deep knowledge of integration patterns, schema/version management, event-drivenarchitecture, and domain driven design.
• Experience with ERP/SAP and modernizing legacy systems.

It is also advantageous if you have:

• Experience with M&A technology due diligence and post-merger integration.
• A relevant degree in IT or Computer Science, preferably complemented by architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF).

On a personal level, you:

• Think holistically, act pragmatically, and take ownership to drive progress.
• Influence and bring stakeholders together across the organization. You communicate clearly and deliver solutions that generate immediate value while supporting future scalability and growth.

Collaboration and Impact
At STARK Group IT, you join an international, fast-growing organization where architecture and technology drive business development. You will have significant influence, working closely with our CTO (to whom you report directly) and other key stakeholders. You contribute to strategic and technical alignment, drive transformation progress, and ensure consistent decision-making. At the same time, you bridge business and IT, ensuring all collaborators work towards a shared goal.

You will also work closely with our other architects, which include another Enterprise Architect, a Domain Architect, as well as Solution and System Architects. Together, you ensure cohesion, quality, and scalability across systems and business units. You act as a sparring partner, coach, and knowledge resource, actively strengthening the team’s overall delivery capacity.

Welcome to Group IT
By joining Group IT, you become part of our digital transformation journey as we replace legacy monoliths and transition toward a modular and flexible integrated setup. Group IT, a dynamic and rapidly evolving part of STARK Group, is responsible for delivering group-wide, business-critical IT solutions. Our goal is to modernize and reimagine the IT landscape to ensure scalability and composability to meet both current and future business needs. We invite you to help us rethink the way things are done in our industry and deliver an extraordinary experience for our customers.

Are you ready to drive the digital transformation and build STARK Group’s technological foundation?
We are happy to answer any questions regarding the position and your opportunities at STARK Group. Please contact Thomas Rosendahl on [email protected] for any specific questions about the role.

STARK Group
STARK Group is a growing private equity-owned company with a solid legacy. STARK Group was established in Denmark in 1896 and has today evolved into a leading European retailer and distributor of heavy building materials with net sales of approx. EUR 9 billion. With a skilled team of more than 20,000 employees and +1,150 branches and distribution centres across the Nordics, Greenland, Germany, Austria and the UK, we live and breathe to equip professional craftsmen with heavy building materials all the way from the Austrian Alps to Tromsø, close to the Arctic circle and everywhere in between. STARK Group is committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2050 across the entire business, is a signatory to the UN Global Compact, and works within fully 2030 validated science-based targets to keep global warming below 1.5°C

At STARK Group IT, we believe in the richness diversity brings. We invite candidates of all backgrounds to join us in creating an inclusive and welcoming environment. We believe in a workplace where everyone can bring their authenctic selves to work.

Agency Policy
STARK Group IT appreciates the interest of all candidates. However, we prefer to directly engage with candidates seeking employment opportunities. Therefore, we kindly request recruitment agencies, headhunters, and third-party staffing services to refrain from contacting us regarding this job posting. All applications should be submitted directly by the candidates through our official application process. We value direct communication and look forward to reviewing your application.
Location: Viby (Group Functions)

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